:Programming Czar

Added a new plugin to do syntax highlighting for code.

Here is a test for some php code.

$echo "test";
 
$theArray = json_decode($theData);

If you want to find out more about the plugin you can go to

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/

Or you can find more out about GeSHi (the php script that actually does the highlighting that powers this plugin) by going to

http://qbnz.com/highlighter/index.php

***UPDATE***
Of interest, don’t include the <? in the code or all your PHP code gets removed.

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Just putting together a list of sites that I have found with some free fonts. They are great to have around for when you want to come up with something different for a logo, navigation or header. Enjoy.

http://www.dafonts.com/

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/tallys.html

http://www.formfett.net/?p=42

http://graphicleftovers.com/fonts/page/1/

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Well the talk went. The whole time in my head I’m telling myself to talk slower but it didn’t really work. Turned a 50 minute presentation into 30 minute one. And unfortunately not enough questions to fill more time. I have some things I will add to the presentation for when I give it in October at HighEdWeb 2008 that came about from questions. Actually showing off the graceful degradation concept will be the big thing. Other then being too fast I think the talk went okay. Hopefully it will get easier over time. It’s hard giving a talk though to such a diverse group of people (position wise.) I would guess it was 1/3rd developers and 2/3rd manager/pr types and it’s hard to really hit both because you don’t want to get to technical but at the same time you aren’t getting technical enough. HighEdWeb seems like it will have the more technical side of the coin which I’ll try to adjust the presentation more to next time around. And maybe I’ll get more laughs from some of the geek humor I threw in.

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Here are the slides for my presentation today. Hope you enjoyed it if you saw it.

Slides

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Well just made it through the first day of eduWEB 2008. Just putting the finishing touches on my slides for tomorrow. I’ll be talking about AJAX and how we used it on our athletics site. Will be interesting, being it’s my first time talking at a conference.
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TechCrunch has an interesting story up about Google here. It has profanity in it but it’s upside down so it must have the opposite effect.

˙looɔ ʎʇʇǝɹd ʇɐɥʇ ʇ,usı

What this is a perfect example of is that you can never trust the data given to you by the client, EVER! Unfortunately most people don’t know that this was even possible (including myself until I saw this.) Now while being able to put in upside down text may not seem like a huge issue this can allow things to get around filters that were setup (say for profanity) or possibly allow for injection type attacks.

So this is just something good to know is out there as a possibility, cause we all know “knowing is half the battle!”

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A new site for Web Development tutorials is out there called NETTUTS. Seems like it might be interesting so check it out.

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Well it looks like I am moving back to blogging here instead of the other location so I will be moving a lot of my old posts back over here.

Not that anyone is subscribed to this at this point anyways but this will be back up and going now with new stuff.

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Well realized I hadn’t posted anything lately so I figured I should do an update.

Been playing a lot with Flex and can’t wait to get some real work done with it. Played around and got it talking to a Database through PHP and that was cool. Been looking at how to skin the apps so we can make some nice looking ones.

Started writing a Groupwise Flex Chat client and hit a pretty big road block. The issue is when making the login request to the server they want you to identify the local port you assigned to talk to it (which is stupid since the server already knows this information because I’m talking to it from that port) which unfortunately it seems I can’t get that information from the socket. Still poking around trying to find somewhere to get it but no luck so far. This doesn’t stop the project but changes how it would work. Now it would have to talk to a middle man that handles all this stuff which makes it not as “flex”able as I had intended because I was wanting to convert it to an AIR app that people could use from their desktop to connect. Now we could open up the middleman to the outside world to handle this but I really wished for a way around it.

Lately a big thing that’s been taking up a bunch of my time is that we are moving our CMS from Solaris to Linux. This is a big annoyance because the software provider says they support Solaris but it’s pretty obvious they don’t after having them attempt to troubleshot our “Going Live” issue. They said they couldn’t duplicate the issue on an OSX machine????????? We are now looking to move to a Suse machine and the test server I setup on a past dump of the database (running on the same MySQL server on the same Solaris box) and have had no issues. Should be a simple move once we have our live server up and going and the longest part will be waiting on the dns change for the name.

Still trying to figure out what I want to give presentations on next semester. Probably talk about RIA’s and hopefully I hear something that others might want to hear about so we can have talks on it.

Other then that hopefully I’ll catch some tutorials that really peak my interest and I’ll share but been kind of stale lately out there with things.

Have a good holidays if I don’t post before then.

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You can download it here.

I grabbed it just for testing to see what has changed, hopefully it doesn’t break to much.

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