Author Archives: -tomas

New Year, New Problems

Happy New Year! I finished the year with some big changes. After living for over twenty years at our last location, we’ve moved to a new part of our home state. There are several reasons, but mostly, we’re moving to … Continue reading

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Protests: Occupy Wall Street and UC College Campus

Like many of you, I have been seeing a lot of coverage regarding the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. Although, I sympathize with the main goals of the movement (that the current corporate culture is not constructive toward building a … Continue reading

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JavaScriptSerializer example finally updated

A while back I created a page that offered an example of how to parse JSON objects using the .NET JavaScriptSerializer class. It was a mess. It has now been updated.

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Priceline Hotel Ratings System Need Revamping

Since 2005, I’ve spent a lot of time living out of hotel rooms. The programming opportunities where I live are limited. So I’ve had to take jobs in areas near my home, but far enough away that I usually need … Continue reading

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Javascriptserializer and .NET – Why the sudden interest?

A while back, I put up a page on my first introduction to the Javascriptserializer class in the .NET library. Specifically, it dealt with how I used to to write a “hello world” application for Facebook. But in the last … Continue reading

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Complete MySQL and iTextSharp Example

I present a small sample web application that illustrates how to use iTextSharp to create a PDF document using data derived from a MySQL datasource. Specific workarounds for GoDaddy hosting are implemented. Continue reading

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Compiling iTextSharp for use on GoDaddy

On this site, I have a page that discusses some of the problems that I encountered while getting a website up and running on GoDaddy servers. Specifically, I had to re-compile some open-source projects to allow them to work in … Continue reading

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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman and Me

This morning I was getting dressed and I happened to grab an old T-Shirt that I had made at CafePress. It features a picture of Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman and the phrase “What would Zatoichi do?” That got me reminiscing … Continue reading

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Time Traveling to the BoilerRoom

Every Wednesday, our boss takes us out to lunch. Like all geeks do, we started talking about some pretty fanciful topics, including Time Travel. Ignoring the laws of physics (and the bewildered stares of the young ladies at the next … Continue reading

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Me and My Big Head

Like a lot of geeks, I wear eyeglasses. Also, like a lot of geeks my head is kind of big. Unfortunately, having a big head makes finding new eyeglasses frames more difficult than it should be. Continue reading

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