Category Archives: Geek Stuff

GUI Programmer Compliment?

I thought this little exchange between a coworker and myself was funny: Mike: i don’t know how you front end guys deal with all that stuff, it’s like you gotta be a coder and hand write .docx files at the … Continue reading

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Easy Object->Array Conversion in PHP

Are you ever working in a “mixed environment” where some things (like the Simple XML Element) return objects and some things like to work with arrays? If so, there’s a really easy way to convert all those objects into arrays … Continue reading

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Hard Drive Benchmarking

I’ve been playing a lot of Minecraft lately. I host my server out of my closet at home on a little 1.66 GHz Intel Atom CPU with 2 GB of DDR2. Whenever the hard drive starts getting hammered, you can … Continue reading

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Directory junctions, Symlinking, and DropBox

Sometimes applications will not let you choose where to put their stored files and settings (for game saves, profiles, etc). But, sometimes you’d like to synchronize those directories outside of DropBox without changing the “root” of your DropBox folder. In … Continue reading

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Virtual Graph Paper

I’m a geek. I know this. And it is because of this that I want things like “virtual” graph paper. And I want it online. And in a browser. So, after impatiently shrugging off the first page of Google search, … Continue reading

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iTED released in Apple app store

Finally! It only took 6 days, but Steve & co. approved iTED for the Apple app store. Either I did well, or the process isn’t as nightmarish as everyone makes it out to be. If anyone is interested, you can … Continue reading

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Announcing: Munkee’s Git Admin

I finally broke down and built a simple git admin web interface. I didn’t want to have to keep paying for more private GitHub repositories when I could (almost) just as easily host my own. I didn’t want to have … Continue reading

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Announcing: iTED

Earlier this week, I finally released my iTED application for Android OS devices. The iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc) version is still waiting for review with Apple’s app store. You can see more at www.ited.mobi. From the iTED web site: iTED … Continue reading

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Announcing: TED_PHP

Another set of PHP scripts written for myself that others may be able to take advantage of. From the README introduction: This is a PHP class to hopefully make writing PHP applications to consume “The Energy Detective” (TED) API a … Continue reading

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Announcing: Tarsnap Monitor

It’s really nothing too special other than it’s handy (for me at least), and my first public project on GitHub. However, if you use Tarsnap and love to use stats and/or are excruciatingly paranoid about running out of money on … Continue reading

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