::Chris.Hallgren

"I don't get even, I get odder." Thinkgeek Proverb

Brightkite PHP Scripts Saturday July 18th 2009 23:42:09 CDT
challgren	So I'm my year of using Brightkite I've written a couple PHP scripts that add some cool features to Brightkite. 1: An auto accept friend script. To use this set the bkacceptfriends('username', 'password'); to what you want. Then run this via a crontab entry every hour or so. It will automatically accept your friends and add them as trusted. 2: Google Code post-commit web hook. This script allows you to post details of a Google Code commit to Brightkite. You can see this in action at @brightberry. The script requires some setup which is found at the top of the file.
	Tags: Brightkite, API, Coding, PHP
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BrightBerry Tuesday June 2nd 2009 16:58:34 CDT
challgren	So many of you are seeing posts about BrightBerry. More details can be found at bbhn.mobi. I'll be posting a bit more when I finally get time to focus on the app.
	Tags: API, BrightBerry, Brightkite, Programs, Coding
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SVN Friday June 6th 2008 05:26:40 CDT
challgren	This site is now using SVN for version control to help prevent me from deleting stupid files and having to recreate them.
	Tags: SVN, Coding, Blog
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Ok site is fixed somewhat Monday May 26th 2008 06:36:48 CDT
challgren	Ok so the past 4 days have been a coding frenzy. I ended up deleting a couple files on my site. One was for the editprofile for users. Then I started working on a patch for eTicket. The patch was to move from an old method of storing settings to a newer method. There's some other details I won't go into. But pretty much I had to write the patch twice. While using PHPed I ended up uploading the eticket project to my main site and deleting the index page and the rss feed generator. So I learned about the value of backups. And because of that I setup my fileserver at home to accept FTP connections from the server so I can keep backups of all the sites on it. So just now I finished regenerating the index page and rss generator. So now I can sleep well tonight.
	Tags: Blog, Coding
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Another new feature Saturday May 17th 2008 14:23:46 CDT
challgren	Yep, I'm on a roll the past 2 days. I just added a Word Cloud to my site. It works perfect with my new tagging for entries.
	Tags: New Feature, Coding, Blog, PHP
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Changes for people using RSS Saturday May 17th 2008 02:37:30 CDT
challgren	For those of you that read this blog via RSS. You will need to fix your rss reader to use the new URL which is http://www.challgren.com/rss.php. The old feed http://www.challgren.com/syn.php will dissappear with in the next week.
	Tags: Blog, RSS
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Finished category support Saturday May 17th 2008 02:04:07 CDT
challgren	So category support is finished. You can view entries by category. I also optimized some of the back end code and reduce some files sizes. I found out that I was duplicating a lot of code so I elimitated it and made functions for retrieving icons and tag for entries. The site is coming along. I plan on making the pages bio, contact, wishlist, programs, and hardware all database driven instead of being stored in files.
	Tags: Blog, Coding, New Feature, AJAX, PHP, Planned Features
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New feature added to my blog Friday May 16th 2008 19:52:15 CDT
challgren	Just added a new feature to my blog. I add support for tagging entries with a category. The code you can't see because it is part of posting entries. But the code uses a bit of AJAX borrowed from Yahoo. It allows me to tag the entry and pull up previous tags I've used. It's really cool.
	Tags: Blog, Coding, New Feature, AJAX, PHP
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Update on my life Sunday May 11th 2008 23:23:03 CDT
challgren	So I figured I would update on the past week. So Monday, I was experiencing some visual disturbances in my left field of vision. I was sitting watching TV eating Chicken Tenders. I called the IL Eye Bank and spoke with my friend over there. Her husband told me to go to an ophthalmologist because I was only seeing a tiny spot in my field of vision. It progressively got worse. I was on the phone with an ophthalmologist and he told me to go to the ER. So I called over to the immediate care center and they told me to go to the ER. So I ended up doing what the typical health care provider does and drove myself to the ER. When I got there I was almost immediately seen.
	Tags: Health, Hospital, TIA, Vision, Life
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Accused music pirate turns the tables on the RIAA Friday May 2nd 2008 00:36:22 CDT
challgren	Check out Accused music pirate turns the tables on the RIAA on my favorite site Geeks are Sexy. Finally someone turns the tables and sues these fucks. I personally refused to purchase any music or even download it. The only music I download is from Dance Factory and the money you spend goes straight to the artists.
	Tags: Humor, RIAA
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