MeetJennings

When he’s in front of people, Ian Jennings Jablonowski, the 20-year-old hacker from New Brunswick, stands over his laptop like a DJ at a club, feet planted far apart and further out than they need to be, back hunched, arms stretched out. He talks fast and has piercings in both ears and in his lip. His pointy black hair looks like that of an anime character, and the straight-brimmed black hat that sits carefully askew on top of his head does not come off.

Check out the full article here.

I am continuing development on my first place alarm clock hack from last weeks HackNY contest. Although still in-the-works, the app will be a full featured version of what you saw at the demo.

I’m going to be presenting the first public version of the app at next months NYTM on November 2nd. If you’d like to stay in the loop, just follow me on twitter.

I figured out why 22Pixels has been loading extremely slow over the past few months. It had to do with some extremely inefficient tag queries, something I should be able to clear up within the coming weeks.

My initial move from PHP to C# almost killed me. In C#, arrays are just a simple structure with a static size and numeric index. In PHP, arrays are the duct tape of the universe!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61401/hidden-features-of-php/64475#64475

PC guys think while they are “trying” to sleep. A curse, as you know…

- Dad

An awesome email fresh from my inbox.

This email address was created solely to register automatically at thousands of forums for the purposes of spamming forums like yours. Remove my account and any other account registered with my email address!

You should also consider making the password requirements for your forum much more stringent.

Sincerely,

A Random Digilante Who Is Sick Of Forum Spammers From Russia

The sender is right, 22pixels has had an abnormal amount of Russian spam recently. Glad someone is doing something about it.

A new project I’m working on favors Flex over AJAX and other web technologies. So what is a PHP developer to do? Well, its time we take a step away from the comfort of PHP, and try something different. Luckily, my project manager got me started with  the krait snake book, Flex 3 by Oreilly, and there are tons of docs online. However, I’ve also found an article written for stingy PHP developers, in contrast to most Flex articles which are written for people familiar with Flash or previous versions of Flex.

This article introduces you to Flex through basic examples and comparisons with HTML and PHP that you are already familiar with. Each section includes a stand-alone, working example that you can review. I’ll begin with the basics like layout and then move on to more advanced topics such as form submission. The goal of this guide is to show you how easy it is to get started using Flex to build Rich Internet Applications.

The full article can be found here. Although the article won’t teach you to program Flex from scratch, it will definitely help an experienced web developer migrate over to a new platform.

My 360 fell off my dresser last night, went vertical, and then to the floor. Luckily the Xbox is fine, but as most people know by now, if you move your Xbox 360 while a disc is spinning in the tray, it leaves a nice round scratch around the disc, leaving it unreadable.

However! You may get lucky! In my case I was only left with a partial, shallow scratch. My game will load, but I can not read from the disc to say, load a multiplayer map.

I solved this by borrowing my friends game, and installing it to the hard drive. I then gave my friend back his game, popped my scratched cd in the tray, and fired up multiplayer. Everything has been working fine so far. Below is a more detailed guide on solving the problem.

1. Get another copy of the broken disc
2. Pop the good copy into your xbox hard drive
3. On the Xbox dashboard (where you would normally launch the game), Press Y
4. Select “Install To Hard Drive”
5. Wait for Xbox to finish copying the disc to the hard drive
6. Pop out the good disc
7. Put your scratched disc back in
8. Try and launch game
9. Celebrate
10. Give old disc back

I have been wondering why none of my printers work after the haul from school to home. I borked my second printer last week during the move back home for Thanksgiving.

After some research, it turns out that if you keep the ink cartridges inside the printer during transport, the cartridge contacts will rub from the car vibrations, and permanently damage the ink cartridges or pinter itself.

Easy solution: take those babies out before you bring your printer in the car.

I have been wondering about this myself for a while. For many people, a Dreamhost PS is going to be the first private server they have ever dealt with.

If you’re on a budget, chances are you will max out the available resources on your PS at one time or another. Your server will go unresponsive. Dreamhost will tell you that the only way to correct this, is to “increase your maximum resources,” or to restart your server. In some cases, neither of these options will help.

I had to waist a couple hours with support in order to get a hold of the following link. The dreamhost optimization guide will guide you through the steps you need to hunt down the problem source, fix it, and maybe even speed your little PS up.