Joshua Kitchener's Blog (12)

I can provide a custom relational database, middleware library, and XML output. You can use this for any number of applications, both web and mobile.

I'm a one man operation, and much less expensive than a studio. I've been doing this for over 12 years! Email me with any questions: staff@dot-comet.com

The latest map from NASA shows that Sonoma may be harbor large meteorites from last week's fireball:

http://cams.seti.org/line.jpg

Keep your eyes peeled for unusual looking stones!

http://spaceweather.com/gallery/index.php

This was all hand made in PHP/MySQL and jQuery. It displays all the photos being submitted by our users, along with some simple social network functionality.

Hi all,

I love making logos, and am looking for more opportunities to push my design boundaries.

My samples are here: http://imgur.com/a/KRoPu

I charge between $200 and $350 per design. There is no "revision" process; the design simply isn't finished until you love it.

I provide as many file formats as you request, including editable vector source.

If interested, please message me on…

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Hello again.



This past Christmas, a popular website called Stratfor (which offers geostrategic forecasting services) was the victim of a major hacking attack. The attackers made off with megabytes of email addresses and more importantly, credit card numbers. They then proceeded to post the data in an online pastebin for all to exploit.



This event offers some lessons. First and foremost, the company committed the Cardinal Sin of web development by storing the credit card…

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Hi all,



A few weeks ago, I posted a request for a venture capitalist to pitch an idea to. I thought I found someone, but I never heard back.



Nowadays I have more than enough work and hobbies, and more ever on the horizon. So, I'm going to do the unthinkable, and post the plan here for all to consume; lock, stock, and barrel.





THE PLAN:



In a nutshell, the plan is to produce a proprietary version of the popular online pizza ordering tool which has helped…

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Hi all,

I thought I would take a few minutes and give you guys a brief primer on how to choose the correct format to display an image on the Web. I see a lot of incorrect usage out there, even among large corporations, and the result is often an aesthetically displeasing mess.

There are fundamentally two different types of graphics: vector and raster. For this blog post we are concerned with the latter.

Raster graphics are *pixmaps*. That is, they…

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Just a friendly reminder:

Literally anyone with a bank account can now accept debit cards, using PayPal, or even a swiper which attaches to your iPhone.

If you don't accept credit cards, then you arguably deserve to go out of business.

The TV show Star Trek is famous for depicting fantastic technologies which eventually became realized. Some of these were welcome, but others should give us pause.



One of the deadliest foes in the series were The Borg. You may not be immediately familiar with the name, but you are almost certainly familiar with "resistance is futile", and "you will be assimilated" which have entered our lexicon.



These pour souls started out as individuals like you and I, but became consumed… Continue

SWViewer! for iPhone and iPad.

 

Big Blue Marble HD for iPad.

 

Both now on the App Store. Enjoy.

Arduino.

 

What's Arduino?

 

It's a *high level* embedded programming framework.

 

What do we mean by "high level"?

 

If you've seen James Cameron's "Titanic", then you might not have noticed one of the more interesting things about the vintage giant cruise liner: the manual lever which the Captain uses to control the ship. This ship, arguably the most complex machine ever built at the time, had millions of individual parts. But they…

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Hi everyone,



I'm looking for small PHP/MySQL jobs to make some extra cash.



Maybe you need some HTML forms to save customer data. Maybe you need a relational database designed. Maybe you need a couple of PHP functions written. I've developed a simple framework over my ten years of using PHP, and as lead developer of one of the most popular science sites on the web.



I'm not interested in large, lengthy projects, or social networking APIs.



Thanks, and you know… Continue