July 22nd, 2009
An interesting technology are Google Page Rank Finders. What they do is discover which result and page number a website is in Google’s search results for a given term.
I thought an interesting implementation would be a completely client side one written in Javascript using Google’s search API. To spoil the ending, after creating this I discovered the API only allows 8 results per page and 8 pages, making this useless if the site is beyond the 64th result, but the API is interesting and powerful regardless.
The finished version can be found at pagerank.red-stars.net with the complete Javascript.
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July 21st, 2009
I had a project which involved raw access to the data stored inside of a System.Drawing.Drawing2D.GraphicsPath and found that the MSDN Document for PathPointType was rather lacking, but it’s not too complex.
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July 16th, 2009
I always like to take backing up into my own hands, and a database is potentially the most important thing on your server next to only the code driving it all, which in nature typically has a local copy anyways.
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July 14th, 2009
It all starts when we first start, at birth. Once separated from mother, we wont be long for this world with out something to eat. Thus starts our relationship with something so universally appreciated, that you’ll be hard pressed to name a culture or a religion that never mentions it, something more important than grade point averages or your car lease, the thing that your body turns into itself, and what has the power to give you a good quality of life, or tear you down.
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