http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/ 2010-09-06T19:02:40-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/ http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-08-23T11:36:11-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/2001_saturn_sl2_serpentine_belt_tensioner_problems?rev=1282584971&do=diff In the summery of 2010 I had a loud tapping noise in my engine compartment. I had a mechanic friend listen and he thought it was the tensioner. He was right, but it took me a dozen hours over a period of a couple months to solve the problem. Ultimately, I had to do a little back-yard engineering. text/html 2009-10-08T10:09:50-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/applate?rev=1255018190&do=diff Note: I don't actually use this design myself, but putting it together helped me figure out a good method for Using PHP as a Template Engine, specifically in a Model View Controller (MVC) paradigm. My interest in the iPhone and similar mobile platforms lead me to create a simple Web App Template that works equally well for mobile and small desktop-like apps. text/html 2010-08-23T10:43:04-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/auto_mechanics?rev=1282581784&do=diff Over the last few years I've done a little of my own mechanic work on my cars. I'm actually starting to enjoy the work and consider it a hobby. 2001 Saturn SL2 Serpentine Belt Tensioner Problems I had a problem with the tensioner on my 2001 Saturn SL2. It was making a very loud tapping noise. Ultimately I had to do a little back-yard engineering to solve the problem. text/html 2009-02-19T10:15:46-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/buttonwiz_8.0?rev=1235063746&do=diff Create stylish buttons for your webpage using an intuitive, wizard-style interface. Choose from over 200 different button styles. Personalize the buttons with any font, size, or color; you can even add several layers of text. When your button is finished, you can save it to disk or copy it to the Windows clipboard and paste it into any graphics program. text/html 2009-09-16T08:04:40-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/calories?rev=1253109880&do=diff About Calories Quickly track the number of calories you’ve eaten today. Fast with no frills, logs what you eat without getting in the way. Integrated Google search box helps you find calories for specific foods when you’re not sure. No login required. text/html 2009-09-16T08:07:00-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/carbs?rev=1253110020&do=diff About Carbs Quickly track the number of carbs you’ve eaten today. Fast with no frills, logs what you eat without getting in the way. Integrated Google search box helps you find calories for specific foods when you’re not sure. No login required. text/html 2010-07-28T14:59:35-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/check_the_network_connection_in_phonegap?rev=1280350775&do=diff // check to see if the network is reachable setTimeout(function() { navigator.network.isReachable("www.google.com", networkConnectionCheck, {isIpAddress:false}); }, 500); function networkConnectionCheck(reachability) { if ( reachability.remoteHostStatus == NetworkStatus.NOT_REACHABLE ) { navigator.notification.alert("You appear to be offline.", "your app name"); } }; text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:48-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/clump_programming?rev=1227194208&do=diff Clump Programming is a simple process I designed in order to organize my files more efficiently for programming. Rational I've been using CVS for about 10 years. This works well for me, but in some situations there is resistance to CVS either because of it's inconvenience or because of technology limitations. It's also not terribly efficient for an individual developer. As a result, I'm looking for a new process. text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:45-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/concat_multiple_pdf_files_with_ghostscript?rev=1227194205&do=diff You can concat multiple PDf files together using Ghostscript. This will “print” each of the PDF's to a sudo printer which writes them out as a file. Because of this, the resulting PDF may be larger and could loose some text and features from the original. Works well on scanned PDF's, Faxes, and other similar documents. text/html 2009-11-24T16:09:19-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/contact_me?rev=1259104159&do=diff You can contact me or read more about what I'm doing right now using the following resources. Email Contact me via email using this form. Messenger Client I currently have accounts on Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and Skype. If you want to chat, use the email form above to send me your account name and let me know what service you use. text/html 