Category Archives: tech

Sandbox Skins

Posted on November 22, 2006 by David Terrell

Keith is leaping into the breach with Sandbox. Welcome. Two tips: The first is that you can use CSS to do the header image without altering the base theme files. The second is that when you do edit your custom … Continue reading →

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DVOA chart

Posted on November 8, 2006 by David Terrell

For those of you into football stats, the killer stat is DVOA (and its friends, VOA, DPAR, PAR, and DAVE). It’s nice to be able to look at DVOA on a graphical basis, so I cranked out some javascript using … Continue reading →

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All Atom, All the time

Posted on November 3, 2006 by David Terrell

RSS is a crappy spec, so this blog is now 100% atom. And instead of serving up the same feed on a half dozen different URLs, I’m now redirecting all the feeds to /feed/atom. Dang ole feeds.

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boost::bind makes my brain hurt

Posted on October 24, 2006 by David Terrell

why? typedef … K; typedef std::map<k , HANDLE> map_type; map_type map_; … std::for_each(map_.begin(), map_.end(), boost::bind(&map_type::value_type::second, _1)); // this works std::for_each(map_.begin(), map_.end(), boost::bind(WSACloseEvent, boost::bind(&map_type::value_type::second, _1))); // this barfs inside boost::bind … incomplete type

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wordpress, css, and images

Posted on October 17, 2006 by David Terrell

So, a while back I switched from using a hand-written (in PHP) theme to using this awesome little piece of code that generates a semantically useful page that can then be CSS styled. On another site still under development, I … Continue reading →

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Javascript IDE

Posted on September 19, 2006 by David Terrell

Jon Henning points out Aptana, which looks to be a pretty slick, free, javascript IDE. Definately on my list of things to check out.

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WordPress + Atom 1.0

Posted on September 12, 2006 by David Terrell

Atom is better than RSS. Much much better. WordPress, however, only supports the sucky old deprecated Atom 0.3. So, you should use this plugin to change your wordpress blog to serve up only Atom 1.0 (and no RSS whatsoever). It’s … Continue reading →

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Changing Habits

Posted on July 23, 2006 by David Terrell

Well, I’ve been at my new job for a week and it’s ok so far. One of the major changes it’s brought about in my life is that I have to be there between 7:30 and 8am. If you’ve spent … Continue reading →

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webpy and authentication

Posted on July 5, 2006 by David Terrell

I’ve been using the development (0.2 version) of web.py to develop my own web gallery. So far it’s pretty awesome. I miss inheritance from Cheetah’s templates but otherwise everything has worked really well. One thing that doesn’t really exist is … Continue reading →

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WordPress Widgets

Posted on May 19, 2006 by David Terrell

I redid the sidebars here with wordpress widgets. Pretty cool.

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