Post Archive 

After a recent DDOS to one of the sites I run, I put together a simple Python script to check in on my sites and let me know if any of them return anything besides “HTTP 200” as the response code.

ExpressionEngine’s mechanism for embedding one template in another can be used to speed up your site by munging your CSS and JavaScript files.

Git svn a great tool, but it's not without its limitations. One such limitation is its inability to translate Git submodules into svn:externals. Thankfully, Git offers an alternative that is comparable and plays nicely with Subversion.

I am in the middle of constructing a FTIR table and, until my lasers arrive, I decided to get some output from my iPhone. After all, it’s a great touch screen and a change from building apps in Flash, which I know better.

Nested loops in ExpressionEngine can cause all sorts of headaches, especially when it comes to dealing with "magic" variables like {count}. Thankfully, MySQL can help.

I thought I would post the source for the the Spectrum Analysis tool I created for anyone wanting a quick way to get some data from their favorite tune and perhaps figure out a way to use it in a optimized fashion.

I jumped over from Raphael back to Processing again today and built a visualizer for Twitter data.

Last week I worked up an audio visualizer in Flash for a friend that yielded some nice results; doing the same thing with canvas and JavaScript requires a more roundabout method that is less accurate but more gratifying from a coding perspective.

I took a day to extend the tentacle class to work on 360° and secondary motion from a parent node, but here it is, the first critter for my ocean.