Category Archives: Coding

Card games in the classroom…

Posted on 2007/11/25 by chris

So I’ve been criticized before for having my computer science students play poker in class. I usually have some type of card game in my beginning level programming classes I teach. Blackjack, poker, or some other card based problem/simulation/game is … Continue reading →

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New Year Larger Projects

Posted on 2007/04/20 by chris

So last time I wrote an entree I was in the middle of a very large project at work. It was pretty big… big enough to end up in Wired magazine. It was weird seeing my work as a published … Continue reading →

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Google Video Redone…

Posted on 2006/08/04 by chris

Check out the results of a recent project I am working on.

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PHP filter XSS

Posted on 2006/01/13 by chris

Every web programmer has their own way of dealing with XSS but here is an interestingly simple way to deal with XSS attacks. function filter_xss($oValue, $sValidCharacters = “1234567890!@%-_=+:,./abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”) { for($iCounter = strspn($oValue,$sValidCharacters); $iCounter < strlen($oValue); $iCounter = strspn($oValue,$sValidCharacters)) { $oValue[$iCounter] … Continue reading →

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An Image is Worth a Thousand Words in PHP…

Posted on 2005/12/15 by chris

An Image is Worth a Thousand Words and in this case that might be very true. How interesting would it be to see all your photos with a text filter. Now you can. These articles seem well written and appear … Continue reading →

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Stored Procedures and Logic

Posted on 2005/11/07 by chris

Discussion From Work… Here are just a few articles to back up my statements that the logic _should_ stay out of the database. If you have some feedback you want to provide I’m always open and can be swayed to … Continue reading →

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OS X – PHP 4.3 & 5.0 – FreeTDS – MSSQL 7.0

Posted on 2005/05/06 by chris

I have been using a package from http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/ to get an up to date version of PHP for OS X Server. I really like the package and it’s options work great and do an excellent job of keeping up to … Continue reading →

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Progress Bar…

Posted on 2005/03/06 by chris

So, I’ve been a little busy at work. Let’s just say with Chris passing on, someone leaving the company, and sort of new hire(3 almost 4 months) out with back problems… my life has been nothing but boring. It’s great … Continue reading →

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Rant II

Posted on 2004/09/16 by chris

Note: In response to a PHP discussion in a wiki. Please consider the follow: There are certain programming languages created to serve certain purposes. Just as there are certain color, styles, and types of automobiles to suit your personal needs. … Continue reading →

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Blogging

Posted on 2004/06/09 by chris

I find this blogging to be rather interesting. I would like to take this post to express a quick look at what it has done to the online community. First off I have noticed a lot of people or reading … Continue reading →

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