Category Archives: Programming

A Programmer’s Workspace

A screenshot taken while I was working on a very large project. Continue reading

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Open Graph (Facebook Share) and NextGEN Gallery

An article on how to use Open Graph (Facebook Share meta data) with the NextGEN Gallery in a Wordpress blog. Explains the code changes needed to make the excerpt and featured image show up correctly on Facebook share. Continue reading

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My Folding@home Stats

If you aren’t sure what this is, then checkout folding.stanford.edu and start folding.

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Windows 7 like taskbar in Ubuntu 9.04 (Gnome)

I’ve tried a number of different taskbars and docks for Linux, but I haven’t found any that I really like. Awn is good, but has always been a bit buggy, and doesn’t group windows (at least in the versions I’ve … Continue reading

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Pi Day!

As most University of Waterloo math students know, it is the famous Pi Day today!   The month is 3, the day is 14, and the time is 1:59:26, need I say more…  So in honour of this I took out … Continue reading

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Linux Numerology

I’m not superstitious – at least most of the time…  Though sometimes I can’t help but enjoy funny things that happen with numbers, partially those associated with superstitions or fun patterns.    So here are two of my favourites – related … Continue reading

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Getting DreamSpark as a High School Student

When Microsoft announced that they were giving some of their development and server software to college and university students for free (an initiative they call DreamSpark) I must say that I was very annoyed.    You see the problem is … Continue reading

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