Wordpress Zen: Social Network Plugins

WordPress Zen: Social Network Plugins

Saturday, March 13, 2010 2 Comments

This is not so much a “How To” guide as much as it is a mild warning to the developers of Social Networking plugins for WordPress. I run another WordPress powered website for Comics In Action, an improv comedy troupe I organize. So, I’ve played around with various Social Network plugins for the various networking [...]

Remote Desktop, JollysFastVNC, Mac and Ubuntu 9.04

Remote Desktop, JollysFastVNC, Mac and Ubuntu 9.04

Saturday, October 24, 2009 No Comments

I’ve been working on my own local Ubuntu 9.04 web server for over a week and finally got all the pieces put together (Apache2, MySQL and PHP). But, what I REALLY wanted was a way to tunnel into my Ubuntu web server and administer it from my old Mac G4 Powerbook.

Java Servlets: Why hast though forsaken me? Part II

Sunday, April 8, 2007 No Comments

Integrating mySQL with Java Servlets is tedious, but at least the GUI is easier to derive. Looks like it works OK, but there are still some java stuff I keep forgetting: Converting String to an Int -> Integer.parseInt(str); OR new Integer(str).intValue(); OR Integer.valueOf(str).intValue(); String to byte[] -> str.getBytes(); byte[] to String -> str.getBytes(); int to [...]

Java Servlets: Why hast though forsaken me?

Sunday, April 8, 2007 No Comments

The current Web Programming project is integrating mySQL with a Java Servlet front-end. This is fine, especially since current Java GUI’s are difficult to create. Doing this through a web page makes MUCH more sense. However, I can’t use cookies to hold some of my session data because my data occasionally contains characters that cookies [...]