https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/ 2026-05-29T16:26:37+00:00 https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/ https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:6-22_welcome_to_the_blog&rev=1606060522&do=diff Welcome to the Blog! Here it is, my shiny new blog! The cool part is it is using the Wiki, which means I can transfer stuff I want to keep into the the main pages. In case you are wondering, This site uses Dokuwiki as the engine behind all the pages.The template that provides the navigation menus is a modified version of text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:06-23_maker_faire_2010&rev=1606060521&do=diff Maker Faire 2010 This photo is from the Bay Area Maker Faire Held at the San Mateo Expo Center (a few miles south of San Francisco, CA for those unfamiliar). What a great place it is, over 600 displays of interesting people and stuff they make or things they do. This was our third year attending, one of my Geek Recharge destinations (theres a topic for later). text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:06-24_happy_birthday_to_me&rev=1606060522&do=diff Happy Birthday To Me! From what all the 'old fogeys' I talk to said to me - I'm still young at 45. What did I do for my birthday? Go to the dentist! (no, really - I picked that day). My philosophy on that is it is celebrating a a step in personal progress, something I should do more often and having something like that to checkoff on my to-do list on my birthday, is a good feeling. text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:06-25_malled_communities&rev=1606060521&do=diff Malled Communities I just thought of a new term, “Malled Communities”.... my definition: a walled virtual or technology-based community that offers many shiny things but like malls it all comes with a continuing cost and little control to the user beside purchasing. text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:06-26_parsing_lookup_tables&rev=1606060520&do=diff PHP - Wanted: Improvement in Parsing Lookup Tables This is something I have unsuccessfully been searching for on and off for the past few years. In my work we get lookup tables... Here is a general example, given the Family size in columns 3-7 and the monthly income equal to or greater than the amounts in the rows under the family size, you can determine the rate from column 2 text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:06-27_a_point_on_using_postgresql&rev=1606060521&do=diff A Point on Using PostgreSQL Starting my web development I chose a very wise combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (aka the LAMP stack), and has served me well... One consideration early on was to use PostgreSQL, which is a free SQL implementation. At the time I was having too much frustration with the lack of documentation for it. Now things are different, event ISP support has greatly improved. text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:06-28_a_couple_really_cool_php_libraries&rev=1606060521&do=diff A Couple Really Cool PHP Libraries Create your own PDF documents programmatically with FPDF Want to integrate existing PDFs into the PDFs you create? Then you also want to get the FPDI Libraries that extend FPDF so it can import in PDF pages. ...and a bonus for those who want to do text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:06-29_some_of_my_favorite_software_tools&rev=1606060522&do=diff Some of My Favorite Software Tools Here are some of the Software/Development tools I like, many of which BTW are Open Source and/or free. Inkscape - Great Vector art program. While Photoshop is something a lot of people live by, I prefer to deal with lines and graphs and repositionable objects, for the longest time it was Appleworks Draw then a while with Adobe Illustrator, but given im not rich and I like to share I pick Inkscape for its portability and its price. text/html 2020-11-22T15:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_06:06-30_gotta_start_somewhere&rev=1606060521&do=diff Gotta Start Somewhere For all those interested in programming, here is some code: 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 END Seems pretty stupid, but we all had to start somewhere. Hitting the books is great for knowledge... but the more keyboard time you get the more skilled and experienced you will be.