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9.29.2009, Tue
How I Made Creating Picture Posts Easier

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categories: computer, photography, pictures

(see the original post on my blog here):
http://www.jermilsadler.com/blog/2009/09/how-i-made-creating-picture-posts-easier/

Back in June or July, I created a program to help me with getting my pictures onto my blog.

I used to manually put the filenames into each post in order to get the pictures to show up here. After years of doing that, I remembered that I can make computers do anything I want and decided to make the computer do it for me.

It’s nothing fancy but it does exactly what I need it to do. It creates all of the html code and inserts filenames based on the files in a folder that I specify.

If anyone’s interested, leave a comment or email me and I can give you more info on it. If you want, I could make one specifically for you. Free of course; it wouldn’t take long.

Here’s a picture of the program (click it to enlarge):

Picture Blog Link Maker

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7.09.2009, Thu
I’ve Been Programming

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category: computer

I bet my dad will be happy to read that.

I spent all night programming. I’ll probably finish at work tomorrow. When I’m done, it will be a lot easier for me to put my pictures on my blog. I’ll try it out tomorrow and hopefully get some pictures up.

Check out this link in the meantime:
http://ihardlyknowher.com/madmil
It has all of the pictures from my flickr page on a plain white background.

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11.10.2008, Mon
Get Your Own Web Hosting

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categories: computer, web hosting

I spent about 2 hours Saturday helping a friend get web hosting and other internet related items set up. I got them set up on Dreamhost which is the host that I use and I personally think is great.

I found out that they allow each person who has an account with them to create their own promo codes which allow a new subscriber to get some super-special deal that lets more people consider hosting their own website.

The one that I created for my friend gives her one free domain name which is free forever. This is in addition to the domain name that Dreamhost gives new subscribers for the first year. So she saves $10 a year for as long as she leaves that domain name with Dreamhost. She can take her hosting elsewhere and leave that domain name with Dreamhost and never have to pay for it ever!

They are also currently offering unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space for any of their plans. A year of unlimited hosting and unlimited bandwidth at Dreamhost goes for $119.40. That was the best deal that I found when I was looking and it’s the one that I recommend to anyone who is just starting out. After the year is up, you can decide then if you want to get a two or more year plan. The longer the plan, the bigger the discount.

Click this link and enter Jermil into the promo code section to get a free lifetime domain name in addition to the one that Dreamhost gives you for free. I wish someone had that code for me when I was starting out! I think there’s a limited number of people who can use that one. If you try to use it and can’t, let me know and I’ll look into creating a new one.

If you need help getting things started once you sign up, I’ll be happy to help. Just think… soon you could have a moderately popular blog (and way more cool stuff) like me! :wink:

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5.13.2008, Tue
Nerd Work

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categories: computer, geeks, work

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Traffic Light Under Study For RemovalI haven’t programmed in C++ in a good while. Life was good. I was using Visual Basic .NET and a smidge of C# and SQL stuff. Sounds like fun huh???

If your eyes are glazing over and your brain is shutting down already, you can skip to the end of this post and check out an update.

With this new team, I have to program in C++ on a Ubuntu Linux machine. I haven’t used Linux or Solaris since college. It sucked then. Surprisingly, it still sucks.

Anyway, I haven’t programmed in C++ in forever. I forgot how to use it. I had to google search the syntax for an “if statement” (one of the simplest things ever).

So I was trying to do a printf on a string. That basically means I was trying to output text to the screen. But apparently printf doesn’t work too well with strings and I was getting a wicked warning that looked like this:
warning: cannot pass objects of non-POD type ’struct std::string’ through ‘…’; call will abort at runtime

I had no idea what it meant and figured it was just a warning so I could ignore it. But that makes the program not work at all. Hence the mention of abortion.

What I had to do was use the c_str method. Whatever the variable name was, I had to change it to:
variablename.c_str()

Fascinating!!!



***Update on the Cat Piss Plant’s Performance***

My cat piss pot is THRIVING!!! I took these pictures last night.

Cat Piss Plant SeedlingsCat Piss Plant Seedlings

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12.13.2007, Thu
Windows Forums are your Friend

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categories: computer, food, pictures

My computer was sickly the past couple days. I almost swore off Windows for the rest of eternity. I won’t go into details but I’ll give a word to the wise. The Windows forums can be your friend in your time of need.

I was so excited, I made green eggs and ham. Well… eggs with green things in it and some ham.

green eggs and ham

Bedtime though. Be well.

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