Monthly Archives: July 2007

Safeway Weekly Specials RSS

Posted on July 22, 2007 by garret

In order to learn a bit more about screen scraping with cURL, I coded up a script to generate an RSS feed of Safeway‘s weekly specials. The number of frames and strange redirects on Safeway.com shows that they probably paid … Continue reading →

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Starsiege: Tribes, a truly unique FPS

Posted on July 21, 2007 by garret

Starsiege: Tribes is the best FPS game I’ve ever played. This view is shared by many other gamers (and forum trolls) over at TribalWar.com. Tribes is different from other games in many ways, and has a unique combination of features … Continue reading →

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PHP 4′s end

Posted on July 15, 2007 by garret

Glad to see that there’s an end in sight for PHP 4. From the php.net news: Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP … Continue reading →

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Converting videos for the iPhone

Posted on July 15, 2007 by garret

I’ve been very happy with my iPhone (writeup to come later) but had some trouble figuring out how to convert movies to its native format in an easy way. Here’s what I’ve found out; The iPhone’s resolution is 320×480 at … Continue reading →

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HipCal History

Posted on July 15, 2007 by garret

While giving an interview recently I realized that some of the important dates in HipCal history were getting a little fuzzy. Here’s an official time line; Fall semester, 2004 – I make the first version of MyPIMP in my EIW … Continue reading →

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