Monthly Archives: September 2009

Swaptree backs down

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 29, 2009
I’m a huge fan of Book­Mooch, an free book trad­ing web­site. The web­site lets you put your old books up for trade. If some­one requests a book, you send it to them at your own expense and receive a credit to get a book from another user. When you request a book from some­one else, [...]
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Review: The Judas Strain

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 29, 2009
Fin­ished read­ing The Judas Strain by James Rollins. I get the feel­ing it is part of a series, but it was an okay read by itself. Just an okay read, you ask? Well, yes… The story line relied on overly dra­matic sadist antag­o­nists, bad sci­ence, and mys­ti­cism. Not exactly what I’m look­ing for in a seri­ous [...]
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The importance of bad code

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 28, 2009
Stum­bled upon a post by Marco Tabini titled: The impor­tance of bad code (or, Word­Press and why I am a psychic) While I’m not sure where the psy­chic part comes in, his argu­ment in favor of tol­er­at­ing bad (ugly) code was pretty good. Essen­tially he states that projects that have lots of bad code in them [...]
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Interview with ABC WJBF-TV

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 28, 2009
So I just fin­ished a phone inter­view with Paige Tucker of WJBF (an ABC affil­i­ate in Augusta, GA). Looks like they just found my Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor site and wanted to do a short piece on it. My guess is the story will be on iden­tity theft or some­thing sim­i­lar, and will prob­a­bly result in [...]
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Merging of JacobAllred.com and zulugrid.com

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 25, 2009
I decided that there really isn’t any rea­son to have dif­fer­ent con­tent on JacobAllred.com and zulugrid.com, so I’ve merged the two together. This has cre­ated a bit of a mess that I’ll be clean­ing up over the next few days, so I apol­o­gize if there are extra pages, cat­e­gories, etc, that shouldn’t be there.
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Thematic Themes

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 25, 2009
I recently found some­thing called The­matic. Basi­cally it is a frame­work, or tem­plate, for mak­ing Word­Press themes. I’ve cre­ated a new theme that uti­lizes The­matic for this site, and will be tweak­ing it over the next few weeks as I learn how The­matic works and what it is capa­ble of.
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StandardWorks.org: Daily scripture reading using RSS

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 14, 2009
Yes­ter­day I spent a good amount of time work­ing on StandardWorks.org. This web­site will (even­tu­ally) pro­vide an easy to use and highly cus­tomiz­able scrip­ture read­ing RSS feed. This web­site will also remain ad-free, forever. UPDATE: Visit http://www.standardworks.org to gen­er­ate a feed with­out hav­ing to do all the crazy­ness below. There are only a few parameters: start: The date you [...]
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unserializer: improved

By Jacob Allred | Published: September 4, 2009
I spent a few min­utes improv­ing the unse­ri­al­izer tool today. So whats new? You can choose to view out­put as var_dump or var_export, in addi­tion to the print_r option that was already there. Added jQuery: Uses Ajax instead of doing a nor­mal form submission. Shows an Ajax load­ing icon when you sub­mit the form, and the out­put box flashes yel­low [...]
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