The I.T. Life

The new portfolio site is up at my testing zone and it is looking pretty good. I know it isn’t my work, since it is a existing CMS system, but I really do like it. However, what I have in mind for a full portfolio system, will be much better

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Because I am constantly in need of new entertainment, and playing wow for 4 hours a day isn’t considered productive or educational, I am going to start playing with some new programming areas that I have never touched. Robotics and Game development! Of course, I will take this on a very small scale to start. [...]

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So, right now, my house has 2 servers. 1 physical box, and 1 virtual server. The physical box runs windows server 2003 standard, has IIS, .Net, and Microsoft Server 2005 Express, and svn. It is my .net web server, and my Microsoft sql server box, as well as my file and code repo. It also [...]

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So I finally have made my mind up on exactly how the portfolio system will look, and tonight I am hoping to get into it and finish it. I will not allow multiple portfolios in the same database, that will require multiple databases. I will however have a seperate section for skills, goals, etc. The [...]

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So, I will be the first to admit, I didn’t get 400 photos. I did manage to make 2 road trips, one just me and Beth, the second with our dear friends Jon and Anne Marie. We managed to log over 900km and hit a lot of roads we have never been on before. It [...]

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So, us Canadians, or at least us Nova Scotian’s, have a great 4 day weekend. We have Good Friday, and Easter Monday off. As I mentioned, I was hoping to do some road tripping this weekend, but I am really starting to think this won’t happen. Not really a bad thing, but whatever. I have [...]

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So, the idea of this project got me thinking. I should find a way to display these, in order of capture time. Of course, these will go on flickr but I want something better. I want something that is very slick, and very cool. I got searching and found a php/js library. I will post [...]

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So, the first step to creating all this interwoven goodness, is actually connecting to the big name sites I want to use. Here are the links to there API’s, I will go into more detail on exactly what parts I will be using, and how, once I get a better plan laid out.  C# Del.icio.us [...]

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At NSCC, we covered alot of different languages. VB, C#, C++, Java, and on a self study I did Python, and a bit of Perl. Ive forgotten everything except C#, becuase I use c# for my job. I hate that im forgetting this stuff. I still remember a fair bit of VB because its pretty [...]

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