http://www.zeptoworld.com My tech playground Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:40:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Overview You will be given the name of someone in the war that you must eliminate by getting them wet. You may get him/her wet by any, non harmful, means you choose – squirt gun, water balloon, hose, cup of water, etc. Elimination means that you are out of the game. ... http://www.zeptoworld.com/2008/08/03/the-12th-war/ What is a Carbide Cannon? As it turns out, if you take some Calcium Carbide and mix it with water, it produces lime (which settles in the water) and Acetylene gas. Acetylene gas is explosive. I'll bet you are already thinking of how to make use of that information. Well, ... http://www.zeptoworld.com/2008/01/29/my-pvc-carbide-cannon-is-a-blast/ I saw a couple of documentaries this week, both of which I highly recommend. New York Doll is about a guy who was in the band New York Dolls in the early 70s. The band fell apart before they made any real money but they inspired a number of famous artists ... http://www.zeptoworld.com/2008/01/27/new-york-doll-and-endless-summer-2/ As you may or may not know, I am a big reader. I read many books each year mostly in the fantasy genre. I recently finished Book 11 of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think that each of the books in the series is between 700 ... http://www.zeptoworld.com/2007/12/05/why-isnt-there-an-index/ In my previous post about writing a PHP Framework I mentioned a script called Tower.php. By using Tower as the single point of entry I can handle authentication and authorization all in one place for any page rendered. Authentication is deciding whether a user has access to the system. This is ... http://www.zeptoworld.com/2007/01/14/writing-a-php-framework-authentication-and-authorization/ I doubt that many of you have ever tried to write your own web tracking software. I mostly did it to see if I could and also to have complete control over my tracker. My wife says I'm a bit of a control freak. Anyway, I posted on it earlier ... http://www.zeptoworld.com/2006/12/17/performance-tuning-my-mysql-database/ I'm not even sure where to start with this topic. I'm thinking that a good place to start is how the users get to the framework. .htaccess htaccess is somewhat of a new thing to me. I have extensive experience in writing a Java Framework using Tomcat and JBoss. The way ... http://www.zeptoworld.com/2006/11/15/writing-a-php-framework/ I have been a fan of the genious of Weird Al since the 80's. Here is an exellent article on the subject Troubadork http://www.zeptoworld.com/2006/10/20/troubadork/ Early this year I was talking to a friend of mine and he told me that he was working on an open source project called xajax. At the time I hadn't really started to play with Ajax yet but the project sounded interesting so I filed it away in the ... http://www.zeptoworld.com/2006/10/07/ajax-with-xajax/ Blogroll Z is a rss/atom feed aggregator. See documentation Getting Started, Configuration, and Add Blogroll Z to your page. Get downloads here. See implementations here and here. http://www.zeptoworld.com/2006/09/28/blogroll-z-version-80-released/