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Got my hands on a CM Storm Sentinel mouse

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:19:26 +0000

I just got my hands on a brand new CM Storm Sentinel mouse and its the probably the best mouse I have ever used. Wait… it is the best mouse I ever used. This mouse first off is very well built the size is just perfect for my hands ( I have large hands ) so i find it very comfortable. It comes with 7 programmable buttons, rapid fire, a bunch of different lighting and color combination, as well as u can upload your own image to the led display. The mouse also has 5 weights added to the bottom of the mouse so users can adjust how heavy or light they want their mouse to be.

The button positioning is perfect usually after a few hours of gaming my thumb start getting numb from moving back and forth but this mouse has it the right spot… well at least for me. Anyways this mouse is great you can get more info by clicking the thumb below.

Numbers

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:07:29 +0000

Doing math in php

$variable = value * value
$variable = value + value
$variable = value – value
$variable = value / value

Formatting Numbers

Rounding numbers – rounds values to specified decimal places. It can be number or variables. There is an option that allow users to round too the number of decimal places.

Example:
round (6.20); = 6
round (6.369, 2); = 6.37
$number = 694.2783;
round ($number); = 694

Number format – works like round but adds commas in the to numbers.
number_format (6.2243, 2); = 6.22
number_format (69, 2); = 69.00
number_format (123456789); = 123,456,789

Precedence - the order in which calculations are made.

8 – 4 / 2 = 6 and not 2 because division comes first.

To avoid this use ()
(8 – 4) /2 ) = 2
8 – (4 / 2 ) = 6

Incrementing and decrementing a number add or subtracts 1 value
$var++; or $var–; this will give the value +1 or -1 effect.

Creating random numbers

rand()

$n = rand();- this generate random number
$n = rand(0,100); – this generate random number 0 to 100

Other types are getrandmax() – get height random number
mt_rand() – it suppose to work better then rand and great for cryptography.

These notes are from PHP for the World Wide Web, Third Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) written by Larry Ullman. In order to make sense of my notes you should pruchase the PHP book its very well written and easy to follow.

Wordpress won’t Upload my image fix

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:21:25 +0000

So I recently moved one of my wordpress site from one spot to another. Well that no biggy but the problem was I couldn’t upload images. I was baffled for half an hour why my image wouldn’t upload to the upload folder. Or why my image wasn’t being displayed. So after a little bit of playing I found out the problem and here how I fixed it.

Go to Wordpress backend and go to Settings\Miscellaneous. The go to the Store uploads in this folder and edit the directory to the proper lockation.

A simple fix but lots of hair pulling!

Creating Forms with HTML and PHP

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:06:02 +0000

Forms

Code to generate forms goes between

tags. In the opening form tag also contains an action attribute. This indicates which page the form data should submit.

There are two methods of transmitting data from the form to the handling script. They are GET and POST. The GET method sends all the gathered information along as part of the url. The Post method sends the data invisibly.

Example of the GET method.

http://www.blah.com/page.php?var=value&blah…

Example of the POST method.

http://www.blah.com/page.php

Notes to keep in mind about GET method.

GET method is limited amount of data that can be transferred.
Data can be view publicly which may cause security risk.
A page created by GET method can be bookmarked.
GET pages can be reloaded POST pages will have a confirmation box

To used the form data submitted users need to use predefined variables. They are $_GET and $_POST they are used based on which type of method is picked when generating the form. If the method was post then use $_POST if the method was GET then use $_GET. Also the variable must be typed with all caps cause it is case sensitive.

Sample code form.html

Comments:

Sample code display_form.php

$comments = $_POST['comments'];
print “
Thank you for the comment
$comments
”;
?>

PHP Variable Notes

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:50:04 +0000

Variable – is like a magic box that stores information once the information is stored in the box it can be changed, or taken out to be displayed.

All variable names must be have a dollar sign “$” at the start of the variable.

