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PHP: Manipulate Images with GD


I mentioned a personal project I was working on in the Comet: A Primer blog entry. I hate to mentioned my personal projects since I seem to start more than I ever finish. To let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, I am working on implementing a card game in a web [...]

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Ajax Comet: A Primer


Comet is a programming technique that enables web servers to send data to the client without having any need for the client to request it.
In classic AJAX applications, web browser (client) cannot be notified in real time that the server data model has changed. The user must create a request (for example by clicking [...]

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Getting Things Done (GTD): The Discovery


To take a short break from my recent technology research and to indulge my topic A.D.D., I spend the evening reading about ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD). I forward an article to someone earlier this week from Lifehacker, and they asked me “Do I GTD?”. My first thought was “huh?”. Then I asked them what [...]

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PHP: Text Circle


I was messing around trying to create a circle tag cloud that I would later use jQuery to animate the text around the outside of the circle on mouse over events. The base level to this idea was to draw a circle. I graduated college with a math minor and it never ceases to amaze [...]

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Use WordPress functions externally


I did some quick research and was surprised to find how easy it was to add wordpress function to pages that were external to the blog site folder.
Find the path on which your blogs root it, on the path there is a file wp-config.php. This file once reference on your external page opens the WordPress [...]

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