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Any good programmer will try to reuse code as much as possible before trying to reinvent the wheel. Though, there are those programmers who think the wheel isn't good enough and try to tear down the foundations of everything and end up reinventing a square wheel (we like to get those people fired). In the spirit of fostering a good programmers' community, I'll post fully-public domain code here in a variety of languages to do a variety of miscellaneous things.

JavaScript code for a random number generator

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 – 10:49 pm

One of my challenges as a college Spanish teacher is finding interesting way to present material and drill it with the students so that they have a chance to practice and retain the vocabulary. I am a huge proponent of flashcards for this task. Flashcards for vocabulary, flashcards for grammar read more …

How I beat the comment spammers, for now

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 – 1:07 pm

When I deployed my new site back in January of this year, I had added a comment feature that would allow readers to post their comments (much like any good blog should). I hadn't really suspected that this feature would be abused, but I found out rather quickly that it read more …

XHTML + CSS Template for Nutrition

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 – 11:23 pm

Since I'm planning on posting a number of recipes on this blog, I also wanted to provide nutritional information in an easy-to-read, clean format. Surprisingly, there are no (X)HTML templates out there for the Nutrition Facts label that that FDA requires on many food items. I decided to develop my read more …