After the dollar sign “$” the variable name must start with a letter “A-Z” or “a-z” or a underscore “_” it cannot start with a number

After the “$” the rest of the name can be any combination of letters, numbers, and underscores.

Spaces can’t be used in variable names please use underscores “_” to represent spaces

Variable names are case sensitive so “$_cat” and “$_Cat” is different. (Try not to use variable with same names to reduce confusion).

Tips on creating variables

Always use lowercase on variable names
Always make your variable name descriptive
Always comment the purpose of the variables
Always try to defined all variables before use even though PHP doesn’t require it.

Variable Types

Numbers

There are two types of numbers in PHP Integers and floating-point. Integers are whole numbers that can be both positive or negatives but cannot have fractions of decimals. Floating-point numbers are use to if numbers have decimal places. (The only way to use fraction in PHP is to covert to decimals).

Integer = 1 or -1

Floating-point = 1.02 or -1.02

Strings

A string is any number of characters enclosed in single or double quotation marks ’string’ or “string”. Strings can be numbers letters symbols and spaces. Stings can also contain variables. Strings can only contain 1 value.

To use quotation marks in a string use the backslash \.
Example: “Yo, “ho ho!”" would have to be written “Yo, \”hoho!\”" in order for it to display properly.

Different quotation marks can be used to fix the problem.
Example: “Yo, ‘ho ho!’” or ‘Yo, “ho ho!”‘.

Arrays

Arrays can contain a list of values so users can put multiple strings and numbers in to one array.

Array uses keys to create and retrieve that values stored. Php has two different types of arrays. An “Indexed array” uses numbers for its keys. An “Associative array” uses strings for its keys. An array containing other arrays is called a “multidimensional array”.

Assigning Values to Variables

To assign a value to a variable the user must use the = sign. The equal sign is called the “assignment operator” because it assigns a value to the variable.

Variable assignment operator value
$string = “Yo Ho!”;

Differences between Quotation marks ‘/”

Single quotation marks ” are treated literally
Double Quotation marks take the value of the variable.

These notes are from PHP for the World Wide Web, Third Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) written by Larry Ullman. In order to make sense of my notes you should pruchase that excellent PHP book its very well written and easy to follow.

Cooler Master’s Storm Sentinel Advance Gaming Mouse

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:55:49 +0000

The guys over at Coolermaster are getting ready to release a new gaming mouse with some really cool features. First off the mouse comes with different lighting effects for the top of the mouse and front of the mouse and when you click on the mouse in rapid fire mode the lights in the front suppose to shoot out light beams! Hahaha that so sick! But not just that the mouse light can change to several different colors! Bring on the green laser beams!

The OLED display allows users to adjust the Sentinel gaming mouse up to 5000 DPI. Another neat feature that was thrown in to the mouse is users can upload there logo into the gaming mouse and the logo will display on the OLED.

Finally the mouse comes with 8 buttons and the ability to save user profiles and not to mention the shape of the mouse looks like it’s going to be a very comfortable one. The mouse has also been fitted with twin-laser sensors for amazing accuracy that gamers now need. Let hope when the Cooler Master Storm Sentinel mouse hits the stores it can compete with all the other fancy gaming mouse out there.

**video/images from tweaktown**

How to change wordpress URL setting back to original URL.

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:49:25 +0000

I was playing with my blog I changed the wordpress address (URL) settings under general settings. This cause some problems obviously it pretty much broke my wordpress and most of my functions didn’t work. So after taking sometime trying to figure out how to revert my settings I finally figured it out!

First you have to go in to the SQL database (I use phpMyAdmin so I use that to explain how I fixed it from there). In phpMyAdmin go in to your database and got the “wp_options” section.

There you should see “siteurl” under the “option_name” column and right next to it is the “option_value” there you will see your newly entered url.

