Monthly Archives: February 2010

I’m a DMOZ editor

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 27, 2010
A few years ago I became an edi­tor on DMOZ. The cat­e­gories I chose were pretty sta­tic, so even­tu­ally my account got deac­ti­vated because I wasn’t using it. But I recently got re-excited about being able to edit the direc­tory, so I’ve got­ten my account re-activated and I’m back in busi­ness! Maybe after a week or so [...]
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Making Eclipse for PHP Useful

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 25, 2010
Out of the box, Eclipse for PHP is lack­ing a few vital features. Prob­lem: How do I run SQL queries in Eclipse? Solu­tion: The SQL Explorer plugin. To install: Go to Help->Install New Soft­ware. Add a new site called SQL Explorer with the URL http://eclipsesql.sourceforge.net/ Select SQL Explorer. Keep­ing click­ing Next/Finish until the plu­gin is installed. Prob­lem: Okay, I can run some queries [...]
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Jumbo Jenga: It is finished!

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 21, 2010
After nearly 2 months, my jumbo Jenga set is fin­ished! I would have fin­ished sooner, but it kept snow­ing and/or being below freez­ing nearly every week­end for weeks. I rubbed the fin­ished blocks with some min­eral oil to pro­tect them stains and split­ting, and it had the ben­e­fi­cial side effect of mak­ing them look amaz­ing! And they [...]
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What is my IP?

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 18, 2010
This past week­end I found a fun domain name for a project: ipaddr.es. Yeah, it is miss­ing an “s” at the end, but I think it is still a fun domain. So I threw up a “what is my IP” style page and am hav­ing some fun with it. What makes IP Addr.es bet­ter than the com­pe­ti­tion? A [...]
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Oracle rocks!

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 13, 2010
Cur­tis, an Ora­cle employee, con­tacted me a week or two ago to ask for per­mis­sion to use data from the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor at Ora­cle. I freely license the data under both a Cre­ative Com­mons license and the GPLv3. While these licenses are won­der­ful licenses for peo­ple work­ing on open projects, they leave a bit [...]
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I made it!

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 8, 2010
I made it! I’ve hit my earn­ings goal for Cor­ban Works! Back in March 2009, I decided I’d start track­ing my online earn­ings, and set a goal for where I wanted to be. My gross earn­ings at the time were about $160 per week with all my sites run­ning off of a shared host­ing account. I [...]
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PIC Code Site

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 6, 2010
When my wife leaves town, I like to spend my time work­ing on web­sites. With her out of town check­ing out Rice Uni­ver­sity, I put some time into a project I’ve been mean­ing to do for a few months. A while back I found this site, a very old school ghetto PIC/CIC search site. Hav­ing had [...]
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Unemployment negotiations

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 3, 2010
On Tues­day night, my wife and I dis­cussed my unem­ploy­ment. Don’t worry, I’m still hap­pily employed. The prob­lem is: I don’t want to be! My goal for a long time has been to make enough money from my own busi­ness to be able to quite my day job and work from home full time. My wife is [...]
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PHP: mysql or mysqli?

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 3, 2010
As you may know, I’ve been spend­ing a lot of time try­ing to make the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor as fast as pos­si­ble. I’ve started using a CDN, I’ve made minor code tweaks (like doing ++$i instead of $i++), added APC caching, and a bunch of other stuff, but still feel that the core of the [...]
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