Two reasons for my excitement this morning, and I shall sum them up promptly: Lord of the Rings Online content update, and Street Fighter IV. That’s right, you heard it. Street Fighter IV! I LOVED the old Street Fighter games. I grew up playing those in the arcades all day...

Alright, I’m with Ben Nadel on this one… jQuery is PIMP!! I started playing with it, and although I have barely scratched the surface I can tell that this thing is really powerful. As an example let us say that I have a form with a bunch of text boxes...

I ran across an interesting problem today. At work I wrote a Yahoo! Widget that monitors our web servers’ response time and memory consumption. I had made a few updates and enhancements to it and was ready to release it to the engineers here that use it. To do this...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have started learning how to write WordPress plugins. My first plugin is one that removes the word “Private: “ from the beginning of blog and page titles (when they are saved with a status of private). The way this works is by creating a function...

Yay! My main character in Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar just reached level 40! Woo hoo! Soon I shall be a level 50 champion renown throughout Middle Earth! :p

Maryanne, Tabitha, and I went out to Wolfe City, Texas to see my little sister’s performance in her school’s UIL one act competition play entry. The players did well, and it was a $5 well spent, little sister. Here are a few photos from said event. Sadly the photos I...

For those that haven’t seen them, you need to check out the series of commercials for Molson Canadian beer. Funny stuff. Chasing Beaver

Last night was movie night. Again Maryanne and I hosted a movie night starring the classic wacky movie, Beetlejuice. I forgot how fun that movie is. What a blast! Katie and Tim from work made it, as well as friends and neighbors Jeff and Andrea. We played quite a bit...

I made a post recently about using Barbecue barcode software in ColdFusion. In my example I instantiated the CFC object and called the getCode128 function as the source of an image tag. With a bit of experimentation you will find that although this produces an image… that’s ALL it produces....

I was approached today by a coworker about integrating the open source Java-based barcode library, Barbecue, into ColdFusion. He wanted to use this library to prototype a project concept for adding barcode support to certain parts of our application. A little bit of play and here’s how it works. The...