Posted By bran on February 13th, 2009
I have been recently working on a project integrating Google Maps API. It’s pretty straight forward and Google provides an excellent documention. After working with the API and developing the custom mapping application, I noticed that the implemention exposes the name of the data file (xml, csv, text, etc) in the JavaScript code, example below [...]
Posted By bran on February 4th, 2009
I’ve noticed that Toronto is a city of trends, especially when it comes to food takeout There’s always times where a certain type of food is suddenly hot and popular and takeout shops start to pop up everywhere
Pizza. The original take out food and still stands the test of time. The only real changes are [...]
Posted By bran on February 4th, 2009
Just a quick tip for all the web designers/developers who do not really program in a scripting language (php, asp, jsp, etc) and mainly stick with HTML (client-side scripting). Assuming your server handles it, when creating your page, always use the server-side scripting (.php, .jsp, etc), and don’t use .html. Even if don’t plan on [...]
Posted By bran on January 27th, 2009
Looks like my poker days will begin again! I just got $50 free from Full Tilt Poker deposited into my account. I created an account there about 6 months ago just to observe some poker pros playing from time to time. I never put any money in and just played a few free rolls. The [...]
Posted By bran on November 30th, 2008
Hoax or Real? Received an email message from Facebook:
Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
To reset your email notification settings, go to:
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Posted By bran on November 12th, 2008
From the Wired article:
When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet and upgraded to the premium membership that would let him contact long-lost fifth-grade dodge-ball buddies and see if his secret crush from high school had looked him up [...]
Posted By bran on October 20th, 2008
I have lived in an apartment/condo for the last few years and have noticed a few annoying elevator moments that I am sure you all can relate to, in no particular order.
Heavy breathers – You just walked to the elevator from your apartment door so why are you breathing so deep and loud?
Close stander or [...]
Posted By bran on October 17th, 2008
I’ve always had a certain disdain for Rogers and that fact they’ve pretty much taken control of the media in Canada but I just saw on the news today that they run a “Pumpkin Patrol” on Halloween :
And for the 23rd straight year, the Rogers Pumpkin Patrol will be going out along with them to [...]
Posted By bran on October 14th, 2008
Been bit lazy about posting but just found out recently a good buddy of mine is now teaching with his wife over in Kuwait! Still in a bit of shock but cheers to him as long as they stay safe of course.
They’ve set up a blog too but it probably won’t be updated too often [...]
Posted By bran on September 22nd, 2008
Experimented with the free theme agregado theme provided by Smashing Magazine. It’s a very elegant design and stylish but a bit too artsy for my goals and diretion of the blog. So I’ll put back the old design that is cleaner and simplier. Sounds like I’ll have to create my own theme at some point, [...]