Wordpress - brianestes.wordpress.com - Brian Estes

General Information:
Latest News:
picoprojector.org – Take 2 11 Jul 2012 | 11:11 am
It has been a long time since I posted; over a year. My last post was about acquiring the site picoprojector.org, so I’ll start there. My goal with the pico projector site was to learn about Google A...
picoprojector.org 14 Mar 2010 | 05:05 pm
I’m the proud new owner of the website picoprojector.org! I found it for sale on a site called flippa.com. Since I’m into technology and was also interested in learning more about WordPress and how G...
Development -> Production 24 Nov 2009 | 03:30 pm
I’ve been working very hard to get my site ready for release. The first version isn’t much, just a self-hosted version of the static site I have on SquareSpace right now, but with a working “contact” ...
oDesk 7 Nov 2009 | 10:25 am
I’ve been using oDesk quite a bit recently and am having great luck. I’ve hired a few people and am able to get them productive right away. And, if I can’t, I can simply end the contract. Having the ...
Cookies 8 Sep 2009 | 02:48 pm
I just started looking at using cookies with my site. Since the entire API is REST-based, there are (and will be) no cookies. For the web tool, though, keeping state and sessions will be very importan...
The BackBlaze Pod 4 Sep 2009 | 11:43 am
I love doing “fantasy” configurations for computers. Sometimes for home, but usually for work. High-perforanc servers, HPC systems, storage solutions; you name it. So, it was really fun to read about...
SQL, JSON and embedded JSON 6 Aug 2009 | 11:38 am
No answers today, only questions. My application is using JSON objects to store data. Initially I didn’t like them because they felt kind of sloppy; you didn’t know if the things inside were defined,...
mod_perl 24 Jun 2009 | 09:55 am
I’ve been using mod_perl for quite some time, but never to its full potential. It is difficult for me to dig through all the Apache 1.3, CGI and mod_perl 1.0 crap to learn what mod_perl 2.0 actually d...
My Javascript Object maker 29 May 2009 | 07:52 am
While using my solution to clear, easy to understand and short asynchronous Javascript, I ran into a big problem. I wrote it properly(1), with private variables and all. But, if another part of code c...
My Javascript Package Manager (again) 17 May 2009 | 10:43 am
I just finished re-writing the “loader” piece of my package manager. It turns out that I was using a function instead of an instance of a function. So, when I thought everything was working and tried ...