2009-11-10T12:29:18-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/convert_and_resize_images_with_imagemagick?rev=1257881358&do=diff This simple command will use ImageMagick's mogrify command to convert a batch of images from one format to another. The -geometry option also resizes them during the conversion. mogrify -geometry 1024x768 -format jpg *.eps text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:39-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/copying_vmware_virtual_machines?rev=1227194199&do=diff These instructions assume that I have a virtual machine directory called “Win_XP_Base”. You can, of course, do this with any virtual machine. Copy the VM directory. cp -r Win_XP_Base Win_XP_<name> Switch to the new directory and edit the vmx file. Replace Win_XP_Base with Win_XP_<name> text/html 2009-09-08T08:32:36-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/data_url?rev=1252420356&do=diff This is a PHP script that will load the specified HTML document and convert it to a data URL. It's Useful for generating off-line web apps, especially for the iPhone. It makes 3 passes which do the following. * Convert JavaScript to data: URL's * Convert Images to data: URL's * Convert the whole document to a data: URL text/html 2009-12-04T09:14:58-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/digital_finger_paintings?rev=1259943298&do=diff Here is a picture I painted by finger on the iPhone. I used the Brushes app. Hopefully I can do a little more of this. Sunset from the Train This is a picture of a sunset over the Wasatch Mountains. I painted this looking at the sight through the window of a Front Runner train. It took about 40 minutes. text/html 2009-08-12T12:55:33-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/dynamo?rev=1250103333&do=diff Dynamo is a free PHP library that automatically draws basic HTML tables and forms based on the results of MySQL queries. It is open source, distributed under the GPL. It is particularly useful for quickly and easily writing reports using mainly a MySQL query without writing a lot of PHP code. text/html 2008-09-25T15:43:21-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/easyajax?rev=1222379001&do=diff This is (probably) a temporary document. This is an ajax library I'm writing, to make ajax easier. The library consists of two user functions. Syntax ajaxSetup();ajaxStart(myObj, myMode, myUrl, myFunc); Example // Setup the ajax object var myAjax; myAjax = ajaxSetup(); // Create an example function that will be executed onclick function example() { ajaxStart(myAjax, 'GET', 'hello.php?r=' + randFoo(), 'sayHello(myAjax)'); return false; } // Setup a function that will be executed wh… text/html 2009-12-28T15:53:02-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/easyvar?rev=1262040782&do=diff A plugin for DokuWiki that allows you to insert variables into your wiki page (for example @something@) and have that variable replaced with longer code from a pre-defined file. For more information see the EasyVar page in the official DokuWiki documentation. text/html 2008-12-01T09:22:31-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/encryption_with_gnupg_and_firegpg?rev=1228148551&do=diff I worry about the fact that an employee at Google can read all my email. I worry that they know many of the websites I visited and what I searched for. With FireGPG and GnuPG, I can easily encrypt my email. It's a start. Creating a Key First, you need to generate a key. Under linux, you do this with the following command. text/html 2010-02-18T09:37:32-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/enom_and_bulkregister.com?rev=1266511052&do=diff I had a bad experience with eNom and BulkRegister.com and this is my story. RegisterFly Way back when, I was a customer of the domain registration service RegisterFly. They had great prices and a decent web interface. Rumour has it that a spat between the owners caused a decline there and before long I started to have serious problems. text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:48-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/firefox_reveal_passwords?rev=1227194208&do=diff In Firefox, if you are looking at a page that has a saved password on it, you can paste the following javascript into the address bar. This will show you the password saved on the page. javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = ””; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == “password”) s += f[i].value + “\n”; } } if (s) alert(“Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n” + s); else alert(“There are no passwords in forms on thi… text/html 2009-12-02T05:31:36-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/goal_ideas?rev=1259757096&do=diff This is just a short list of thoughts I've had for topics or subjects I might want to set a goal and photograph. - Flashlight / Dark - Spin Photos - Short