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Sillyness, werd

Just a little cuteness to brighten your day.

Come September 1st, I will have a new job and my family will be living in a new state.

I know what you're thinking. "Chris in Texas, where it's hot, and hot and Oh my Lord it's Hot!" Yeah I try not to think about the melting that will be happening after I get there.

Elevated temperatures aside, I and my family, are very excited about this move. My time at Asbury has been great; I have grown as a person, developer and employee in ways that I didn't think possible a little over three years ago when I took the Web Architect postition.

But as the old saying goes, "Non-sequitur's make me eat lampshades", and let me tell you, that has never been truer than it is right now.

So, new job.

As of September 1st I will be working for the little startup that could, Viewzi. Viewzi is in one word, supercalifreakingawesome. Great people, seriously solid product and big plans for the future API wise. You will not want to be the only kid on your block who hasn't made a view this time next year. Trust the Chris.

I will have more to say when I actually get to Dallas and start slaving away at some PHP, but until then: Viewzi, love it, use it build something gnarly with it.

Oh right, and I have a new site design.

Yeah. It seemed like a good time to do something different with the ol bucket o' sillyness, what with the move in employment and geography and all. I will talk more about the design a litt

Darth is blue...July 17

Yeah, even the dark lord of the Sith needs the blues every once in a while.

You know your a dork whenJuly 15

You are asked to fill a drop down with a range of heights, and you immediately write a PHP snippet to do it for you.

For those interested, this little routine could be useful for future use:

$f= 4; //number of feet to start with
$i= 0; //we start with no inches
do {
// if inches are less than 12, and feet does not equal 7
if( $i // go ahead and echo out the format we need
echo $f . '.' . $i . "= '$f feet $i inches',\n";
// and increment the inch value by one
$i++;
}
// now we check if we have hit 12 inches,
// if so it is time for a new foot.
if( $i== 12 ) {
//reset inches back to 0, and increase
// our foot value by 1
$i=0; $f++;
// do that crazy echo dance again
echo $f . '.' . $i . "= '$f feet $i inches',\n";
// and of course lets not forget to
// increment our inch
// value by one again.
$i++;
}
}
// do all this crap as long as inches are less
// than 12, and feet do not equal 7.
while( $i ?>

And that is about it. This little bit of code can be repurposed to create ranges between two numbers.

Why can't companies get this stuff right?July 2

A couple of nights ago, I decided to give the Film and TV show site Hulu another chance, since I heard that they had added the tv show Alf to their lineup.

First, some background

The last time I tried the site was in the private beta, and lets just say I was less than impressed. Along came Joost, which is brought to you by some people I know, and poof! I didn't really care about Hulu anymore.

Hulu didn't have any compelling content, and the Joost offering was a client you ran on your computer, and worked with the apple remote. Laziness wins out every time.

The dark days for a Joost user on a mac

Joost was great in the beginning, but one update removed full screen, even on the widescreen movie content, and then another update hosed the apple remote. Things were frustrating for a good long while for me and countless thousands of mac users.

Finally they sorted things out, and the remote started working again. But there was still the annoying "non full screenness" that I had to contend with, and the quality just wasn't what I wanted.

I had a good ride with Joost, even through the annoying mac client problems, but I have a widescreen HDTV, and by Oden's beard, I want to watch my content full screen, in at least DVD quality. Eventually we stopped firing up Joost. And so died internet TV in the Davis household.

Now I know that the genuises at Joost are hard at work making things be