Messages

walker says he just got "the bar" workin' #
walker wishes he knew if he has all the right parts for his cellular repeater. #
walker needs to wait one minute more. #
walker hates disorganization and the resultant poor communication. #
walker wants all the guys to know that we're having a guys night out at Club Foot on friday! #
walker is rockin' out to Dinosaur Sounds. #
walker loves burgers and black & tans at Monk's. #
walker can't believe he just broke the face on his iPhone! Why didn't the case protect it! #
walker hopes he can last through this day (rough). #
walker loves drinkin' coffee and watchin' the woods. #

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walkerhamilton: says he just got "the bar" workin' - http://bkite.com/012yO #
walkerhamilton: says he just got "the bar" workin' #
walkerhamilton: hates disorganization and the resultant poor communication. - http://bkite.com/011K7 #
walkerhamilton: hates disorganization and the resultant poor communication. #
walkerhamilton: loves burgers and black & tans at Monk's. - http://bkite.com/010M8 #
walkerhamilton: loves burgers and black & tans at Monk's. #
walkerhamilton: can't believe he just broke the face on his iPhone! Why didn't the case protect it! - http://bkite.com/010lW #
walkerhamilton: can't believe he just broke the face on his iPhone! Why didn't the case protect it! #
walkerhamilton: is about to pass out after a long weekend of wedding festivities. - http://bkite.com/00ZDT #
walkerhamilton: is about to pass out after a long weekend of wedding festivities. #

Bookmarks

CrunchBase API
A JSON read-only API for accessing information within the CrunchBase directory.
The Cassandra Project
Open-source project from Facebook that is essentially a variant Big Table implementation.
Yahoo! BOSS
Yahoo!'s "Build your Own Search Service" opens up a JSON/XML api for search results.
Protocol Buffers
Google's open-sourced protocol buffers for creating your own protocol and then creating a c, java, or python compiled executable that will parse binary versions of that protocol.
FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
A free, open source codec for lossless audio compression and decompression
Fluke
Applescript that installs all the items you need to listen to FLAC files in iTunes on your mac.
Show Design
Show the block-level element of a web page.
Paparazzi!
An OS X utility for taking screenshots of websites only.
Pivotal Labs
The company hired as a "fix-it" strike force for twitter.
Gnip: We got $h*t to pop
"Making data portability suck less." (I love the title on their homepage)

Videos

Taste of Chaos Tour

Taste of Chaos Tour

My little stitched together video of some Avenged Sevenfold movies I took at the Taste of Chaos tour.

Cast: Walker Hamilton

Bless The Fall

Bless The Fall

Bless the Fall opened the Taste of Chaos Tour at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, IL. They were so amazing it hurt to watch the headliners!

Cast: Walker Hamilton

Avenged Sevenfold (Taste of Chaos Tour)

Avenged Sevenfold (Taste of Chaos Tour)

Cast: Walker Hamilton

The Post Family @ Letterform

The Post Family @ Letterform

Cast: Walker Hamilton

Letterform Holiday Craft Fair

Letterform Holiday Craft Fair

Julie Morelli & Andy Schwegler held a little holiday craft fair at their studio sunday, December 16th.

Cast: Walker Hamilton

Weblog

Obama in Berlin

Barack Obama spoke in Berlin today. It streamed live on his site using ustream.tv and topped 40000 viewers at one point! Apparently, ustream can handle quite the load.

Obama also had an awesome publicity poster, flyer, etc for the event.

Defending Against It

I have completed wlk_defensio, a plugin utilizing the Defensio spam-fighting service. I started developing this thing awhile ago but got side-tracked with other responsibilities. While I wasn’t paying attention, the Defensio guys added OpenID logins to the accounts on their service. I love OpenID and so this only added to the pleasure I have found with their quality service.

CakePHP Radio Fieldsets

Josh needed to output a cakePHP radio button set without the radio button’s around it. We looked at the API, the docs, etc. We just could not figure it out ( 'fieldset'=>false ? or maybe 'fieldset'=>null ?). Nope.

So Josh went off looking and found out you just set 'legend'=>false in the input option’s array:

echo $form->input('user_need', array('option'=>$radios, 'legend'=>false));

…yes, a user can only have one need at a time….muwahaha

Also, you can also select which radio button is “active” on page load using “checked”=>[the value].

Fixing cakeAMFphp in cake1.2

We were in the process of updating an older application to work with AMFPHP and cake1.2. We were getting some fairly serious errors on the AMFPHP connection.

We found that one part of the fix was to comment out line 177 in cake_gateway.php and add in a require_once of your app_controller.php file. (This assumes you have an application directory-level app_controller.php file.)

//loadController(null);
require_once('app_controller.php');

We were unable to get App::import(), the new method of loading items in cakePHP 1.2, to work in a similar manner as the loadController() method.

Is this plugin helpful?

Here’s a new plugin called wlk_helpful. I just finished the installation portion of the plugin this evening (auto-creation of the database tables).

This is a Textpattern article rating plugin that allows users to give a thumbs up or down (yes/no, plus/minus) to an article. There is also a function that you can then use to then display a list of the most popular (positive rating) or least popular (negative rating) articles.

You can download it here. There’s also a javascript file you’ll need to make it work that can be downloaded here

This particular plugin makes liberal use of jQuery (included in your Textpattern 4.0.5 directory) to make it work well using ajax queries. Also, because of some extra work I put in on this one, you can place <txp:wlk_helpful /> in an article form that shows up in, say, a list and it will still work just fine.

Just make sure you follow the installation directions which include the creation of the page that will accept the ajax requests.

Big ups to Jon Greene & Josh Minnich for helping me out on this one.