Jul 26, 2011

Charts API, CIA, Poker, etc.

There are times when I am confounded with the great questions of life: Why does the whiteboard eraser at work erase cleanly while the eraser at home doesn’t erase at all? Peaks This chart shows the amount of money won monthly by various CIA operatives playing poker. This data shows the peaks for each operative. Peak analysis finds and orders the peaks of a data set. This data can then be easily graphed, as was done above.

Jul 25, 2011

Charting API… Again!

<< It is an ancient device used many years ago by tribe members in their mating rituals. Scientists believe that these were placed within another device to produce sounds, although there is no known evidence of these devices existing. So, on to the charting API. Balancing Graphs Another graph has been born. The balancing graph, prevalent in the first few admin pages, has now been put inside a class named ”Balancing_Graph”.

Jul 22, 2011

Homecoming

*Snif*… No technical preface! Ah well… The Charts API was too long to tack this on the end of. 🙂 I was looking through some pictures I had taken, so I decided that I’ll make up the technical bit with a picture (~1000 words). The boy got off his bike at the start of his… driveway? If it could be called that. A dirt pathway, reminiscent of the house it lead to, wound back through the trees a hundred feet to the house.

Jul 21, 2011

Charts API Dos

Si, en Español. Sin embargo, me ha olvidado quizás el aspecto más importante de la API de mesa: la clasificación. As mentioned in my last post, sorting is really the only thing that the table wrapper API actually does for you, except for the whole drawing the table thing. Sorting takes the form of two parameters: The name of the column to sort by, and a boolean value that’s true if you want to sort by increasing values and false otherwise.

Jul 21, 2011

Charts API

So, life has it that I’m writing a wrapper for Google Charts. Life also has it that I get this blog. My life rocks - What more can I say? Actually, I will say that the API as it stands at time of publishing is below. Perhaps the first aspect that I should point out is that there are three main elements: The line charts. There are two types of line chart: the basic line chart and the timeline chart.

Jun 18, 2011

Cron & my friend LogRotate

Sometimes it happens that logrotate doesn’t rotate. It becomes just log. The log command in itself isn’t useful - So, of course, I spent some time figuring out how to tell log to change into logrotate. After many long days of heroically saving the day, I finally traced the culprit back to Cron. I would have heroically killed the villain, but the villain was dead. Cron had stopped. So I restarted it, and went on my merry way.

Jun 13, 2011

Hello, Moon!

Ahhh… A fast blog! Nice to know what WPEngine produces from the user point of view, now that I’m interning here. I’m impressed so far. 🙂 One week down, seven to go. It went by much faster than I had thought it would, working on assorted scripts to monitor assorted variables on assorted servers. Learning faster than I have in a while - It helps that WPEngine makes money, whereas the school doesn’t.

Feb 24, 2010

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Jan 1, 0001

Proof: Gaussian Distributions Actually Exist

Some bookkeeping: I had 1,400 comments waiting for me to decide if they’re intelligent. I deleted them all. You’re welcome to comment, as always, but now there’s a captcha, so you can read ancient books while you’re posting comments. And I don’t have to wade through 1,400 advertisements for Nike. And a quick plug for a new Pillow service I rolled out this week: The Website Monitor (WebMon). What this does is it lets you subscribe to changes for a website - For example, say your CS assignment is kept on a website somewhere, and you want to be alerted whenever your professor changes the page.