Realm of Zod
Programming and Technology
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mySQL FIFO and Thoughts on Data Posterity
Posted on July 13th, 2011 1 commentI am working on a project that will track the actions of users and store them in a database in order to build an activity stream not dissimilar to Facebook’s news feed. Right away I can see that I am very quickly going to accumulate more data than i can possibly manage using conventional methods [...]
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Digital Trends, WordPress, and Portland
Posted on July 4th, 2011 1 commentIt’s been a long time since I posted. I do this from time to time, where I go months without posting anything to my blogs. I apologize to those who are actually interested in my articles – my lack of proliferation is a combination of both attention deficit as well as the chaos that is [...]
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Site-Related, WordpressRelated Topics
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Google regurgitates it’s policy as “fact” to refute “myths” about it’s anti-net neutrality
Posted on August 12th, 2010 1 commentJust moments ago Google posted this drivel on their official blog. It’s presented as a series of “facts” meant to refute the “myths” about it’s legislative framework for net neutrality. I am astounded that they actually expected to essentially repeat bullet points from their official policy and get a different response from critics of their plans with verizon. I’m starting to feel like google is the fourth branch of government, i’m used to getting this from politicians.
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Is the google honeymoon over? Privacy and net neutrality sacrificed for profit
Posted on August 9th, 2010 1 commentUPDATE: Latest announcements from Google/Verizon posted here: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-proposal-for-open-internet.html I’m still not terribly impressed personally, it reads to me like verizon won’t tamper with land-line traffic (Which is a moot point because they can’t anyway) but in the wireless spectrum all bets are off. So in other words, a bunch of furniture got moved around and [...]
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Portable File Encryption with PHP and Java
Posted on June 9th, 2010 1 commentI had a client project come up recently that required HIPAA compliance which meant encryption was going to be involved. The goal was to collect patient information and then store it in encrypted pdf files so they could be downloaded, decrypted, and entered into another system. It did not sound like the most efficient system however that was the spec I was given. I had never worked with symmetric encryption before although it has always been a topic of interest so I jumped at the opportunity to expand my knowledge of cryptography.
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Cryptography, Java, PHP Cryptography, decryption, encryption, Java, mcrypt, php, security, swingRelated Topics
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How Google Won the Html5 Video Standards War
Posted on May 19th, 2010 No commentsToday google open sourced the vp8 video codec which they acquired when they purchased On2 Technologies which has triggered the largest splash i’ve seen in the internet world in a long time. Everyone knew they were going to do it and there was a buzz of speculation surrounding the rumors of what it would do for current standards war occuring in the web browser market. I, myself, stated some time ago that it could be game changer since it would provide the much needed ‘third party’ standard that was needed to prevent another standards fragmentation for web content.
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Dynamic paths in external javascript and stylesheets
Posted on April 19th, 2010 No commentsBest practices dictate that unobtrusive javascript is king these days which means that all javascript should live in external js files instead of cluttering up the html. Simple enough, however, situations arise sometimes where you need to adapt your javascript for dynamic conditions of the application, most notably, the current base directory where your application lives. If your application is small enough you can just hard code paths to images, other scripts, or internal urls however if you are anything like me, you probably shudder at the thought of hard coding any thing. Take this use case into consideration: let’s say we have an external javascript file called myscript.js which houses all of our javascript for handling click events on ajax powered links throughout the site.
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Silk CMS Progress
Posted on April 13th, 2010 No commentsI’ve gotten some inquiries regarding the status of Silk CMS, the content management system I am developing. Since there is some interest in the project I decided to announce that the google code project page has been activated and that I have committed the project to svn. I don’t want to go too much into the design philosophy here since I am planning a large article on CMS design in general however I wanted to start posting about my progress as it gets closer to a production-ready state. Thanks everyone for being patient. I actually created the google project page some time last year when I had been able to work on it and then there was a huge stint of client projects that bombarded me at eroi so I had to move the project to the back burner for a time. Suffice to say, I never had any intention of letting this project become vaporware and I can guarantee that it will not since I can certainly leverage it pretty effectively at my job.
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Remotely Managing WordPress with PHP
Posted on April 8th, 2010 1 commentWordpress is the ubiquitious platform these days although I hope to change this with the inevitable release of Silk CMS in the next month or so. In my line of work, I tend to have to install many, many copies of wordpress all over the place. Wordpress makes a great platform for deploying niche sets especially and comes with hundreds of plugins that make creating these sites dirt simple. Anyone who has managed niche sites can attest that it becomes quite unwieldy to manage hundreds of websites. It helps to standardize on a common infrastructure for all of them (ie, themes, plugins, etc) however each site needs to be slightly customized to a particular niche. Plugin settings need to be tweaked, headers changed, sublines updated, etc. Uploading wordpress to each host and manually unzipping it and re-uploading everything that is non-stock is one way to go about it but it’s tedious and time consuming. If you happen to host on a hosting service that offers fantastico your job is a little easier but not by much.
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Get Geo Coordinates from Google Maps in PHP
Posted on February 5th, 2010 No commentsGoogle maps offers a rich api for getting a lot of information as you are probably already aware. I’ve written a few locators in the last couple of years involving the use of google maps and doing radial searches based on zip codes. The difficult part for me was getting the geo coordinates of the queried zip code to use as a reference point for doing the radial search. I ended up writing a nice simple class to encapsulate converting zip codes into geo-coordinates.
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