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Furthering the IDE

Well, certainly some good stuff done today including a script to manage .htaccess across the platform; also added a section…

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Using ‘dot’

The last couple of days, I built a series of functions to parse source code which will be used to spit out html markup for use in the custom and automatic documentation. The most difficult aspect of software is that when you walk away from it, you shed the details and just remember the overall intent of…

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Graph This!

With a bit of poking around on the web, I installed graphviz win binaries on my laptop today. After gathering up documentation, turned a dot file into a png! Now I just have to learn dot. Also uploaded the beginnings of my svg cheatsheet. I feel like between MikTex, Cmap, Geogebra, MathJax, Gimp, and…

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Let the Games Begin

Spent the last six hours pounding OOP PHP to generate documents from templates stored in files, embedded in code, and MySQL tables. I’ve gotten a rhythm going for working through the web-based interface I’m using in development, worked out a scheme for file naming, replicating code in the PHP…

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PHP/MySQLi

Well, setting up the basics of an interface to run queries was exceedingly simple, but now to prototype a set of forms for managing URLs. As soon as the basic functionality exists, I’ll rewrite the design in a design pattern to expedite the codebase. Sometimes it gets trippy when you’re looking at code and…

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Specific Principles of Design

Time to get serious about understanding design patterns: ordering GoF’s Design Patterns. While I had bought at one point the publisher’s three volume set on IP stacks back in the days when configuring routers and firewalls was part of my work-related responsibilities, I have…

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End of the First Day

After the first day, I’ve managed to install TinyWebGallery and upload some images. I’ve also installed WordPress and the MathJax plugin and tested it. Lastly, I’ve installed Mantis to manage bugs. Hopefully these packages will meet my needs. Now I just have to learn how to manage them!

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General Principles of Design

Having the ability to twiddle bits as well as install and use software frameworks leaves an engineer with a lot of choices. Essentially, one simply must decide where to draw the lines. Once can choose from OSes, languages, frameworks, and providers and that in itself when…

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The Birth of a PIM

Hello world!!! This is the birth of my personal information management system. As a incorrigible consumer of information, I’m finally undertaking a personal objective of mine which has been floating and sometimes rattling around in my head for years: the implementation of a state-of-the-art…

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Tilting Windmills
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Experiment to blog a computational-centric PIM into existence at http://www.th30ry0fm1nd.com/
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