Video Clips (x Sec) text/html 2009-05-01T18:11:54-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/google_gmail_bookmark_that_logs_in?rev=1241223114&do=diff You can create a bookmark that automatically logs you into your Google Email (GMail) account. This gives you a quick link to your email and also gives you an easy way to login to multiple accounts easily. Note: Both of these methods give anyone with access to your computer access to your email AND your Google password. text/html 2009-02-01T11:01:29-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/hiding_your_own_traffic_from_google_analytics?rev=1233511289&do=diff I recently setup a Google Analytics account on this site in order to get a “second opinion” of my traffic (compared to my regular site statistics). What I noticed pretty quickly is that my own traffic was poisoning my results. So, I set out to hide my own traffic. text/html 2009-11-11T06:40:05-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/hobbies?rev=1257946805&do=diff This stuff moved. text/html 2009-09-07T13:02:00-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/hosted_applications?rev=1252350120&do=diff This page has been removed. Its contents were moved over to the Software Projects page. Web App Sites A list of places where you can find (or publish) other web apps. text/html 2008-12-29T08:41:44-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/how-to_make_iphone_ringtones?rev=1230565304&do=diff Here are some instructions for creating iPhone ringtones under Linux. The Audio File Start with an audio file. Just about anything will work; a recording, or a music file. In my example, I start with a WAV file my kids recorded on their cell phone. text/html 2010-07-25T11:58:50-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/how_to_cheat_at_wild_west_pinball?rev=1280080730&do=diff Background There are some rediculously high scores in the iPhone game Wild West Pinball. Because those scores couldn't possibly be real, I set out to find out how people were cheating. I was surprised to find that very little information about the cheating was around. Eventually I came across a thread that said it had something to do with pausing the game. So, I started pausing the game at various points and eventually stumbled on a bug that will let you get a ridiculous score. text/html 2008-09-05T08:57:27-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/icoaster?rev=1220626647&do=diff Turn your iPhone into a high-tech drink coaster. WARNING: This application is for entertainment purposes only. Your iPhone is not water proof, so put drinks on it at your own risk! Open iCoaster text/html 2009-11-16T08:22:56-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/ideas?rev=1258384976&do=diff My head is swarming with ideas for new products, software programs, websites, and businesses. I drive my family crazy when I blurt out interesting, odd or downright insane ideas from the couch, which I do regularly. Here is a collection of some of those ideas. Some of these are simple thoughts while others I've spent more time brainstorming and organizing. I'd love your feedback on any of these ideas. text/html 2010-07-03T12:09:50-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/installing_husqavarna_3d_embroidery_on_windows_vista?rev=1278180590&do=diff I spent a few hours at my Mom's house trying to get the 3D Husqvarna Embroidering system installed under Windows Vista. It took a lot of wrestling but here's how I got it to work. Hopefully, with these instructions, you'll find it much easier to do than I did. text/html 2010-02-03T08:01:03-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/iphone_app_wanted?rev=1265209263&do=diff So, I just got a new iPhone, and I'm scared to death that it will be lost or stolen. I've protected it with a sticker that offers a reward for it's safe return, but I want to do more. There are not a lot of applications out there for finding your iPhone. I've got an idea for a simple solution. text/html 2010-08-18T22:19:15-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/javascript_coding_standards?rev=1282191555&do=diff Pure JavaScript After becoming very familiar with how to write JavaScript code using the jQuery framework, I started working on a few mobile projects. On mobile devices jQuery is both a little bloated and sometimes incompatible. But, having grown use to it's syntax and it's ability to separate source and ui code, I wanted to find and set some similar standards for coding in pure JavaScript. What I found is that jQuery made me a lazy JavaScript programmer in many ways. text/html 2009-02-01T10:30:54-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/keyboarding?rev=1233509454&do=diff Don't laugh! I recently started to teach myself to play the keyboard. I have a cheap Casio keyboard that I bought for my family. I've connected the keyboard to my