Ladies and gentlemen, today I would like to direct your attention to the new link in the right side bar entitled “Programs and Scripts.” This page will contain handy bits of code developed by myself (or any of my esteemed colleagues) and presented here for your programming gratification!
The inaugural bit of code available here is [...]
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Just to throw out a little plug for Adam and myself, we’re “spinnin’ on the ones and twos” this Friday at the Rookery for downtown Macon’s monthly “First Friday” event. We’ll be playing a smooth blend of rock, rap, old(ish) stuff, and whatever else pleases our auditory palette.
It should go down like a smooth [...]
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But I can’t. Let me explain.
Facebook offers a developer API that allows programmers to use the data stored by Facebook. One of the neat features is called “Facebook Query Language,” and allows you to execute queries on the data provided by Facebook, as if it were a giant database (oh, wait, it is). Earlier this [...]
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This has been a busy but great week. I’ll be back with more detail on some of these events, but I gave a presentation last night (which went really well, and the video and other information will be online soon), helped a friend assemble a new computer today, I’ve been in the gym three days [...]
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I was doing a little searching on Google for some scripting documentation and ran across a funny DNS redirect: http://thesource.ofallevil.com, which points to Microsoft’s website.
Made me laugh.
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On January 16, 2008, I, Matthew Smith, will be delivering a presentation for STC on the use of wikis in collaborative writing projects. This presentation will be based on a shorter presentation I gave for one of my technical communications classes last year. I don’t have the final details on the presentation yet (aside from [...]
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My Grandmother on my mother’s side of the family has been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for several years and has been getting worse over time. For Christmas this year, my aunt decided to create a video montage of old family photographs honoring my Grandmother and give this to my relatives as [...]
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On New Years’ Day, I woke up around 2pm and decided to go skiing. You might call that quite a feat for someone located in the middle of Georgia where the temperatures rarely go below 20F and the snow flurries show up once a decade (sending the good people of middle Georgia into quite a [...]
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