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• Visitors- Yesterday (Tuesday) some friends from CA visited my family. I am lucky that I work at an informal place were I was able to take the day off. I haven't seen them for over two years and it would have been a bummer if I got stuck at work...
• How to destroy America using your tax money- [quote]The American Civil Liberties Union is engaged in a long-term, relentless and well-funded campaign to remove every vestige of Christian expression from America's government, schools and public property.
• College and Movies- So, it’s that time of year again; back to school or back to work. (Unless you’re like me and you don’t have a life - then it is back to school, work, and web design.) Anyway, yesterday my brother and I went back to Eastfield (after taking last semester off) to register for 3 classes each. Rob took three boring general Ed. classes and I got all the fun ones - AutoCAD, Solid Works, and Intermediate Weight Training! (Note: yes, my bro is more responsible than me; so regular work doesn’t scare him. Ugh, I hate English…lol)
• C2D Upgrade- Yep, C2D went down yesterday. Sorry, it wasn’t very professional of me :) Anyway, the whole thing started when I tried upgrading this site to the newest version, (yes, I didn’t code the whole thing...). So I was able to successfully..however some of the mods I have were not compatible with the new version! So, thankfully I make DB Backups often and was (after many hours) able to restore a copy of the database! Then today I restored a file system backup I had also made. So, the moral of the story is to check your mods before you move a system. After all this I watched an "A" (Adult) rated movie called [u]Jamaica Inn[/u]. It was a black & white mystery/horror(?) movie from like 1940(?). Since you couldn’t actually see if someone was being killed or not (you could only tell from the sudden volume spike in the 2-bit sound) I overlooked the "A" rating. (Also, the fact that someone committing suicide constituted jumping half-way off a ship’s mast and then stopping the movie to throw a scare-crow the rest of the way tells you something.) But hey, it is still cleaner entertainment than the garbage all over the T.V. now…
• There goes my education...- [b]But hey, it was worth it! [/b]
• February News- Well, as quite as it has been around here there have been a lot of additions, updates, and even some new movies! Yes, Code2Design is still under a very active development. Keeping a site up-to-date is a big problem in today's world. Every code-kitty out there is looking for a site to hack – supposedly, to gain the respect of others (which is probably the same type of respect one could earn from toilet-papering someone's house). Plus you have the bots out there always on the lookout for a place to plant some spam. So, security alone keeps me busy as I strive to keep C2D a friendly, spam-free, environment! :) After all, this is about us enjoying our time and learning something. Hopefully, we can get some haXor (excuse me, "craker") to help with php security lessons. ;)
• Do we really have any reason to be unhappy?- By Craig R. Smith (New York Times Reporter) The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right? The same magazine that employs Michael (Qurans in the toilets at Gitmo) Isikoff. Here I promised myself this week I would be nice and I start off in this way. The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the president. In essence 2/3s of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I starting thinking, "What we are so unhappy about?"
• Link Trading Gone Wrong- Now-a-days, most WebMaster's understand the importance of trading links with other sites. Afterall, besides the obvious logic of "The more roads to the site - the more visitors" - trading links has great Search Engine Ranking benefits. Which have been proven many times before, so I will skip going into any long "Statistics prove...." talk. (If you want more info see our good friend Google.) Anyway, so what is the title all about? Well... me being over-zealous in my link trading. ;)
• New Projects- Lately, as I find myself spending increasing amounts of time online (in research); I end up meeting many exceptional people who more or less are lacking in some area of the web. Now meeting people is a very good thing, however, this ultimately leads to a problem – I love to help people. Wait, that’s a problem?... Well… It is when you don’t have any time! ;] I know that I have a long way to go before I can match the skill and talent of today’s top programmers and designers – but if you don’t mind me saying – I still can hold my own to most of the web out there. One of the reasons is the collection of bookmarks, scripts, tools, and such I have found over the course of my web life.
• Rooted in Christ- "My goal is that they will be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have full confidence because they have complete understanding of God's secret plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I'm telling you this so that no one will be able to deceive you with persuasive arguments." - Colossians 2:2-4 I read a great article on [url=http://www.navpress.com/EPubs/PrinterFriendly/1/1.97.9.html]The 10 Questions To Ask To Make Sure You're Still Growing[/url]. And I realized I was lacking in some areas, actually - I was lacking in all areas. Looking back over the past few months, I see that I'm still the same person I was then. I still do the same things, and I still know the same things... But that's not God's plan for us! He wants to bring us closer to Him, he wants us to grow in our knowledge and love for Him.
• C2D's Open Search and Razor Blades- Time for more (than less) information on the recent updates to Code2Design. Yes, C2D is now open search compatible. Now you can search all of Code2Design.com right from your browser! To install the browser plug-in for Firefox, Opera, or Internet Explorer 7 simply visit any page on C2D and click the highlighted search box to add us to your list of favorite search engines! However, if you are anything like me, you probably never even use that feature. ;) So, now is a great chance to improve your skills, find useful information, and help test-out our new search plug-in. Boy are you efficient!
• Persecution- As I was reading the first chapter of 2 Thessalonians, I started thinking about a few things; particularly - persecution. Having been born and raised in America, I've never really known "persecution". Because I am a Christian, I may have been made fun of, rejected, or disliked - but I wouldn't consider those as "persecution"; more like inconveniences. However, this chapter explains persecution in one of the ways it should be seen, so I’d like to share with you. ;) [quote]Dear brothers and sisters, we always thank God for you, as is right, for we are thankful that your faith is flourishing and that you are all growing in love for each other. - 2 Thessalonians 1:3[/quote]
• PHP Video Tutorials- After several months work I am proud to announce the Code2Design video system is finally up! Featuring 25 videos on HTML, PHP, AutoCAD, and more! Each video is either 640x480 or 800x600 and is avalible to download for private viewing. (Not everyone has DSL in their home.) The Two videos I recomend the most are PHP Security and Resizing and Sending Images For Email. PHP security is probably the most advanced video of it's type in the world. It is about 45min long and covers basic attacks like Globals, Includes, and Super Global arrays like $_SERVER and $_GET. More advanced subjects like SQL injection, CSFR, and XSS are covered later in the video. Each attack is not only discussed - but actually shown in action so you can easily follow along.
• MicroMVC- Today I am happy to announce the release of [url=http://micromvc.com]MicroMVC[/url] at [url=http://github.com/Xeoncross/micromvc/]github[/url]. MicroMVC is released under the [url=http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html]GPL v3[/url] so it is free for anyone to download and use. MicroMVC is the project that I am most proud of out of all my web apps. It powers this sites video system and other sites where I needed something lightweight and blazing fast. Along with the new home it has been updated, cleaned up, and outfitted with a couple example controllers that show you how to fetch twitter updates, create posts in a SQLite database, call hooks/plugins, and load views. There is even a [url=http://micromvc.com/intro.wmv]video to help you get started[/url].
• Portable Nginx PHP Memcached MySQL Server for Windows- Assembling a full, working Nginx web sever on windows isn't the easiest thing. It's easy enough on ubuntu - but I also use windows for development and want a near-clone of my production server. So the other day I suddenly found myself looking for an easier way to get my windows boxes up and running with Nginx. I wanted a complete, fast, easy-to-use web server that you could put anywhere and run from anything. My flash drive, HD, CD, etc.. and from this desire the [url=http://github.com/Xeoncross/wnmp]WNMP web sever project[/url] was born. Now you can choose what versions of PHP, MySQL, Nginx, and memcached you want and run each one of them without having to install a single thing! Just download and your ready to roll! No installation, no fuss. My kind of server.

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