http://agoln.net Development and personal site Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:29:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an off the wall post for my blog - it appears that a small suburb of Chicago has banned baggy pants.  In short, you cannot show more than 3” of underwear otherwise you get a $25 ticket. I personally don’t wear my pants that baggy, but it does ... http://agoln.net/archives/119 Just after my move to Seattle, my Indiana license plates expired which has left me without a car.  Although an awesome benefit from Microsoft is a free bus pass, they also have this amazing bus that picks you up and takes you to work every day called The Connector.  ... http://agoln.net/archives/114 It is currently a little over a month into my full time employment at Microsoft, and I am extremely pleased with everything that I am working on.  For those that don’t know yet, I work on the installer for the Windows Live team. Fringe Benefits I ... http://agoln.net/archives/111 It has been more than a month since I last typed up a post, and I have decided to write about my more recent experiences in a multi-part blog series. Graduation As many may know, I was offered a position at Microsoft within the ... http://agoln.net/archives/108 Recently, Adobe released an AIR client for Linux. Some people complained about the need for root privileges for not only installing AIR itself, but also for installing AIR applications. If you are worried about providing your root password to a binary, here is a work around. Download the AIR ... http://agoln.net/archives/106 Preface I am not a lawyer. Do not take this as legal advice. It was brought to my attention that Roommates.com was sued for violating the Fair Housing Act (FHA). This was of extreme interest to me because of my similar roommate finder application, and how it may effect the ... http://agoln.net/archives/103 When attempting to debug my program, zend studio for eclipse wasn't recognizing that I had my mysql extension installed. I found a small work around. Go to [install_path]\plugins\org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.2.12.v20071210\resources\php5 In there, you will see your php.exe's and your php.ini that the debugger uses. I just copied my php.ini there for it to ... http://agoln.net/archives/102 Public methods should be deceptively named to foil would-be hackers. http://agoln.net/archives/100 After a few weeks of downtime, and helpful input and comments from my readers, I have finally submitted my Zend_Framework CLA and authored a Zend_Pdf_Cell proposal! Please feel free to read it and comment on any of the functionality! I really hope that this can get integrated within ... http://agoln.net/archives/99 As the Active Record class has become increasingly popular due to it's wild success in Ruby on Rails, it seems as though every framework has an implementation of it. It is no surprise that inside the covers of the MyEPICS framework lives an active record class that I had ... http://agoln.net/archives/98