The Colegio de la Purisima Concepcion website runs on my as-yet-still-in-development CMS: Mazungumzo, which is in turn powered by the truly truly wonderful CodeIgniter PHP framework.
Mazungumzo is a Swahili term meaning conversation, and at its core, the Mazungumzo platform is meant to be an enabler for conversation: between students, between teachers and administrators, between [...]
Colegio de la Purisima Concepcion website
Storing a CSV text file into a C Struct
I came across a problem where I wanted to grab some data off a CSV text file (see sample below) and plug it into a data structure, but — and there’s always a “but” — I had to do it in ANSI C. Eyeroll. Doing it in Python would be a snap:
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path = "players.txt"
dbfile = [...]
More practice: sorting
I wanted to try my hand at sorting, this time, because it’s something I never got around to doing in the past. So I quickly whipped up around ten thousand random integers, put it in a text file, and went to work. My first idea was to do a bubble sort, but the idea of [...]
Quick and Dirty Test for Primes
Again, just practicing; this time, on how to determine whether a given number is prime or not. This was actually the first C problem I ever encountered waaay back in the day; I remember failing. Miserably. Anyway, a refresher: in mathematics, a prime number (or a prime) is a natural number which has exactly two [...]
No Fun with Roman Numerals
PHP I can do just fine; and I’m still in awe of the possibilities with Python (I always end up thinking: whoa… you can do that in Python?! Is this a noob thing? Because so many things are just darn easy in Python!). But I haven’t even looked sideways at any C code since 1997, never got over my fear of Java, and the last version of Visual Basic I used was VB4. Oh, and I don’t even know what COBOL code looks like. So yeah, SOL.
Unsilenced Theme release
Unsilenced is a clean, advanced Magazine theme for Wordpress 2.7; it comes with built-in functions and widget support. Unsilenced lets you specify a Category to act as a Magazine; sub-categories will act as individual issues, and will be displayed at random, or depending on the order that you set. For a demo, well, it’s what [...]
53 CSS-based techniques
So I never forget about it, I’m posting a link to 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites.
Technology and Me
SEO, xHTML, CSS and why they shouldn’t matter
Well, to me on a personal level, anyway. I know of people for which it’s their bread and butter. Make no mistake, I think web standards are a good thing. They make a web desinger’s life easier for one thing, and they make surfing the web a more [...]
Gigs Ko To!
… is in beta :) Thanks to Markku for the PHP/MySQL help and patience. If you’re in some way connected to music and have a lot to say, sign up. It’s an online community for musicians and music lovers, by musicians and music lovers.
phpMyGigs
It’s not much, and I’ve been through two revisions already because, well, I wanted more :) It started as just a simple script to post our gigs at, then I added admin features so that other bands (FMD, among others) could use it on their websites, then I thought, why not have more features? Ever [...]