To change it just click on the edit button and change that current url to what it was originally hit save and everything so be just fine!
Well at least it worked for me ;D

Tutorial On Creating Your Favicon For Yor Website

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:36:00 +0000

So I bet you all wondered like I did how do they create those neat icons on their web site and have it displayed in the bookmarks? Well here a few short steps on how to make one.

First you need to create a image that is 16×16 pixels because this is the size for the icons for the bookmark and browsers. Once you have Create that icon (that one is mine) save it out as a .gif or a png with transparency if you need it.

Next we will go to our favorite web page http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ where they are super nice and have given us a tool to create our favicon! Yes that right we don’t have to install any software just upload and download.

Once you have created your FavIcon for your website upload it somewhere on your website. Please make sure you know where you saved it cause you will need to link back to that file. I put mine in the same wordpress theme folder that I am currently using.

The next step is to open up your page and go to the HEAD section and add the link.

If your using wordpress and uploaded the icon to the theme folder you are using please use the code below. Just copy and paste the code in the HEAD section of that theme.

/favicon.ico”>

Once you’ve added the code save your page and your done.

PHP 101

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:32:44 +0000

I started to pick up PHP and started reading this book PHP for the World Wide Web, Third Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) written by Larry Ullman. Like any good student I like to make notes when I read then type it out mainly just so I can review what I just learned. (yeah it sound geeky but oh well only way i can learn) and since coding has never been my best subject I really do need to type it out over and over again. Anyways I figured I might as well keep my notes on my blog and share with you all. So if your reading my blog and trying to use my notes you should pick up the book too and follow along!

Definition of PHP

originally stood for Personal Home Page but it later changed and it now currently stands for Hypertext Preprocessor

php is an HTML embedded scripting language
php server side language
php allows users to create dyanmic pages
can run only on Php enabled web servers.

Basic PHP Syntax

PHP scripts should be save as a .php file
place php code within php code ?> tags

open “php”

closed “?>“

php statements must end with “;” or error will occur.

Function

Functions in php are followed by parentheses () in which arguments are passed to the function.

php is case-insensitive when calling functions (variables are case sensitive in php).

Function: phpinfo()

this function list the spec of the php install on the sever

this is also a great way to test if php was installed properly on the server

Example :

// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL

phpinfo();

// Show just the module information.

// phpinfo(8) yields identical results.

phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);

?>

Function: print()

use to display text or Output a string

strings must be surrounded with ” ” numbers don’t.

Example:

Function: echo()

use to Output one or more strings

Example:

Function: printf()

use to Output one or more strings

Example:

To find more functions go to php.net./manual

Unlock All Street Fighter 4 Characters

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:28:39 +0000

I love Street Fighter! It’s the best fighting game ever created! I started playing this game on the PS3 and I’ve got to say Capcom did a great job on this one. The game play is just solid. Anyways I played so much of it I figured write a small guide on how to unlock all the Street Fighter 4 hidden secret characters. I found one earlier written by gamespot I think and it didn’t really work for me. Anyways here one that worked for me so I hope it works for you. Now without further adieu the steps to unlocking each of the hidden characters.

Unlock Cammy – beat the final boss in arcade mode with Crimson Viper.
Unlock Fei Long – beat the final boss Seth with Abel
Unlock Gen – beat the final boss with Chun Li
Unlock Rose – beat the final boss Seth with M. Bison
Unlock Sakura – beat final boss with Ryu
Unlock Dan – beat final boss with Sakura

Tip: For unlocking the characters above you can use any character you choose. Just make sure you die when you reach the final boss and continue again with the proper character to finish the game.

Unlock Akuma

Keep game timer at 99 seconds

Get 2 perfects and 2 ultra combo finishes (don’t go over or it won’t work).

Don’t use any continues

Unlock Gouken

Keep game timer at 99 seconds

Get 2 perfects and 3 ultra combo finishes

Don’t use any continues or lose any rounds

Unlock Seth – Beat the game with all 24 characters

Final tip I just set the game to the easiest mode with only 1 round. This way I manage to unlock all the characters in a very short period of time.