http://jeremyslade.com web devel and other tech stuff Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:47:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm just getting started using OFC2 to render charts for a project.  I specifically want to include all the data in the initial page load, rather than require another request to the server (the standard way to do it w/ OFC2).  The library provides a mechanism for this, but it ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/10/openflashchart-loading-data-via-javascript/ This is old stuff, but I recently had to re-find this: Change Caps Lock into a Control key: caps_lock_to_control.reg (via johnhaller.com) That's one of the first thing that goes on when I setup WinXP.  I have zero experience with Vista.  I wonder what changes for Win7? http://jeremyslade.com/2009/09/windows-change-caps-lock-into-a-control-key/ I presented CowPotato at the BDNT meetup in Boulder tonight -- it went well except for having no audio for the gameplay video. The crowd seemed to enjoy it all the same. Generated some good laughs, and some good feedback. Too bad I was probably the only ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/09/cowpotato-at-bdnt/ I've been working on CowPotato for Android, with the guys at Froogloid. We're getting close to being done, driving to the deadline for the Android Developer Challenge 2 (Aug 31). Restarting with Java from scratch, OpenGL ES, Android, etc -- there's been a big learning curve to get to this ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/08/cowpotato-game-for-android-beta-demo-video/ I have been enjoying my recent upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04. Suddenly started having sound problems, however -- no idea how/when/why this started happening. But the symptom is that all sound stops, and I just hear static when sound is supposed to be playing. Well I finally found the answer: ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/07/fixed-my-ubuntu-sound-problems/ I have been enjoying my recent upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04. Suddenly started having sound problems, however -- no idea how/when/why this started happening. But the symptom is that all sound stops, and I just hear static when sound is supposed to be playing. Well I finally found the answer: ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/07/50/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="'alibaba' game project for Stanford cs148"][/caption] I'm working on some OpenGL-based games for Android, so I pulled out code for a project I did for a class at Stanford in 2003 -- my first and only game to date.  It was fun to reminisce, and perhaps someone ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/06/alibaba-opengl-game-project-source-code/ I run a pretty simple rails site for pickup ultimate games in Fort Collins, hosted at Dreamhost. For many months, it had been working just fine using sqlite for the database. Somehow in the last few weeks, it developed a locking issue and has just not worked right ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/04/migrating-rails-app-from-sqlite-to-mysql/ At the request of one of my managers, I looked into the possibility of using Outlook to automatically post the contents of an incoming email to a website (an internal group wiki in this case). We previously used procmail to accomplish this task, but now that all email has ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/04/outlook-vba-macro-to-post-email-body-to-the-web/ The Bounder/Denver New-Tech Meetup for february was excellent, glad I was able to attend.  New this month was a live twitter feed for the all things #bdnt.  Evidently the 350-ish people there (only a few of whom were actually tweeting) managed to push #bdnt into the top 5 trending tags ... http://jeremyslade.com/2009/02/boulderdenver-new-tech-meetup-feb-2009/