computer and recorded myself playing. The plan is to improve over time; we'll see. text/html 2009-11-10T12:27:54-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/lexar_jump_drive_firefly_usb_flash_drive?rev=1257881274&do=diff Over the last few years I've had 4 or 5 different USB flash drives. But, the Lexar Jump Drive Firefly has proven to be a favorite product. Most of the USB flash drives on the market connect to your key ring directly and have a cap that pulls off. The Firefly has a cap that is attached to your keys and the flash drive pulls out of the cap. This design choice is what I like most about the Firefly. It's also the reason I almost passed up the drive when I saw it in the store. At first this soun… text/html 2009-11-11T08:51:54-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/making_this_website_fit_your_iphone?rev=1257954714&do=diff After I created my new site design I decided I wanted it to fit nicely on my iPhone. When I browsed to the site, it worked okay, but I wanted more. I identified the following issues I wanted to solve. * The initial zoom was too small by default. * When I edit a page the zooming in and out is dizzying. text/html 2009-01-16T21:16:35-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/mal_s_e-commerce_cart_instructions?rev=1232165795&do=diff This is a set of instructions on how to integrate some aspects of Mal's E-Commerce into your website. Mal's E-Commerce is a free shopping cart solution available at <http://www.mals-e.com>. Downloadable Products Adding to Mal's * Login at www.mals-e.com * Click on the Cart Setup tab * Click on Advanced Settings then Downloadable Products * Enter the skew number in the Code box * Enter the Description and Price * Leave the Units field blank * Enter an HTML link to the MP3 file i… text/html 2009-11-20T13:38:48-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/micro_journal_web_and_mobile_app?rev=1258749528&do=diff A quick app for writing journal entries. Defaults to just 250 characters. Twitter / Facebook like. I'd like to keep a journal. I typically have good intentions of doing so, but I'll do it for a while and then give up because I don't have enough time. I can post tiny bits of information about my lift in a micro journal, however, and that might work for me. Much like Twitter and Facebook don't take a lot of time to write on. text/html 2009-11-24T09:51:32-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/mit_license?rev=1259081492&do=diff The following license applies to some software on this website. Please check the software page to be sure it is covered by this license. Copyright (c) 2009 Joel Dare Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, a… text/html 2009-09-14T08:11:46-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/mobile_web_app_template?rev=1252937506&do=diff This is a basic starting point for Web Apps. It is specifically targeted to mobile sizes. Finished web apps can easily be converted to native iPhone apps using the Big5 open source project. They can also be ported to Palm OS or Android as native apps. text/html 2009-11-11T09:27:44-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/model_rockets?rev=1257956864&do=diff I dabbled in model rockets for a while, including building my own tiny rocket motors. I don't currently have time, but I hope to dabble in rockets again one day. The Tiny Rocket Project Model Rocket Shopping List Making a Nozzle Drill Homemade Rocket Igniter's Nozzle Notes Paper Tube Calculator Hobby Rocket Motor Law text/html 2009-05-28T09:05:27-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/mounting_ssh_with_sshfs?rev=1243523127&do=diff You can mount an SSH connection with sshfs. sshfs <user>@<server>:<remote_path> <local_mount_point> You can unmount it with: fusermount -u <local_mount_point> Here's a shell script I use to mount and unmount several servers that I connect to frequently. text/html 2008-09-09T11:00:58-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/mui_framework?rev=1220979658&do=diff mUI is a simple HTML/Javascript framework for writing mobile web applications. It mimics some of the behaviors of the iPhone, which is it's primary target, but it is also browser independent and should work for Android and other mobile platforms. text/html 2007-12-25T20:33:27-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/my_wish_list?rev=1198640007&do=diff This is my wish list. I put items on this list for several reasons. First, because I keep forgetting to buy some of these things myself. Second, because people ask me what I want for birthdays or holidays and I always respond, “I don't know”. text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:46-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/new?rev=1227194206&do=diff This is just a test page. Why are you here? text/html 2010-08-10T14:57:07-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/open_a_url_in_phonegap?rev=1281473827&do=diff