Ryan Rampersad

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-05

Ryan — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Powered by Ping on the bottom of Yahoo Search: http://yfrog.com/501hgp # Wouldn't it suck if I caught a cold a week before school starts? # The Office WebApp is pretty cool. # WordPress rejected a 7z but accepted a zip. Any way to change that? # Does anyone have any experience in moving a #wordpress [...]

Logitech Performance MX Mouse Review

Ryan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:32:12 +0000

A few weeks ago, I ordered a Logitech Performance MX mouse from Amazon. I’ve struggled with hand pains for as long as I’ve been in high school, so about three years now. This mouse caught my eye a few months ago, but the price tag was too high back then. I bought it for a [...]

Why you shouldn’t use your debit card online

Ryan — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:19:50 +0000

This is a technology centered blog, but every so often I blog about something else. Recently I needed to explain to my grandmother about the folly of using a debit card online. Basically, I crawled the internet for lovely quotes from various entities that could explain why it was a horrible idea to use debit [...]

How The Apple Event Will Go

Ryan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:14:29 +0000

It shouldn’t be hard to imagine how the Apple Event next Wednesday will play out. Every event has a basic setup. Image from Apple Insider. So the event will be like this: Jobs: “Welcome, greetings everyone, it’s great to be here, I’m please you all could join us today too” Jobs: “So, a few numbers [...]

Senior Year Class Schedule

Ryan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:47:18 +0000

It has finally come after a long delay: my senior year class schedule. After I was sent my PSEO rejection letter, I told everyone that my senior year would amount to nothing more than a long nine month vacation and I wasn’t kidding. First Semester Beginning Jewelry, Kvamme AP Calculus AB, Yernberg Advisory, Cox Beginning [...]

PHP & JSON – Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array

Ryan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:23:10 +0000

When working with JSON and PHP, things can get a bit tricky. One such situation might be decoding JSON data, which probably occurs more often than not in a web application. I came across this fatal php error: Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array… The cause was a json_decode call that [...]

My First MooTools Presentation

Ryan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:12:19 +0000

On Thursday, May 27th, I gave my very first MooTools presentation to an eagerly awaiting AP Computer Science class. The presentation was in three parts, the first a general overview of javascript itself, the second a micro-guide to MooTools glowing finesse with elements, events and effects, and finally a complete section on MooTools classes to [...]

Auto-Mount Network Share on Ubuntu

Ryan — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:10:10 +0000

For backup purposes, I needed to automatically mount a network share from a Windows computer on startup. I hoped that Ubuntu would make this seemingly common need to taken care of, but it’s not – there’s some work involved. So let’s get to it. Step 1 Let’s ensure the things we need are installed already. [...]

Symfony Doctrine Documentation

Ryan — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:46:57 +0000

I’ve been tinkering with symfony php framework for a while now. I wanted to know what methods and properties were attached to the special Table objects I had all over the place. I thought it would be easy enough to look up that documentation on the symfony documentation site, but that didn’t work. So I [...]

My Top 5 IB Calculus 1 (Mathematics 1) Tips

Ryan — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:08:57 +0000

I love my first exposure to calculus. I had read minor snippets from various sources prior to taking my first calculus class, but I never really understood it completely. My junior year was jam-packed with the wonderful world of calculus, and your years should seriously be just as fun as mine was. Sure, it was [...]