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Code Sample: PHP Backup MySQL and files to Dropbox 17

Jan

21

2013

Most web hosts have the ability via their control panel to offer an entire site backup , and this is the minimal functionality you should consider. Generally there’s a site backup link within the control panel that create a tar ball (.zip file) of the entire site and its contents. then you can email,or simply download ...

2013 Sports calendar and goals

Jan

14

2013

2013 Sports Calendar My tentative 2013 race & event schedule. Races marked with an * indicates races I have already registered or will be definitely doing, others listed are events I’m considering but undecided, popular races sell out quickly (sometimes within minutes of open registration). .. Schedule may change due to unforeseen circumstances.. RUNNING * Mar-17 NYC 13.1 half NYC ...

Twitter like alerts via simple Jquery and PHP 3

Jan

14

2013

One of the minor challenges of creating a web application , is to indicate that something was successfully or unsuccessfully completed when transitioning to a new page or screen. I find it’s very important and reassuring to let user’s know what has happened , whether it worked or whether there was a problem. Typically a simple status message would ...

Update: When on Robots do all the work? on 60 Minutes…

Jan

14

2013

Lo and behold to my surprise yesterday, when 60 Minutes ran a story on exactly the topic I posted about a few months back, What happens When Robots do all the work? Pretty much this 60 Minutes story touched on all the points I discussed on my original blog posting. I recommend you watch the video here: ...

Tomorrow’s world: BBC infographic

Jan

9

2013

Interesting infographic about the future Having just recently posted a blog entry on the future of work. I was reading my Flipboard feed and came across this interesting infographic from the BBC Future web site. I found it amusing and interesting because some of the predictions (And that’s what these are) some of them coincide with my ...

My Quirky Bucket List

Dec

30

2012

Ahh the proverbial bucket list. Its that time of year, when people begin to think of New Year’s resolutions. So I prefer to think a little longer term, not just in the next year, but lifetime…. As we complete yet another orbit around the sun, its time to realize as discomforting as it may be, ...

Bitcoin – currency fail .. or future of money?

Dec

13

2012

I’ve been pretty intrigued by bitcoin lately. If your not familiar with bitcoin you can of course head over to the wikipedia bitcoin entry or you can head over to this no nonsense post bitcoing post on gizmodo . In a nutshell bitcoin is an on-line digital currency (sometimes referred to as a crypto-currency) ...

html5 – javascript game frameworks? – Game Development

Dec

5

2012

HTML5 Gaming I’m beginning to look into various html5 javascript game and graphics frameworks. The toughest part is always choosing a good framework in the beginning, since its such a time investment to learn a new API , plus hope that the framework is popular enough so bugs are fixed quickly and it matures rapidly. This ...

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