I wanted to open a remove website URL instead of a local index.html file in PhoneGap. Although it's possible, and has it's uses, you shouldn't submit an app that does this to Apple for approval. They are pretty likely to reject the app and, if enough developers did so, it might give PhoneGap a bad rap at Apple. Still, the trick is useful for developers to avoiding recompiling over and over again. text/html 2009-07-17T07:38:15-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/outdoors?rev=1247837895&do=diff I decided to break out Google Earth and draw a 50 mile circle around my home in Roy Utah. The idea is that any River, Stream, Lake, Reservoir or other body of water in that area is reachable within a one hour drive. Below are some KMZ files for Google Earth where I've started to put together paths along rivers in the area. text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:49-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/pchelpware_support_tool?rev=1227194209&do=diff This tool allows your computer to connect to mine via the internet and then gives me control of your keyboard and mouse. This will only work if I'm waiting for your connection on my side, so you must talk to me first. Using this tool, I can help you install software or troubleshoot a problem. To get started, click the download link below. text/html 2009-11-11T09:14:18-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/philosophy?rev=1257956058&do=diff Goals X3 A simple idea on breaking a particular goal, such as weight loss, down into 3 tiny parts. Project Breakdown X3 A simple idea on breaking a project down into 3 smaller parts, recursively, until each part is easy to accomplish. Planner Templates A set of templates designed to fit on 8.5×11 paper, folded or cut in half. They work well in a standard 3-hole planner and can be printed on any printer. text/html 2010-08-10T15:14:20-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/phonegap_notes?rev=1281474860&do=diff These are some random notes about PhoneGap. The native iPhone toolBar is to short in 0.9.1 when the iPhone status bar is on. A fix is in the last comment on the following page. <http://phonegap.lighthouseapp.com/projects/20116/tickets/40> text/html 2010-07-25T12:02:50-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/photography_digital_art?rev=1280080970&do=diff I enjoy photography, 3D computer graphics, pencil drawing, and painting. I've enjoyed art most of my life but have not worked on as much as I'd like. Recently, PBase seems to have deleted my account. I'm not sure if I have copies of those photo's elsewhere. If I find them, I'll put them back here. The timing on that was bad, yesterday I was looking at local gallery options, but I hadn't moved these here yet. text/html 2010-08-13T09:33:51-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/play_an_mp3_audio_stream_in_phonegap?rev=1281713631&do=diff I work for a company that owns a couple radio stations as well as a popular classifieds website (<http://www.ksl.com>). We wanted to build an iPhone app that would allow the customer to browse the classifieds website while listening to the audio stream. I decided to implement that using the PhoneGap framework. I'm embarrassed to admit that it took me about 2 days to test all the various suggestions I found on the web and to find this answer. But, alas, here is the working bit of JavaScript c… text/html 2009-11-10T12:50:57-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/private_areas?rev=1257882657&do=diff The following area's of this wiki are private. You must login to access them. home Information that only my immediate family can access. family Information that my extended family can access. friends Information that my family and friends can access. text/html 2010-02-18T09:21:24-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/product_reviews?rev=1266510084&do=diff Every once in a while a product will stand out to me and I'll feel compelled to write a review. I've also decided to starting listing things I've learned from various books, good books and bad books. Here are my thoughts about various products. eNom and BulkRegister.com The story about my bad experience as I was pushed from one registrar to another. text/html 2009-09-08T08:41:46-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/public_domain?rev=1252420906&do=diff Some software on this website is released into the public domain. Please check the software page to be sure of its license. