My Tag cloud implementation started from the Matt’s weighted-categories implementation on hitormiss. It was working fine but I needed two things (yeah, just 2)

the hover text to be more informative
WordPress 2.1 support

I only needed to change one line to make the hover text include the category name (for cases where my font size was tiny). [...]

I fell out of the software developer track for a number of years. I was a strong (although not the best) C language developer and had some C++ talent but I shifted gears when Java took off at my company. Since that time, I have done mostly scripting based hacks and small tools as “brain [...]

I was reading Stephen O’Grady’s blog and started link hopping. My jumping off point was  the announcement of IBM supporting MySQL. Then I trolled around where I found IBM’s growing support for PHP through Zend Core. I had read previously about WebSphere support for PHP.
I’ve confessed previously that I skipped the Java development tract in [...]

 I stand fast with my technological point of view that no solution will succeed without having an established interface. I tend to leave some of Bill Gate’s creations out of the mix because monopolies don’t play by the same rules as the rest of the world. I’ll also eliminate very small niche software. These tend [...]

I finally got around to upgrading this blog to the latest WordPress. the straw the broke the camel’s back - so to speak - was that Windows Live Writer now supports more XMLRPC interfaces included creating categories (in addition to just selecting from existing ones). There are also more complete interactions thru the XMLRPC interface.
I [...]

I’ve been pondering the idea of desktop applications authored as mashups. the question becomes - what is the development environment ? You can run PHP, Perl, and other languages on a local machine but they really were not meant for that.  You could install Apache and Tomcat and have an HTML and applet environment [...]

I’ve had some less than pleasant experiences over the past week with my web site. First my blog got temporarily trashed by a service error on the MySQL instance on the server. I tried their email support but that didn’t get a response in a reasonable amount of time so I decided to hang on [...]

A few days ago, I announced I’d be trying to update my blog logo to reflect events, holidays, etc. Thus far, the idea is working (at least for me). The problem is one of timing. I got the St. Patrick’s Day logo up (a few hours late) and took it down (many hours late). [...]