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October 24, 2006

XAMPP!

I found this way cool open-source project called XAMPP. It's an all-in-one bundle for Windows of Apache, MySQL, and PHP - so no more live testing on the web site

Posted by Craig at 1:11 PM |

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Automation Part 1

This week I'm starting in on a long put off project - the full automation of picture and blog publishing. I love Picasa and so I am going to a make a go of leveraging it, but I'm not sure if that will work out. My first step is the full automation of the insertion of a Picasa-exported HTML page into my pictures database. A while back I moved my pictures solution from being text-file based to being MySQL based, and have been slowing building a up a web admin page where I can backup, restore, add, edit and delete photosets from the database. However, I still had to manually tweak the HTML of each photoset to link it to its previous and next ones. Today I hope to finish it (started it yesterday). Then the BIG leap is to build a combo photo publishing/blogging tool. Hence the short term fix!

Posted by Craig at 12:11 PM |

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October 22, 2006

21st Century, Here I Come

Well, I'm biting the bullet and going to see if I can join the 21st century... I just ordered the following books from Amazon:

  • "Professional Ajax (Programmer to Programmer)"
  • "Learning PHP and MySQL"
  • "Hacking Movable Type (ExtremeTech)"
  • "Professional JavaScript for Web Developers"
  • "Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional "
  • "Ajax and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications"

Time to dust off the old brain and see if it can learn new tricks.

Posted by Craig at 7:49 PM |

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October 20, 2006

I'm BAAAACK

Between maintaining my blog at work and maintaining my family blog, this blog has been sadly neglected. But I'm going to figure out a way to have this blog be my primary blog, instead of a behind-a-firewall blog.

I'm in Seattle this week wrapping up some stuff with my team here, but I can't wait to get back - after a year and a half of waffling, I bought a Nikon D2Xs along with the newest flash (SB800) and two new zoom lenses Nikon recently introduced (18-135mm and 18-200mm). We've had a two Nikon SLR's for a while - the D50 (small and portable) and D1X (large but better pictures). I bought the Nikon D80 just last week to upgrade the D50, and finally said "what the heck" and ordered the rest of our upgrades this weekend. I can't wait to start taking pictures this weekend!

Posted by Craig at 10:49 AM |

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