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OU… text/html 2009-09-08T08:37:05-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/quickuser?rev=1252420625&do=diff QuickUser is a JavaScript class that maintains user information using a cookie. It creates a new user ID, if one wasn't already created, and stores an array of user information in a cookie. Additional key / value pairs can be added by the programmer. No user id or password is required, making login unnecessary. They can be easily added and tracked, however. text/html 2009-12-04T10:15:23-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/quotes?rev=1259946923&do=diff “If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” -- Thomas Jefferson “Delay is preferable to error.” -- Thomas Jefferson “I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” -- Thomas Jefferson text/html 2008-02-11T12:31:56-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/remote_debug_phpagi_scripts?rev=1202758316&do=diff You can debug PHPAGI scripts remotely using the debugger from Zend Studio for Eclipse. Requirements You'll need some stuff! * Zend Debugger from www.zend.com. * Apache running on the Asterisk server. Installing the Debugger * Download the debugger from Zends website. text/html 2009-02-25T07:04:00-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/repairing_cracked_laptop_hinges?rev=1235570640&do=diff My laptop started to crack near the hinges. Apparently, this is a common problem with a lot of different laptops. Mine were cracked, but not yet broken. So, I grabbed some epoxy and went to work repairing them. Here are the steps I took to complete the job. text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:44-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/replace_text_in_pdf_files?rev=1227194204&do=diff * Use pdftk to uncompress PDF page streams pdftk original.pdf output original.clear.pdf uncompress * Replace the text (sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't). * Repair the modified (and now broken) PDF pdftk original.clear.pdf output original.clear.fixed.pdf text/html 2008-06-09T11:02:38-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/samsung_sgh-t719_as_bluetooth_gprs_modem_on_palm_tx?rev=1213030958&do=diff Overview These are details for using the Samsung SGH-T719 with T-Mobile cell phone service as a GPRS Modem on the Palm TX handheld via Bluetooth. Requirements You will need the T-Mobile “Total Internet” package. At the time of this writing, this package is not an option for me on T-Mobiles website, instead there is a “Blackberry Unlimited” option. According to T-Mobile's modem support department, the “Blackberry Unlimited” option does not work. I had to call T-Mobile to add the “Total In… text/html 2009-11-14T10:34:30-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/save_file_bookmarklet?rev=1258220070&do=diff This page has moved to Save File Bookmarklet. text/html 2010-02-12T09:55:10-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/search?rev=1265993710&do=diff text/html 2010-06-10T12:01:11-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/software_projects?rev=1276192871&do=diff ANSI C Libraries CGI-LIB 2.0 CGI-LIB is a FREE ANSI C library for CGI programming. It was originally written by Noel V Aguilar. In February of 2004 I found and fixed a small bug. After contacting the original author, I decided to fix and distribute this new version. It is now distributed as Open Source under the GPL. text/html 2008-12-02T09:09:19-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/sql_joins?rev=1228234159&do=diff Inner Join Return the rows from both tables where the row in the left table and the row in the right table are relevant based on the where clause. Select main.id, main.name, location.city, location.state from main, location where main.id = address.id; text/html 2010-08-26T20:12:38-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/start?rev=1282875158&do=diff I've been pushing various bits of information out of my head and into this website for several years and it's updated frequently. I've been using the free Dokuwiki program to organize these pages since 2007. You can create an account if you want to follow changes to a particular page or section. text/html 2010-08-23T10:40:37-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/stories_journal_entries?rev=1282581637&do=diff BMXers My short adventures into BMX riding. I have come to grips with the fact that I'm too old for BMX riding. There are older riders, yes, but I'm just not cut out for this. Boat Building My new blog about building a homemade boat on the cheap. text/html 2009-10-14T08:46:21-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/strong_passwords_that_appear_random?rev=1255531581&do=diff Several years ago a customer and I were discussing password security and he gave me a simple idea to create strong web passwords that appear to be random. I've now been using the idea successfully for years. His idea was simply to create a formula for your password. This formula should contain elements that are easy for you to remember and should use something unique about each system it will be used on. When considering web passwords, it's pretty easy to