When I'm 30 - Part 1: Quick list

February 9, 2008
James Skemp

Recently, I've been thinking a lot about where I'd like to be when I get older. For as long as I can remember I've been thinking ahead - it's just the way I am. The time frame has spanned from a mere hours from the present, to a number of years. Thirty (30), though, is a pretty special kind of birthday. The fact that it's about 3 years and 3 months away for me, makes it even particularly more so.

February 8, 2008
James Skemp

After a deal of searching, I've finally discovered why my Firefox browser was crashing so often. So often, in fact, that I have Internet Explorer 7 a chance (and it showed how much of a fight it can now put up). The short story: don't enable Firebug for all sites. Gmail has recently been warning about this, stating that slow-downs are likely. One config setting, javascript.options.strict, when set to true, can also cause issues with Google AdSense.

February 7, 2008
James Skemp

Special edition over my lunch break ... It seems Mitt Romney, former presidential hopeful, has withdrawn from the race. Guardian Unlimited quotes him as such: "In this time of war I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," he told the Conservative Political Action Committee As with the 2004 race, once again a Republican is stating that a Democrat president would result in the United States surrendering to terror (sadly, it doesn't look like that piece was moved over to the site, but I'll see if I can't dig it up and re-post it tonight).

February 6, 2008
James Skemp

Yes, I'm still alive, I'm just not posting ... Since Friday I've been fighting a cold/flu, and the cold weather hasn't much helped. However, last Saturday morning I was feeling better, and along with lunch, picked up a camera I'll be writing about once this cold is dead. Another camera? I've still got my Canon 350D, but I haven't used it since it's gotten so cold. I decided that if I picked up a point-and-shoot camera I'd probably take more pictures.

January 21, 2008
James Skemp

In a previous post, I posted the code I used for a ColdFusion regular expression tester. This time I've got an attempt at a JavaScript version. There's a number of TODOs, but ... <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>JavaScript Regular Expression Tester</title> <style type="text/css"> #form_help { float:right; font-size:.8em; width:50%; } #form_results { margin:1em; width:45%; } .highlight { background-color:#ff9; } #form_highlighttext { border:1px dashed #ccc; margin-left:1em; width:45%; } </style> <script type="

January 21, 2008
James Skemp

The below information is correct for version 9.1. Comments on other versions are appreciated. With flash drives becoming more and relevant, it's always good to find programs that can be run on these powerful drives. <oXygen/> XML Editor is one such program. Making <oXygen/> portable On the official site, there's a post regarding making <oXygen/> portable. However, what does it really involve? Easily enough, it doesn't involve much more than is stated in the post.

January 18, 2008
James Skemp

I'm a statistics kind of guy. I like numbers, since they're logical. I also like trends, and all that. So, here's a look at the current trends for what it takes to get into the top 25k, 50k, 75k, 100k, 150k, 200k, and 300k in the various game modes in Warhawk. Undoubtedly I'll have another post like this next month, around the same time. With over 417,000 players, total, these equate to around the top 6%, 12.

January 14, 2008
James Skemp

Right before Christmas of 2007, I purchased a copy of Warhawk, for the Playstation 3. I didn't pick it up until the day after Christmas (what a bad idea; I should have just purchased in store, but ...) and have played a mere 16 hours (94 games). With my total points of 1153, I'm only 113315 out of the 410195 players, world wide. Granted, that's not too terribly bad, but I need to make a goal if I'm going to apply myself.

January 10, 2008
James Skemp

I stumbled upon some code I had written back in September, for testing regular expressions. This uses ColdFusion, and is currently 'running' on ColdFusion MX 6.1 and ColdFusion 7.0. It's a pity to not make it available, since it's such an easy template ... <!--- --- --- DESCRIPTION: Basic way to test a regular expression. CALLED BY: ??? CALLS: ??? ASSUMPTIONS: ??? MODIFICATION HISTORY: DATE USER ACTION 09/24/2007 J.Skemp Created template.

January 9, 2008
James Skemp

The other day, after a deal of research, I decided to pick up a copy of <oXygen/>, which is "a complete cross platform XML editor providing the tools for XML authoring, XML conversion, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, XPath, XSLT, XQuery debugging, SOAP and WSDL testing." This provided to be the key to finally understanding XML Schema, or at least getting a working Schema for an XML file.

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When I'm 30 - Part 1: Quick list

Firebug: Don't enable for every site

Romney: A vote for a democrat president aids a surrender to terror

Still alive ...

Regular Expression tester - JavaScript

Making oXygen XML Editor (9.1) portable

Warhawk: Game Mode: Top 25,000(s) Analysis - 1/18/2008

Warhawk: January 2008 goals

Regular Expression tester - ColdFusion

XML Schema article coming soon

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