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Ambrotype Repair Final: part 5 of 5

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Wed, 8 Jan 2014 11:09:00 -0800

I finally finished the broken ambrotype right before Christmas. I needed it for a Christmas gift for my Aunt. She had broken the photo when she was a little girl about 60 years ago - and for Christmas she got it back looking like new - maybe even better than new.
The process required lots of clone tool, heal tool, and artistic patience. Obviously if there was a crack you have to cover that crack up with parts of the image that aren't damaged. Repair takes time and a good eye.

I think the final outcome was pretty good.

Below is the original damaged photo

Scroller Animation Resources

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:44:00 -0800

Scroll activated website animations are so hot right now. Oh my gosh sooooo hot. Here are some resources.

Git resources

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:48:00 -0800

A List apart article of Git

Game Development Links

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:45:00 -0800

HTML 5 game dev

Building html5 game with Phaser

SCIRRA Construct 2

Java Games

Facebook Game

Facebook game

GoDaddy.com Edit Name Servers

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 5 Dec 2013 07:01:00 -0800

PHP and Class Variables

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:07:00 -0800

Pass a variable into a class through the __construct($variable) function

Variables set in the __Construct can be referenced throughout the class as $this->variable

Can be referenced outside the class as
$Class->variable

Variable Can be passed into a class function like Class::function(variable);

Learn Python through using public data

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 05:41:00 -0800

Animated PDF

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:33:00 -0800

a link for later!!!!
Animated PDF

iPad Display Stand for POS

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:55:00 -0800

This is a cool site that sales display stands for iPads. I'm considering something like this for one of my clients >> Check it out

C++ understanding fstream

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:24:00 -0800

My brain choked the other day when dealing with the ifstream method inside of the the fstream directive. I just couldn't wrap my brain around how the ifstream associates variable values. My friend told me that I was an idiot. He explained that ifstream works the same way that cin works.

basically
lets say you have a text file that is called names.txt and the file looks like this
Johnny Bobby Dave Suzy
Now you want to assign those values to variables using ifstream

Using 4 variables (name1, name2, name3, name4) you'd just say
ifstream inputFile;
inputFile >> name1 >> name2 >> name3 >> name4;
Just like it would look with cin
cin >> name1 >> name2 >> name3 >> name4;
C++ doesn't care if the input is coming from a text file or a keyboard. Duh.

C++ assigning values to arrays

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:02:00 -0800

If you need to assign values to a two dimensional array use a nested "for" loop

ex:
const int ROW = 3;
const int COLS = 2;
int arrayN[ROW][COLS];
int counter1, counter2;

for(counter1 = 0; counter1 < ROW; counter1++)
{ for(counter2 = 0; counter2 < COLS; counter2++)
   {
    cin >> arrayN[counter1][counter2];
   }
}

When spitting an array out

for(counter1 = 0; counter1< COLS; counter1++)
{ for(counter2 = 0; counter2 < ROW; counter2++)
   {
    cout << arrayN[counter1][counter2];
   }
}

PHP Resources

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:34:00 -0800

Everyone could use a new trick or for their PHP bag. Here are some great resources that might just do the trick.

Php Tips and Tricks

Village Host Pizza Lexington KY

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:20:00 -0800

I had the pleasure of eating at Village Host Pizza in downtown Lexington this weekend. I had the cheeseburger pizza. It was pretty good, however the thing to get at this restaurant is the salad bar. It might just have the best salad bar in Lexington .

Christmas Chimes

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:19:00 -0800

I wish this was better. It is a little slow. The bells aren't on pitch. It is just not as great as I would like.

Christmas favorites

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:19:00 -0800

Fantastic compilation of singers who where hot back in the day. Any Williams, Robert Goulet, Barbara Streisand - you name it. Great record

Christmas Strings

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:18:00 -0800

Fantastic record by the Herald Singing Strings playing some classic instrumentals of Christmas favorites. Great great great. The record was totally worn down.

Merry Christmas from Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:17:00 -0800

I absolutely love the happy sounding Lawrence Welk orchestra. These Christmas classics have the added flavor that Welks arrangements have. Some how he manages to make happy Christmas songs even happier!. Great.

Curl

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:09:00 -0800

curl XML on stack

HTTP Authentication with CURL

Command Line Curl

Instagram oauth with Curl

The best no nonesense curl resource on Codular

Asp.net Resources

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:56:00 -0800

I never thought in a million years that I would be learning how to develop on Microsoft platforms. I'm not exactly an enthusiast at this point, but I'm having to learn C# and ASP.net after the main developer at work left. Below is a series of resources that I've found helpful thus far.

Resources for Putting a SSD in an old Mac Book Pro

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Wed, 6 Nov 2013 11:19:00 -0800

I've wanted to upgrade my Mac Book Pro hard drive for some time now and I'm considering a SSD. Here is an article on doing just that. Installing a SSD in Mac Book Pro
Corsair 360 GB SSD

Sitecore Rocks Resources

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Tue, 5 Nov 2013 10:10:00 -0800

Sitecore Rocks Plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio

OverView of Sitecore Rocks

Of note is how to connect a VS solution to your sitecore layouts.
This is the mother load Simplify Visual Studio Project Creation
Create a Visual Studio 2010 Project for a Sitecore Solution
Sitecore website needs to compile?
C# Tutorials
Sitecoreblog by Alex Shyba

Returning Multiple Values with a Function in PHP

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:45:00 -0700

As I'm coding I try to package my code in useful pieces that make it easy to understand what is going on in my programs. What that means in practice is using functions to do the packaging. Functions are just actions that can include multiple statements and do multiple things. If variables are the nouns of your program then a function is the verb. Functions are sometimes also referred to as methods.