come up with a formula. text/html 2009-11-17T14:48:44-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/tech_news?rev=1258494524&do=diff About Tech News Quick links to the best technology news sources from around the web. Designed for mobile devices such as the iPhone, Palm Pre, Google Android, LG Dare, and more. Links Open Mobile Version You can also drag the Desktop link above to the bookmark toolbar in your browser. text/html 2010-08-18T21:55:11-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/technical_documents?rev=1282190111&do=diff Linux Instruction Installing Ubuntu on an Averatec 5500 Laptop Installing Asterisk Under Debian Etch Installing the O2Micro OZ711MX (OZ711M1) Driver Installing PHPEd Under Debian Etch Installing a Postscript Printer Under Cups Installing RT2500 WiFi Adapter Installing SmartCVS Installing Sun JRE Installing VMWare Server Console Under Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Intel 82801G Under Debian Etch Kerberos Setup Real to Virtual Machine with SystemRescueCD Set Gnome to use Reduced Resources … text/html 2009-10-26T14:18:50-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/technology_news?rev=1256588330&do=diff This page moved to Tech News Web App. text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:43-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/test?rev=1227194203&do=diff This is just a test page. text/html 2008-08-13T08:09:15-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/the_clump_programming_process?rev=1218636555&do=diff This page has moved to Clump Programming. text/html 2009-11-20T17:05:16-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/tv?rev=1258761916&do=diff I cancelled cable and switched to over-the-air broadcasting and the Internet. Below are links to some of the videos we are currently watching or have recently watched and enjoyed. I'll try to keep these up to date as I watch but online video's tend to “expire” from the web; a shame. text/html 2009-11-20T13:40:21-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/tweet_saver?rev=1258749621&do=diff A Nickel Saver type feed using tweets from twitter. Probably tweets based on a location. It might search for all tweets within 20 miles of a specific area and which contain “for sale”. They would be displayed in no particular order, or maybe just by date, similar to a nickel saver paper. Might also have a search feature so that you could look for “Honda” in the feed. text/html 2009-11-14T10:30:03-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/twitter_mentions_of_page?rev=1258219803&do=diff This page has moved to Twitter Mentions of Page. text/html 2009-11-14T10:28:22-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/twitter_multiple_personalities_app?rev=1258219702&do=diff This page has moved to Twitter Multiple Personalities App. text/html 2008-10-27T10:56:10-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/useful_vim_commands?rev=1225126570&do=diff The following are commands I find useful when editing in VIM. To make a particular command permanent, add it to your .vimrc file. Auto Indenting To use the indent from the previous line. :set autoindent Syntax Highlighting Turn on syntax highlighting. text/html 2010-04-22T12:06:03-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/using_awk_on_csv_files?rev=1271959563&do=diff You can use AWK to quickly look at a column of data in a CSV file. In my case, the CSV files are in the following format: "field1","field2","field3" To view the 3rd field of every line, you can use the following command. awk -F "\"*,\"*" '{print $3}' file.csv As another example, take the following pipe delimited format: text/html 2010-02-12T10:01:33-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/using_awk_to_pull_specific_lines?rev=1265994093&do=diff You can use AWK to pull a specific set of lines from any text, CSV, html, or XML file. Use AWK as a substitute for CAT when you need to pull text from one specific line to another specific line. Here's the simple AWK command that you can use. awk '/My Start String/,/My End String/' file.txt That simple command will output the data in file.txt starting with the text “My Start String” and ending with the text “My End String”. text/html 2008-08-14T12:10:04-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/using_gedit_as_a_php_editor?rev=1218737404&do=diff This document describes how I've setup gedit as an editor (and really and IDE) for PHP development. As you can see in this screenshot, I've got the syntax for a specific PHP function open in the bottom pane, a file-browser in the left pane, and syntax highlighting. You can't see that I can check the syntax with lint, take snapshots using my Clump Programming method, and more. text/html 2008-03-29T17:33:24-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/using_smartcvs_with_kerberos?rev=1206833604&do=diff Note: Although