Archive for the 'Computing' Category

PHP Pagination with a Collection Class

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Recently in my work I had begun using some of the code offered from WROX’s Professional PHP 5 book. Earlier, I even wrote about the UserSession class that I ported from PHP 5 to ASP 3.
It’s been in my experience with WROX’s code that one of the most invaluable classes that I couldn’t live without […]

Sniffing Images Over HTTP Traffic

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Yesterday there was a bit of a discussion over at Slashdot about network sniffers. Someone mentioned a program called etherpeg, for Mac (of about 5 years ago) that sniffed wireless network traffic and displayed collected images. The idea sounded pretty fun, but I couldn’t find anything similar for Windows. What I decided to do was […]

My Own ‘Summer of Code’

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Google has their own Summer of Code, so why can’t I have one too?
I like to try and make the most of my summers, and as much as I like doing nothing in the warm weather, I always like to work on some projects on the side. Inevitably, some of them will be programming-related. I […]

AJAX Auto Suggestion/Auto Complete Textbox

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

I recently created an AJAX-based auto suggestion textbox for a work project so I thought I’d share some code.
I’ve seen examples that used combinations hacked-up select boxes and multiple DIVs. However, I think I came up with a fairly good solution using nothing more than a textbox and an empty HTML DIV.

The HTML
As usual, pay […]

Reliable User Session class for ASP 3

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Recently at work I had ported over in ASP a very good, and very reliable user session class written in PHP 5. The original class came from the code download of WROX’s Professional PHP5 book. I had been using it for quite a while beforehand and it’s been nothing but a time-saver, so I decided […]

Free, Essential Web Development Tools

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Because I know I’m always looking for new things to make my own web development easier or simply better, here is my collection of free web development-related tools that I probably couldn’t live with out:

Firefox
This is so obvious, but essential. Not just as a web browser, but as a tool in itself. My general design […]

Open Source… straight outta’ Ontario: The Linux Guitar Project

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

I just came across a very interesting project out of Port Perry, called the Linux Guitar Project. The project is pretty much what it sounds like: an “open source” guitar that utilizes Linux, and it’s primary goal is to offer both hardware and software built-in to the guitar for recording and practicing. This is definitely […]