US Economic Crisis – How I am Losing Everything
This is a story that starts back in December of 2008. I had been working at a fortune 500 company for just over 2 years, I can’t release the name of the company nor the names of the people there because I signed one of those don’t sue us here is some money letters. Anyway [...]
A Migration Story – Windows to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
So, you have decided for one reason or another to give up Windows and switch to Linux. One of the problems is that most people don’t know how to accomplish this and those who do understand have already done. Human nature dictates that most people, once they learn how something is done become sensitized as [...]
PCLinuxOS 2009.1 – Radically Something But What, Simple?
I certainly make no secret that my favorite Linux Distro is Ubuntu, but I felt compelled to give PCLinuxOS another shot. Before I get to PCLinuxOS 2009.1 let me tellyou a little about PCLinuxOS 2007.x. About, two years ago a college of mine convinced me to give PCLinuxOS a try. OK, he did not have [...]
A Viable Alternative to Microsoft – Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), is just one of the many Linux flavors out there today that can run the software your business needs to run its day to day operations. If there are so many flavors out there why choose Ubuntu, simple in my opinion they have the best online community, they tend to [...]
PHP – A Template Class with Simple Parser
It is actually very easy to create a Template system in PHP. Just about every CMS system out there uses some sort of template system. There will come a time that every developer, for one reason or another will need to create their own template system. What I have decided to do is create a [...]
PHP – Manipulating Files
Now I know there are a hundred and one tutorials on how to manipulate files with PHP, but I have to write this tutorial for no other reason than to practice writing. You see I aspire to perhaps write a book or two about programming on the web and well, I am going to need [...]
PHP – Stack and Queue
I have been ask on more than one occasion by beginners in PHP, especially those fresh out of college or those still in college, how would I do a stack and queue structure in PHP. Well the truth is that PHP has built in functions to manipulate arrays as though the were either a Stack [...]
PHP – Simulating Two Handed Card Shuffle
I decided that I would write a tutorial on how to simulate a two handed card shuffle on a deck of cards. Yesterday I wrote this in JavaScript here, today I am porting this to PHP. Most of us know what a two handed card shuffle is, and most of use this method to shuffle [...]
JavaScript – Simulating Two Handed Card Shuffle
I decided that I would write a tutorial on how to simulate a two handed card shuffle on a deck of cards. Most of us know what a two handed card shuffle is, and most of use this method to shuffle cards. To explain for those of you still not sure what a to handed [...]
The Decline of America as We Know It!
It is certainly apparent if one turns on the news that the United States is no longer in the same political position it once was. The United States was formed as a Democracy with a capitalistic economy, and you will find very few people who will argue against this point. Today however there are many [...]