I thought this process worked, it didn't. The server I was connecting to was incorrectly setup to accept ssh-key's, so Kerberos was not being used at all. SmartCVS has it's own SSH client built in, and that client does not support Kerberos. text/html 2009-09-15T07:34:41-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/web_app_sites?rev=1253021681&do=diff This is a list of websites where they link to web apps. Apple Specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but many of the apps also work with other mobile devices such as the LG Dare, the TMobile G1, and probably the Palm Pre and others. The Unofficial Web App Store A small list of web apps. text/html 2009-11-27T02:31:40-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/web_app_user_manager?rev=1259314300&do=diff This is a basic user manager for web apps. It's a stand-alone website that verifies user information and then redirects back to the main app. This allows you to focus on web apps themselves instead of the user verification system. It's written in HTML, JavaScript, and PHP. text/html 2010-08-26T20:10:58-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/web_projects?rev=1282875058&do=diff ZodaLife People are often asking me, “How can I build a website”? I built ZodaLife to help people do just that. It uses WordPress as a platform to build websites. StreetTweople A site about people who live on the streets. Their hopes, their dreams, their struggles, and their successes. text/html 2008-01-19T05:39:42-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/web_software_testing?rev=1200746382&do=diff Browser Test * Internet Explorer 7 * Internet Explorer 6 * FireFox 2.0 Form Test * Generate sequential & random data * Also Include !@#$%^&*()_+=-\][|}{';”:/.,?><`~ text/html 2009-11-18T10:08:56-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/what_would_google_do?rev=1258564136&do=diff The company I work for was recently pulled apart and re-organized. The new company should be leaner, more technical and act more like a “new media” company instead of an “old media” company. From my vantage point, the changes are good. The new president gave each of us a copy of the book, “What Would Google Do?” by Jeff Jarvis. I just finished the book and decided to write about the top things I got from reading it. text/html 2010-06-10T12:04:36-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/whois?rev=1276193076&do=diff About Whois Quick and easy domain name lookups on your mobile. Find out if a domain name is available or get information about that domain. Designed for mobile devices such as the iPhone, Palm Pre, Google Android, LG Dare, and more. Links Open Mobile Version text/html 2009-01-21T16:12:08-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/why_divs_are_better_than_tables?rev=1232579528&do=diff I struggle with the “DIV vs Table” argument myself. Most web developers, with CSS experience, will agree that DIVs (or other styled elements) are better than tables for site layout, and I agree. Where I generally struggle, however, is when it concerns tabular data. I generally think tables are easier but in a recent project I found a darn good reason to use a DIV instead. text/html 2008-09-09T11:11:12-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/writing_an_mui_application?rev=1220980272&do=diff An mUI application is essentially just a web page with some CSS and Javascript that make it look more like an application. You can use any back-end programming tool that you prefer, such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, Perl, C, etc. This is an overview of creating a new application using the mUI framework. text/html 2008-11-20T08:16:41-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/xcopy_backups_in_windows?rev=1227194201&do=diff The following is the xcopy command I use frequently to backup files in windows. xcopy <source> <destination> /E /V /H /Y /C /F text/html 2009-11-20T08:00:20-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/xhtml_1.1_template?rev=1258729220&do=diff This is a minimilist template for an XHTML 1.1 document. I use this as a starting point for many of my own web projects that are started from scratch. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <head> <title>[Title]</title> <!-- Meta Tags --> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <meta name="description" content="A blank XHTML 1.1 document t… text/html 2008-02-20T19:26:25-06:00 http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/zend_cvs_checkout?rev=1203560785&do=diff Here's a quick snapshot of my working CVS checkout options for Zend. This allows me to checkout a piece of a larger project. In this case, I'm checking out zweite, which is physically part of the asterisk project in CVS, but I don't want all the empty directories, so I use the -d zweite option to drop everything in a directory called zweite.