New Project – TwitFeed

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Today is the release of a new project : TwitFeed. It is a live streaming twitter plugin for wordpress. You can have your blog updating with content from twitter in real time. Follow your favourite people, or track keywords related to your site.

Go on and check it out.

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New Dev Posts

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Just a heads up I’ve written a couple new dev postings today. It’s been too long since an update and I’ve had some things swimming in my brain that have needed to come out for a while!

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Pi – Madness

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

It seems I haven’t done any cleanup on my cached pi pictures in quite some time. I took a look today and the cache folder had ballooned much larger than I had ever seen!


******:zenwerx.com/pi/cache$ ls | grep -c png
6544
******:zenwerx.com/pi/cache$ du . -h
2.0G .

6500 images totalling 2GB! Oh, and I accidentally deleted the browsing script when I cleaned up too. Whoops! Thank goodness it was just a symbolic link, but it had me worried for a bit!

Update – June 24th
Apparently the Pi picture script has been broken for a few months (ever since the server was upgraded). The permissions were set incorrectly on the cache folder and the script couldn’t save any images there. It’s all fixed now, but I wonder how big the folder would have been if there hadn’t been an issue…

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Development Blog

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

I have started to record some of my programming experiences under the new “development” section. Inspired by an issue I ran in to at my day job. These posts won’t display on the front page but can be reached from the category menu.

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SmartRSS

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Well, this isn’t the project I was saying I didn’t have time for yesterday. This happens to be a project I was working on for a client. Since the plugin was originally available out in the wild, I am doing the same by making my modifications available in the spirit of free software.

Enjoy!

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Mobile Friendly

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

I just wanted to note that I have turned on a mobile friendly version of the site for any users who are using iPhones or iPod touches. If you have any difficulties with the mobile version, please get a hold of me.

Also… There’s a new section under oddities. Something which has been laying dormant for about 4 years and I figured should see the light of day.

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New Project Delayed

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

I am sad to report my new project has been slightly delayed. I’ve been doing some contract work lately which has been keeping time for personal projects to a minimum. Hopefully some time will be available soon!!!

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Updates… Really???

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Michael Carpenter

Yes, I finally got around to updating the site. It looks a little more modern now, as well as includes a “Portfolio” section which includes a selection of my consulting/contract work over the last few years. Where did I get the time to do an update, since I haven’t done anything big in roughly 4-5 years? Well, the thing is that during those last 4-5 years I have been working full time and completing my Comp Sci degree part time (previously I had a College Diploma). It’s been a busy time! Well now the degree is done, so I have some time to do more work that I want to do.

And since I have all this free time now, I think I’m going to start on a new project I’ve been meaning to get around to for a while now. Should have more to post in the near future.

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Forums Removed

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Michael Carpenter

I have removed the forums from the site. I haven’t been using them for some time now, so I don’t really think it’s necessary to keep them around any longer. Maybe I’ll get off my butt and redesign this site at some point too…

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Resume Updated

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Michael Carpenter

Just a note that my resume has been updated.

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