Jon, Author at VirtJunkie

Author: Jon

News / Ideas

Posted on November 5, 2005 by Jon

I decided after reading all of chapter 2 and part of chapter 3 in my AJAX book that I need to learn Javascript better before I go further with AJAX, because It’s based on Javascript. Fortunately I have a really good Javascript book that I’m about 1/8’th of the way done with.

As for news…

I’m working on a ton of features daily on this site that I’m making (which I could still use some testers (Email me) for. One feature that’s been annoying me, as I’ve been trying to implement it is the functionality to have the site remember someone after they log out.

Last night before I went to bed I had had it with not being able to figure it out, so I brainstormed, and wrote out a two page instruction sheet for myself on how to do it.

If you already know PHP, and think that this is easy, you’re right, usually. The problem was, that I didn’t plan to have this functionality when I made the site, and it was hard to find a way to to fit it in once it was already made.

So, I’m going to go to school in 15 minutes, get home around 12:45, then start adding this functionality to this site. Afterwards I’m going to make another entry with examples on how to do it.

Later,
Jon Howe

Notification to Everyone that reads this

Posted on November 4, 2005 by Jon

From now on, everyone is to call the thing that has the buttons that they use with their right hand to control a cursor on a computer a “clicky clicky”.

It’s a way better name… no seriously.

later,
Jon Howe

New Idea

Posted on November 3, 2005 by Jon

I just got a new book on Ajax, which is an exploding method of creating code using a combination of Javascript, CSS, DOM, and xhtmlrequest.

That’s a bunch of technical junk I guess. The main point is that it allows you to do really cool things on a webpage without refreshing the whole page.

I’m going to try to read a chapter in it each day, if not one day then every two days, and post comments and maybe code examples (if I feel creative) as well.

I think, actually, that doing some code examples up here each time would cement the ideas into my head. Sounds like a plan.

… Wait, I’m not sure that the content management system that I’m using for this website can handle javacript… I guess we’ll see!

I’ll try and post an example or two / mabye a summary here later tonight once I finish chapter 2. (chapter 1 was way too boring, so I skipped it)

Later,
Jon Howe

Happy Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Jon

Happy Halloween!

yeah, happy halloween. That’s all I got

Peace,
Jon Howe

Web Design

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Jon

So over the past few months I’ve been working on a website for someone. The website’s going to be used sort of as a utility website for employees at car dealerships around Michigan.

I haven’t mentioned a lot about it, because it’s not quite ready yet, and it’s a bit secretive at this point.

However, it is coming along pretty well at this point. The user interface is done (for the most part), and a new site design is being made by someone that is very good at making site designs. All that has to happen is a calculation has to be transferred from one language into the language that the site is in.

Sometime in the near future I could use some help from (preferably) people that I know to beta test the user interface.

If you’re interested in trying to break my site, feel free to contact me via email at this email address

Thanks,
Jon Howe

Argh

Posted on October 23, 2005 by Jon

Once again, it’s early, and I’m up.

This time I’m going to Lansing with the family to see my Grandparents on my Mom’s side.

The MP3 Player’s ready to go for the car ride, now I just have to stay awake at the restaraunt.

More later,
Jon Howe

Great weekend so far

Posted on October 22, 2005 by Jon

This weekend has been pretty productive for me.

So far I’ve done two things that have been daunting for me to complete in the past:

1. Install Nvidia Driver for linux
2. Get TwinView (dual monitor as one display) support working as well.

Now all that I have to do is find a way to let the cord for the second monitor stretch to my computer from my desk.

I have to get up at 8 tomorrow, so I need to get to bed.

later,
Jon Howe

New Toy

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Jon

So a few days ago my motherboard died, which stunk. Fortunately I have a laptop where I can do schoolwork, but that still doesn’t mean that I didn’t need to get a replacement motherboard.

So I went to Newegg.com and bought a decent Asus one.

I’m using Debian GNU/Linux as my primary operating system, and before installing the new motherboard I was Sure (just like in Windows) that I’d have to reinstall the operating system in order for it to load.

I was wrong. Debian detected almost all of the hardware changes, and applied the changes for the first login after the motherboard installation.

The only problem was that I don’t have serial device support…. I don’t think.

The thing is, I don’t have any sda* devices in /dev. If you know anything about Linux, you know that these are needed to mount flash drives, usb hard drives, and the like.

Oh well, I’ll go forum surfing, and hopefully find an answer.

Later,
Jon Howe

All Hope Is Lost!! / News

Posted on October 19, 2005 by Jon

Gmail is down! What am I to do. I’m lost.

Other than that…

It’s really early, and I’m up, thanks to the fact that I went to bed, well, really early. I have a speech due on Thursday at 5:45 PM that I have to get done. My goal is to knock most of that out today.

I’ve been using this free open source email server that is really nice called Hula-Project. Novell Helped out the Hula-project by releasing a ton of it’s source code for the projects use. While the project isn’t in a full release state yet, the beginnings of it (which I have been running with no problem for months) have been working fine.

Anyways, I need to get cracking on this speech.

Later,
Jon Howe

News

Posted on October 18, 2005 by Jon

Okay, so I decided that doing a “command of the day” every Monday is a little bit boring. I’ll find some commands every once in a while that I find interesting.

About the Podcast:
Everything is set to start recording except one thing. We don’t have a time that we can get together. So, we are still interested in doing it, it’s just a little hard right now.

More Later,
Jon Howe