Archive for the ‘Code’ Category
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
The PDF toolkit is command line app for manipulating PDFs. I use it to split faxes received in Hylafax into one file per page. I recently upgraded a server to x86 64 Fedora Core 9 and found that all of the precompiled versions of pdftk wouldn't work. I tried to ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
I've decided to learn flash. I don't know why, I don't know what I am planning on using it for, but I am going to do it.
Here is some example code I wrote up to play around with, it can read in XML outputted from a PHP script and display ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
This function will dynamically create a jpeg from the string you provide. It even handles multi-line strings.
function str_to_jpg($str, $file) {
$lines = explode("\n", $str);
$number_lines = count($lines);
$image = imagecreate(1000, ($number_lines * 16));
$background = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
$text = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I acquired an Alpha LED sign in a '$1 it's broke' Ebay action. Using my undergrad EE skills, I replaced the fuse and had a working sign.
[singlepic=193,700,440,,]
(Also note some of my totally awesome collection of Internet Appliances)
Thing is, I have nothing to use it for. I was going to make ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Craig Russell updated Dibrova to work with modern compilers, sweet!
Dibrova was built on a RedHat 5 system back in the day, apparently the code wouldn't compile with newer versions of GCC. Craig was good enough to fix that and send me his changes. Viva la open source.
http://thevedic.net/mud/new/
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
// type is the dropdown that controls what get displayed.
// folder_drop, radiologist_drop, and resend_box
// get displayed based on the selected value of type.
// This mapping is done in the if/else statements.
// The first time is for when the page loads,
// the second time is when type changes.
//
// The ...
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