I’ve been looking for a spreadsheet widget for dashboard for along time, something to quickly blot without loading up a full spreadsheet like open office, excel or numbers. I was thinking of writing my own, but I’ve been trying not to program so much “pointless” stuff and focus on what really matters. This lead me [...]

Just a quick note saying I’ve released a REST library that I’ve been using in some of my work. There currently exits a version in PHP and Java and it signs the POST parameters with a key, so that you can be sure of client authenticity: http://code.google.com/p/randr/

I was writing a program and needed a Java class that would read some text a line at a time but also tell you what the last line seperator was, whether a line feed, carriage return or both. It was written very quickly, and may not be perfect, and it requires a java.io.Reader in the [...]

I spent some time fixing some bugs in my facebook comments wordpress plugin. It uses a lot of regular expressions to scrape data from facebook. Regular expressions can be a real pain to get working, but I recently found this website that helps you test them in PHP: PHP regular expression tester This is also [...]

Ok, so I think A LOT, and I get tons of business ideas and ideas in general. I write them down because its my habbits, and one of the habbits of creative people. I heard a sermon from Mars Hill titled a theology of creativity. It talked about how most people don’t think they’re creative, [...]

Just blogging and saying thanks for everyone that’s downloaded one of my plugins for wordpress. Its made me the 352nd most popular plugin author by number of downloads. http://4webmasters.nicuilie.eu/2008/12/top-1000-wordpress-plugin-authors/