Monday, June 26th, 2006

Most of you know that I work for the University of Waterloo in IT. Specifically, I work in the Housing and Residences department and am a member of the Housing Technology (ResNet) team. When I started here I did tech support type work and occasionally did some projects to fill certain needs in Visual Basic. [...]

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Its back! The 48 hour game programming competition. I signed up to find out all the info but its this weekend so I won’t be able to actually participate. Maybe next time (although I said that for the 7th one too).
Here is the info for those that are interested.
Starting: April 28 2006 11:00 PM EST [...]

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Recently I have been learning the basics of PHP with regards to web applications. So far I have touched on MySQL queries, login/password storage and forms authentication, sessions and authenticated user session security.
I am working on a personal project called bookkeeper which is a database for the books that I have read and what I [...]

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

I just finished up the graphics section that I added a link to a couple weeks back. It contains tutorials in PowerPoint form, supporting example code and a section of links relevant to OpenGL programming. This stuff was all originally created for a fourth year graphics course that I was a teachers assistant for at [...]

Monday, February 20th, 2006

I have finished the initial version of the date control. I think it improves on some of the designs I have seen around this last week.
Here are the finer points:

Completely JavaScript/CSS/XHTML built so no server side stuff is required.
No tables at all in the calendar control so the design is more flexible and easier to [...]

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

I am working on a very simple JavaScript popup calendar control for people to use in their web forms. I tried using the ASP.Net one but it has several problems.
ASP.Net Calendar Issues:

Clicking on the calendar for changing months or selecting days requires a post back and requires extra Page_Load code to pass by any processing [...]

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

I have now spent a bit of time playing around with AJAX using it in a few of my web applications. Essentially AJAX boils down to one thing: The XMLHTTPRequest Object. Some people will probably disagree with me on that point but all the fancy JavaScript is just that, it is not very novel by [...]