March, 2008
Earth Day - Observations - Ottawa, Canada
Posted March 30th, 2008 by Purazar
As we religiously observed Earth Hour at the Bhadha residence, I thought I'd go for a walk around the neighborhood and see how other people were doing. We turned off the computers, TV, all the lights and had dinner by the candle light.
It was a fairly cold night, so I didn't get a chance to go very far, but from the observations that I did make, I wasn't surprised at the results.
PHP - Installing CURL
Posted March 25th, 2008 by Purazar
Trying to retrieve data from a webpage shouldn't be that hard in PHP, and it isn't. I've been using Curl to do just that. It comes with tons of options and lots of help and references.
SmartFTP - Not so smart anymore - Looking for a new FTP Client
Posted March 25th, 2008 by Purazar
For about 3 years I've been using SmartFTP. Very clean, simple, low resource consumption, and not to mention - FREE!!!
DLink Router 524 - Set Encryption with the broken apply button.
Posted March 24th, 2008 by Purazar
The used DLink 524 that I picked up from usedOttawa for $30 dollars is a pretty good buy. Having used this model before, I knew it was reliable. Decent wireless connectivity, along with all the other regular features like filtering, encryption, VPN and activity logging.
Setting up is a breeze, just plug and play.
One problem that I ran into was of setting up the SSID and enabling wireless encryption.
Movable - Minimize - Collapsable Panel In Adobe Flex
Posted March 23rd, 2008 by Purazar
With all the great functionality that Adobe has built into Flex, I was surprised to find that the default panel that is included don't have a movable/minimize functionality.
So, I thought I'd extend the existing panel and add that in.
There are a few quirks that pop-up, but I'll try and fix those later and post back. As well, I would like to add a resize functionality later on.
Current News Stories - While you were being born!!
Posted March 20th, 2008 by Purazar
I have the same birthday as Winston Churchill, and Mark Twain. Sweet!! Well, kind of. Also, back in the day (in 1983) the a loaf of bread was only $0.54.
I ran across two websites that I found very interesting, and kept me occupied for quite a while.
Day Of Birth - General information regarding the day of your birth, your age, and how long you've been alive for in Days, Minutes and Seconds.
Getting Started with Adobe Flex and Adobe Air
Posted March 11th, 2008 by Purazar
Now that my graduation is nearing, I have started thinking about my honours project. I knew I wanted to study something regarding field of user interfaces, but I wasn't sure how. At first, I was going to do a study on what makes a user interface good vs bad, but that was too easy, and I had already studied that in one of my classes. I wanted to learn something new and I think I may have found that.
It is not a direct study of user interfaces, but rather the direction applications are heading, and the way user interfaces are evolving. Adobe Flex will be a way for me to convey that. Flex incorporates all the aspects of a Rich Internet Application along with drag and drop functionality (Flex builder) that will help speed up my development time.