Anyways, one action you might want a function to do is return a value. To do this you may have a function fetch results from a database or perform some equation base on a value being passed to the function. For example I could make a function that adds 10 to a value.

function addTen($number) {
$sum = $number + 10;
return $sum;
}
echo addTen(5);

In the above example I have a function called addTen that is passed a number and returns that number with 10 added to it. In order to have the code spit out the value you just echo out the function. Pretty simple

Returning Multiple Values

A function returning one variable is easy. Functions are meant to return a variable. Having a function return multiple variables is a little more complicated. The way it is achieved is with an array.

Arrays are variables with multiple values. An example of an array might be a variable called $color. There are many colors, so it would make sense to create our variable $color using an array. To make an array you declare the variable and specify the values like so: $color = array(red,blue,green,black); You access the values by specifying the key (Pointing at which value you want). To access red you would: echo $color[0]; Arrays start with 0 as the first value. Another type of array are associative arrays. These types of arrays have user defined keys instead of the default numbered keys. For example I could have and array of the traits of a person: $person = array( 'name' => 'Jason', 'address' => '123 Main St.', 'age' => '25'); To access Jason's address you would echo $person['address'];

So that brings us to the main objective here: Creating a function that returns multiple values.

// This is handy if you had a function that could do a database call and return a bunch of values. You could then access those values as an array

function animals() {
$dog = "odie";
$cat = "garfield";
$rabbit = "bugs";
$donkey = "eeyore";

$animals = array (
dog => $dog,
cat => $cat,
rabbit => $rabbit,
donkey => $donkey
);

return $animals;
}
// set variable equal to the function returning the array

$animals = animals();

//access the values through the keys of the array

echo $animals['dog'];
echo "
";
echo $animals['cat'];
echo "
";

This method has all sorts of uses. This is extremely useful when dealing with a database and you want to consolidate your fetch operations in a function but want to separate your styling code from the function.

Hope you find this useful!

Passing SESSION variables between Domain and Subdomain

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:03:00 -0700

An issue I came across recently was that when I set a Session variable at the subdomain level of my site I couldn't access that session variable at the root level. In other words, when I set $_SESSION['name']= "John"; at http://john.harbison.com I couldn't access $_SESSION['name'] at www.harbison.com. That sucks! I did find the answer though thanks to Jeroen on Stack Overflow.

The solution is to give your SESSION a Name! You need to name the session before you even start the session. So here is the code:

$some_name = session_name("some_name");
session_set_cookie_params(0, '/', '.some_domain.com');
session_start();

I love the internet!

Make Subdomain a Variable with PHP

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:10:00 -0700

I wanted to create a dynamic page using a subdomain as a variable. What a user would do is put in a subdomain and it would pull up a page based off of that subdomain. For example: A user would type in http://car.file-drive.com and it would pull up a picture of a car. Of course car could be anything. It could be a list of names or anything at all. The way that it works is with a Wildcard subdomain. Here are the steps to do this.

1. Setup Wildcard Subdomain at your domain Registrar

You can skip this step if you host your dns record locally or with your hosting provider. I don't so I had to add the Wildcard record. My registrar is Godaddy so I just logged in, edited my DNS record and added a new CNAME record. I set the Host to * and it POINTS TO @

2. Setup Wildcard Subdomain with Web Host

My web host is Host Gator. I had to log in to the CPANEL and navigate to the subdomain settings. I added a new wildcard subdomain here for File-drive.com. So the settings again were * which is the character that means "any" just like a wild card in poker which can be any card. If this is an "add on" domain you'll need to point the subdomain to the proper root directory of your domain. File-drive is an add on so I had to point * to public_html/file-drive.com

3. Use PHP to Pull out the Variable

Now that the wildcard subdomain is set my domain can have any and as many subdomains as I want. What we have to do from this point is to break apart the url and get the variable from the subdomain. Will use

<?php $subdomain = array_shift(explode(".",$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])); ?>

to get the subdomain and set it to $subdomain.

At this point you can do all sorts of things. You could echo or print out the subdomain. You could make a database call using the subdomain variable. You could do pretty much anything you want to.
Enjoy!

Add A Google Map to Wordpress Contact Page

solidoxygen@insightbb.com (Solidoxygen) — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:54:00 -0700

This tutorial is assuming you know how to create a page or a post in Wordpress. Additionally this will provide info to add a map to any page, not just a contact page.

Get your Map code

Goto Google and Google the address you want to get your map for - click on the map picture that results. If that doesn't work goto https://maps.google.com/ and do your search.
Once the result is displayed change your view to whatever you want to display on your page. You might change to a satellite view or a traffic. You may want to tweak other settings in this window. If it is displaying on this page then it will display on your page
Click the Link Icon (photo below 1.)

Click and copy the <iframe> code (Photo above 2.)
Go to WordPress and click to edit the page/post you want to add your map to

In your editor Click "Text" tab (Photo above 1.) If you have content on this page already you will need to place your cursor after/before the content you would like the map displayed
Update or Save your page/post

To Resize the Google Map

If your map isn't the size you want you can edit the code that Google supplies and change the size.

In the code that you pasted above look for the Width and Height Parameters. It should look like: <iframe width="425" height="350" . . . . These parameters describe the size of the map that displays
To make the width larger type in a larger number. I changed mine from 425 to 800. This is in Pixel increments. This number should be less that 1028
To make the height of your map larger edit the height="350" value. Change the 350 to something larger. I used 700.
Once you've set the correct sizes click Update and save your post
Be sure to leave the "Quotation Marks" around the numerical value

Good Luck!