Archive - programming

Styling Facebook – XBox 360 Theme

27 May 2010 by Mike250, No Comments (161 views)
Styling Facebook – XBox 360 Theme

Ever wanted to style Facebook? One of the (sometimes good, sometimes bad) features of Facebook that differs from what I like to call it’s emo predecessor in the social networking game: MySpace, is the inability to customize it’s layout. MySpace was fantastic if you could write CSS like I can, but it opened up security [...]

MySQL GROUP_CONCAT returns [BLOB - 14 B]

26 May 2010 by Mike250, 2 Comments (247 views)
MySQL GROUP_CONCAT returns [BLOB - 14 B]

A tech post today, I really don’t do enough of these. I bumped into an issue recently where I was building a form guide for the cricket league website that I run. The idea was to present the team form on one line based off results in my scorecard table, like so: WWWLLWWNWWLWW I previously [...]

Fun Tech Stuff for November

11 November 2008 by Mike250, 5 Comments (431 views)

I’m going to try and post some fun tech gadgets I’ve played with or am playing with recently and give a little write-up of each. Lately I’ve been a bit more obsessed than normal with trying to get all the stuff I like to look at on one page. This could be via iGoogle, MyYahoo! [...]

Launching a new cricket site

27 October 2008 by Mike250, 2 Comments (521 views)

I’ve dusted off my old PHP cricket statistics website code, added a few necessities and am about to launch Butcher Cricket (presently http://ndcc.mike250.com while in transition from development to deployment). This is my brainchild from 2 years of work back in Colorado where I needed a cricket database but found everything out there useless or [...]

Funny moment of the day

23 July 2007 by Mike250, No Comments (325 views)

Funny is when Visual Studio crashes and upon detecting that something went wrong asks me if I want to launch Visual Studio to debug the problem I just had… For those of you not in the know its Microsoft’s flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets [...]