Oct
31
2002
I finally did it. Wrote my own useless binary converter. I had a few nudges from Kindler Chase and grabbed an idear or two out of his head, and came up with my own. Have fun :)
October 2002
24 posts
Oct
27
2002
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Oct
26
2002
It's time for Dan's birthday, so let's make a mess!
What do you say we give him a nice CMS?
We'll fill it with snippets and columns that sort,
All for FAQ-Man (You know- Dan Short!)
--
Bill Horvath
*This poem is © Bill "The Pill" Horvath, and it's usage outside of this blog means you're in big trouble mister...
Oct
25
2002
Who the heck invented those elliptical torture machines at the gym, huh? All I've gotta say is they should be put away...
Oct
22
2002
I can't understand a word they're saying, but it still sounds damn good...
Oct
21
2002
For those of you that have been watching the development of my blog, I just wanted to let you know it's on hold for the moment. I have quite a few book deadlines, and those come first. So once the book is complete I'll be able to hit this again, and will probably be a bit more enthused with it.
Oct
18
2002
Oct
18
2002
The DWfaq Date/Time Format Suite is for sale. Buy it for my birthday (you can keep the suite, I'll take the payment), for your geek's Christmas present or just for the heck of it. Whatever you do, you should definitely buy it (should I be a car salesman?). More info at the DWfaq Store, including screenshots and demos.
Oct
16
2002
Disclaimer: I have nothing against the French in general, I *love* their fries.
Oct
16
2002
Angela has sent the Server Formats suite out to our beta testers, so hopefully things will be ready for release soon. You can find some more info and screenshots at DWmommy.com.
Oct
14
2002
I've informally confirmed a new book deal. I'll be co-author on a new book due out some time about some thing (NDA and all that). This time I'll have my name on the front cover. More details will be provided here once I'm able to release more information :-).
Oct
12
2002
That's right, I'm almost the big 27. If you have an overwhelming need to buy me something, you can check out my Amazon.com WishList :).
Oct
12
2002
It's an explosive combination I tell ya. Jay has just finished his first major database driven site, Bear Creek Baptist Church.
Oct
12
2002
Nothing like a good Army of Darkness movie to start the day :)
Oct
11
2002
I made the style changer ASP driven, so no more funky flashing :~)
Oct
11
2002
In the process of putting together my blog, I've come up with quite a few functions for manipulating dates. This includes find the start and end of a week that contains a particular date (for the archives and such) as well as quiet a few others.
Oct
8
2002
Oct
7
2002
I'm back from Seattle, and this time the only thing I left was Kris :). She's leaving for the week to visit her sister in Iowa, so I have the place to myself for a week. Hopefully I won't trash it too much. I also finally got all of the pieces to finish our entertainment center, so I'll be posting pictures of that for the fam before too long.
Oct
7
2002
I added a bit more functionality to the calendar, disabling the forward and next links if you've reached the end of the posts. This prevents someone from going all to the way to Jan 2003 or back to Jan 2001 if there in fact, aren't any posts there.
Oct
4
2002
You can now filter posts by Category on the blog. You can have any number of categories, a post can be assigned to multiple categories, and you can completely disable a category (this doesn't disable the posts, but only keeps the category from showing up in the nav).
Oct
4
2002
There will be no harassing of Dan this weekend, as I'm about to leave for Seattle, where the weather is cold, and the dialups are slow :)
Oct
2
2002
I refuse to do any more work today. I mean, what good is it really doing me? My wrists hurt and my brain is fuzzy (not enough caffeine I'm guessing) so I'm spending the rest of the afternoon doing.... something. I don't know what yet. After I do """something""", Kris and I are going to go see "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". Hoping it's good and will give a me a laugh or two. Fair to middling review to be posted some time after I get back (maybe next week).
Oct
1
2002
Here are some screenshots of the admin area of the site.
Oct
1
2002
I found a freebie calendar script on ASP101 that didn't have any database connectivity, and hacked it up to add my own. I was having issues with any solution that already had a database attached, as their db schema was different than what I was using. Ended up being easier to add my own hooks in there.