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4
Sep

Craigslist Censored?

By: Colton

Craigslist Adults Section CensoredCraigslist Adults Section Censored

After many allegations from many different authorities, ranging from soliciting sex to human trafficking, Craigslist was asked by 17 state general attorneys to remove their adults advertising section. As of today, Craigslist’s adults advertising section link has been replaced with an image baring the word “censored”, and favoring the famous black bar we all see on TV when there’s nudity we’re “not supposed to see”. However, and get this, these changes are only for the United States.

This comes after two girls reported that they were sold for sex on Craigslist, and the suicide of “The Craigslist Killer” Philip Markoff in jail.

You can read more on this situation from:
Wired
CNN

4
Sep

Google Chrome 7 vs. Firefox 4 Beta

By: Colton

Chrome Memory UsageChrome 7 Memory UsageThe field “GPU” shows your GPU’s usage statistics by Chrome.

Each time a new browser comes out, there are more features for other browsers to beat. Right now, the race is on for GPU rendering of pages in browsers. Firefox and Chrome are in the lead on this technology, with Firefox really harnessing the power of GPU rendering in Direct2D. With the release of Google Chrome 6, Google Chrome 7 is already in the works. The GPU rendering was first released, and produces a better result, in Firefox 4 Beta 4. Chrome’s rendering with the GPU still needs some major improvements from it’s current stages. I experience erratic behavior, such as FPS dropping.

For those of you that do not understand the concept of GPU rendering, here is an explanation in it’s most simplistic form: GPU rendering is a simple way of transferring the data that your CPU would normally be rendering for a web page, and transfer it to your GPU (graphics card) for rendering. This results in much faster graphics rendering, decreasing page load time, and increasing page responsiveness during extreme graphics rendering on webpages that host a lot of images. Sounds cool, huh? Read moreRead more

4
Sep

Labor Day 2010

By: Colton

Carolina BeachCarolina BeachCourtesy of callrealdeals.com

Pack up your car, get your pools ready, find a babysitter for your kids if you desire–Labor day is Monday! Ah… joyous time away from your second home! Joyous time away from the people that drive you more insane than you kids! Take the time to take in the peaceful day.

The American Automobile Association (AAA) estimated that there will be around 34 million people to travel at least 50 miles from their homes this weekend (source). With hurricane Earl no longer a threat to the NC coast, everyone is rushing to the beach at the same time. Businesses and hotels were preparing for the flood of tourists yesterday. The ferries at our NC beaches are running again, and highway 12 is open again, but NC officials are still warning of the possibility of strong riptides along the coast.

The forecast in NC for today is 84°F, with tomorrow being 85°F. Perfect beach weather. So get your tanning lotion ready, or just lounge around the house in a hot bath. In either case, it’s sure to be better than work.

3
Sep

Hurricane Earl Heading North

By: Jack

Hurricane Earl from SpaceEarl from SpaceCourtesy of NASA.

With it’s eyes set on the northeast as a category 1 storm, Earl is bringing rain and heavy seas to Cape Cod and the surrounding northeast area, WHERE I LIVE BUM BUM BUM. Although most everyone around seem nonchalant about the impending heavy weather, my father for instance wants to go to the beach tomorrow, the storm still poses a threat having sustained winds at 70 mph while passing east of Cape Cod.

The storm should bring some much needed rain to our region as there has been somewhat of a drought this year (my well has ran dry a few times already this summer). Earl, for most, is a welcome relief from the heat and should create some nice surf in long island sound.

3
Sep

Hurricane Earl Aftermath

By: Colton

Yesterday, everyone around here was glued to the TV about the Earl situation. “Have you seen anything about Earl?” was the most common question of my day. It wasn’t as bad as everyone was making it out to be. Read moreRead more

2
Sep

HTML5: Are you ready?

By: Colton

With the presence of HTML5 on the horizon, a lot of people are excited; some more than others. How will this switch effect the coding methods that we use today? How will it effect what we do tomorrow? We are looking forward to this marvelous release. However, many people still question what exactly is going on.
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2
Sep

PHP Hook Example

By: Colton

For those of us that love dynamic content, but not all the messy code that is required for it, hooks is my favorite way to go. An example of a hook class looks something like:

< ?php
    class Hooks {
        public function add($hook,$class=null,$method=null,$args=null) {
            if (empty($method)) error("You must include a method (function) when defining add_hook.");
            $this->hooks[$hook][]=array((!empty($class)?array($class,$method):$method),$args);
            return $this;
        }
        public function clear($hook=null) { if (!empty($hook)) unset($this->hooks[$hook]); else $this->hooks=null; }
        public function run($hook) {
            if (empty($this->hooks[$hook])) return $this;
            foreach ($this->hooks[$hook] as $hkey=>$hvalue) {
                if (is_array($hvalue[0])) $hvalue[0]=array($hvalue[0][0],$hvalue[0][1]);
                if (!empty($hvalue[1])) if (!is_array($hvalue[1])) call_user_func($hvalue[0],$hvalue[1]); else call_user_func_array($hvalue[0],$hvalue[1]);
                else call_user_func($hvalue[0]);
            }
            return $this;
        }
    }
?>

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