Mr. JMW

Photography: ugly people 2 by mrjmw

So here’s my newest graffiti painting and I have another one it the works…

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I’m a bit frustrated with my canon sd1000 digital camera. The camera is great but Canon for some (stupid) reason decided to make there own interface to the file system (or maybe it’s just the windows digital camera wizard system thing) rather than have the computer treat the camera like a normal usb drive like other digital cameras do, and the way canon does it, it takes a long time to view all the pictures. If you didnt’ follow any of that, basically canon did something really dumb and the result is that its more difficult for me to get my pics out of my camera. I have some sketches for a new canvas that I started on but they are still on the camera. So I’ll hopefully get those out soon…

(I told you it was just bla bla bla)

Also, I’ve been working on another photos site called PicturesPhotosImages.com it’s been a fun project that I’ll continue to work on and maybe talk more about later.

Take care!

A minute ago, I wrote a post explaining and introducing http://places-to-go.us . Well somehow Wordpress created three of my new posts and managed to created three of the previous latest post. I tried to delete two of each so I would be left with only one of each. BUT what happened instead is that it erase (all three) of the post I just did.
Anyway, check out the above site, it’s my latest project. And know that this is all messed up and I’ll get around to fixing it up sooner or later but it’s not a priority of mine at the moment
Peace!

I was too!

I went to a few different tutorials (Tutorial 1 , Tutorial 2) on how to set it up for an intranet environment, but I couldn’t get it to work.

It seemed like it wasn’t working because IIS wasn’t properly authenticating the user. But when I went to my IIS settings everything was right according to the tutorials…

(Like this…)

Everything was right! But still no luck.

To make a long story short, I found this article and it did the trick…

Forcing NTLM Authentication (IIS 6.0)

Now I can enjoy Windows Authentication in ASP.NET for my Intranet Web App!

I’m looking for a project and I’ve been meaning to make a WordPress plugin and make it available to the community for a while. But I need some ideas. I want to make a great and useful plugin.

Go ahead and leave any ideas in the comments. I can’t promise I’ll do it but if I find the right one I’ll do it.

I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. And low and behold, my host (Dreamhost) offers a one click install source control system called Subversion. Here is a nice tutorial on how to get it set up…

Setting Up Subversion With Dreamhost And Windows

I can’t wait to really start using this!

Subversion on Dreamhost

More Subversion links

To continue the clasifis.com story…

My buddy went ahead and started the company and is working on it as a side project. It is a corporation now and he has a budget to work with from an investor (from what he tells me). I have left the project because I have a full time job now and I’m persuing other side projects.

Yaclasificados.com is the new name and it is no longer powered by the C# / ASP.Net app that we wrote (”clasifis”).

Right now there is no live example of the application code-named “clasifis” but I may implement it under a different domain in the future.

I worked on the application powering guitarcentermerch.com while working at BandMerch.com.

This web application allows you to upload a custom logo (it must be black with a full white background) and place/size it on a shirt and choose the logo color. The overall goal of the project was to provide a web interface to order a one color custom logo silk screened on a tee-shirt.

This was done by one other developer and myself. And it also ties into the native shopping-cart of BandMerch.com. The major parts that I contributed to were the image processing and the work-flow of the pages. The image processing part was done using Java Advanced Imaging and Java’s standard imaging. The work-flow part was done with Javabeans, HTML, and Javascript.

this is just a test of PodPress, it will probably be deleted soon…

Listen now:

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I’m just testing this audio-player plugin …

Audio Player Wordpress Plugin

Listen to some Air Bach… (if it works)

ooo.. that doesn’t sound too great..
Oh well the plugin works great though… I’ll have to put some of the music I made a long time ago on this site…

Feed2JS is a nice little service that helped me get a little job done quickly. I wanted to make my “Visitors” section on the sidebar (scroll up or down maybe, you’ll see it) look like the rest of my site. Blog Flux Mapstats provides an rss feed of my last 25 visitors (the cities) and with Feed2JS I was able to get some code to use the rss. This gave me more control over how the cities appear below.
Don’t know if everyone will understand what I’m talking about here, but anyway…
Thank you Feed2JS

This is a great service for bloggers to track where visitors are coming from (in cyber-space and physical-space). The following link will show you a map of the world and all the locations (cities) from where someone accessed my site (at least the last 25 visitors).

http://mapstats.blogflux.com/12826.html

You can find this link always at the bottom of my side bar. And I know a have “Visitors” section in the sidebar showing the city names of the last 15 unique visitors.
The map is from Google Maps, which is a great map web application example of Ajax (programming).
This is a nice feature for any blog and I plan to add it on my other blog sites. There are more great services that Blog Flux offers for free. If your a blogger, check them out at BlogFlux.com

AJAX is a method of creating more desktop-like web applications. In the future (and even now), many websites/ web applications will act more and more like desktop applications. Google maps is a good example of this… (search for more AJAX Examples ). More and more you will see websites that rival the functionality of desktop applications. This is good, its quick and “on demand” distribution of your application. No need to download and install the application to your hard disk to get the functionality you need. All thats required is a powerful enough computer and an Internet connection. It is a typical thin client (meaning the browser) / server model. Ajax helps balance the processing load between the client and server efficiently. You have the speed of processing locally and the large data store of information via the server.
I found the .NET libraries and I look forward to seeing what I can do with this!
Ajax.NET - The free library for .NET (C#)

I have just become aware of the REBOL programming language. So far it looks like its able to perform high level networking operations with ease.

I’m currently looking into using REBOL to write CGI scripts. Here is the setup info I found…
http://rebol.com/docs/cgi1.html

REBOL Technologies

UPDATE 04/24/2006: This project/web application is no longer live. For the rest of the story, read yaclasificados.com

Clasifis.com is a project a friend and I are working. We met in school and after I graduated, he helped me get a job at MiCasa.com . After I worked there for two months, he left and then I did too. Why? well the owner of that company still owes me a months pay. That is why I left.

So, we were out of work and we started talking one day about project ideas. He had the idea to make a clone of Craigslist.org in Spanish. We started talking about hardware and software schemes we could setup that would allow us to Read the rest of this entry ?

Simple Battery Timer is a little program I wrote sometime during the first quarter of this year (2005). It is basically a utility for timing your laptop’s battery life. All it really does is show you what percentage of the battery was drained over what period of time. It shows you a few more battery metrics, but nothing extraordinary. Also it won’t start timing if your laptop is plugged in and it will stop timing automatically when you plug your laptop in.
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My first ventures with Linux were about 3 years ago (or so) with Redhat 6.2 and Corel Linux. I didn’t get very far. I got them installed, even dual-booting Windows/Linux. But I couldn’t get my sound card setup, ethernet was a problem. And I couldn’t even figure out how to do the RPM thing and install downloadable software. I spent time trying but with little success, so I just stuck with Windows and didn’t touch Linux for a while.

Then, I came across Knoppix. This is a distro of Linux on a Live CD meaning, you pop in the cd, boot up Read the rest of this entry ?