Here are some pics of (e:matthew) from yesterday at the park.
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09/20/2005 01:55 #32246
The rest of the dayCategory: school
The rest of the day I was at UB working on stuff with Josephine. I really like her. Although she said she is not very social I find her fun to be around. I think the VR site is finished. Now I need to just punch it through the VPN. We also began plans on the Buffalo Memory Engine which will be my next major project. Don't worry (e:strip) I will never leave you behind.
Here are some pics of (e:matthew) from yesterday at the park.
Here are some pics of (e:matthew) from yesterday at the park.
09/20/2005 01:53 #32245
Buffalo Rising RisesCategory: buffalo rising
I spent the evening helping Buffalo Rising 
get their website up and and running so that it would be ready for the official launch on Monday. Here you can see the counter on the front page that I put up.
I also created a custom WBFO NPR RSS feed parser for the site which is based on moveable type. I am not a big fan of moveable type which is perl based. Too bad Jesse wasn't there. I just fixed everything with PHP mods. I just don't understand why everyone uses prebuilt CMS systems. Especially other programmers. There is just way too much overhead and I would rather spend my time programming than reading through the million page manual of some else's API. I seriously would go nuts working on a project like that full-time. It was so frustrating to want to make a change to the underlying system but only having access to the very surface through some sort of gui web interface. I like more direct access to my stuff.
At one point zack had to read a 104 page manual to set up an ad server. I could make one in less time than it would take to read through that manual. Maybe I should focus my time on making a CMS system.
I also fixed the search tab javascript. It was a sucessful evening that will hopefully pay for my cell phone bill which is way over my budget thanks to the million and a half fees from cingular. they promised a bill of $44.99 but the first month it came to $111.00 with setup fees and service charges. What a ripoff.
Little did I know that I would be near a dog. For some reaosn even in its mega fluffiness this dog did not make me very allergic.
Here is George and Zack working hard on a plugin.
Here is one of my student's Mike looking very tired after a 16 hour day. I tried to tell him that was the life of a programmer.
get their website up and and running so that it would be ready for the official launch on Monday. Here you can see the counter on the front page that I put up.
I also created a custom WBFO NPR RSS feed parser for the site which is based on moveable type. I am not a big fan of moveable type which is perl based. Too bad Jesse wasn't there. I just fixed everything with PHP mods. I just don't understand why everyone uses prebuilt CMS systems. Especially other programmers. There is just way too much overhead and I would rather spend my time programming than reading through the million page manual of some else's API. I seriously would go nuts working on a project like that full-time. It was so frustrating to want to make a change to the underlying system but only having access to the very surface through some sort of gui web interface. I like more direct access to my stuff.
At one point zack had to read a 104 page manual to set up an ad server. I could make one in less time than it would take to read through that manual. Maybe I should focus my time on making a CMS system.
I also fixed the search tab javascript. It was a sucessful evening that will hopefully pay for my cell phone bill which is way over my budget thanks to the million and a half fees from cingular. they promised a bill of $44.99 but the first month it came to $111.00 with setup fees and service charges. What a ripoff.
Little did I know that I would be near a dog. For some reaosn even in its mega fluffiness this dog did not make me very allergic.
Here is George and Zack working hard on a plugin.
Here is one of my student's Mike looking very tired after a 16 hour day. I tried to tell him that was the life of a programmer.
09/19/2005 01:34 #32243
fowler'sCategory: food
(e:lilho), (e:mike) and I went to fowler's and it wasn't very yummy, not to mention they were out of both chocolate icecream and rootbeer pop.
While we were sitting there eating we saw (e:drchlorine) on his way to buy cigarettes.
While we were sitting there eating we saw (e:drchlorine) on his way to buy cigarettes.
09/18/2005 14:01 #32242
If you haven't seen Helmut LottiCategory: music
If you haven't seen the PBS special with Helmut Lotti, you are really missing the best in russian folk music. He is pretty freakin hot.
Luckily, he doesn't just do Russian music.
He has a latin hits album, a pop song album and many others.
His web site sings to you I wish I had the Helmut Lotti version of Kalinka. I think I might do a Helmut Lotti (e:radio) show.
If you don't know the Kalinka song, here is the midi version. It makes me want to play tetris. We played it at the party last night.
Luckily, he doesn't just do Russian music.
He has a latin hits album, a pop song album and many others.
His web site
sings to you I wish I had the Helmut Lotti version of Kalinka. I think I might do a Helmut Lotti (e:radio) show.If you don't know the Kalinka song, here is the midi version. It makes me want to play tetris. We played it at the party last night.
Thanks for helping them out, I definitely appreciate them as a source of independent journalism and opinion here in Buffalo. I go to their blog page sometimes, it seems like a good group of people. I'm glad to know that someone with experience is working with their site. bad design kills me.