How to go from your GPS to Google Maps

This Sunday I took my GPS with me hiking on Devil’s Backbone. Normally I take it to log GPS quadrants for where I have taken pictures, but this time I left it on the whole time to track the progress. When I got back home I was able to pull the data down to my [...]

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Google Analytics API and PHP

A few weeks ago I added stats on my Photoblog. This started out as just a link to a pie chart of cameras (tutorial here) but I started thinking I should add more than that. How about the top photos of the week and also what about top photos of all time. There were two [...]

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Devil’s Backbone

On Sunday, Michelle, Brewer and I went hiking at Devil’s Backbone in Loveland Colorado. Here are some of the photos I captured. There will be more on Flickr and on my Photoblog.

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Flex PieChart with XML input

I have been working hard to compile statistics on my photo blog. Currently I have most visited photos and photos by camera. I wanted to create a dynamic chart and luckily, Flex 3 has a charting component that was easy to use. There were a lot of tutorials out there on Flex Charts (mostly bar [...]

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Colorado State University Photo Shoot

Last week I went to Colorado State University to take behind the scenes pictures of an athletics’ photo shoot. The photos will be used next season for posters, tickets and flyers. Here are some of the good photos I got:

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Dynamic Style Sheets with Server Side Scripting

We are currently working on redesigning our top level pages at UNC. We are using multiple style sheets to separate out the structure of the page from the colors and typography. All pages will have the same layout but will have different patterns and colors. I want to use one style sheet (rather than multiple) [...]

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Reverse Engineer Nike+ to create an API

Earlier in the week we cleaned out the workout room and I started running on our treadmill again. One of the things that I am excited about it the Nike+ program. It tracks runs and keeps statists online about each run. I wanted to add these stats to my blog but Nike doesn’t offer a [...]

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Goals with Google Analytics

One of the things I like to do with this blog is talk about what tools we are using at the University of Northern Colorado. We have been using Google Analytics for quite a while now (along with our log based stat tool) and have gathered a lot of data. One of the problems is [...]

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Accessing Imported Objects in ActionScript 3

I learned the bulk of my understanding of ActionScirpt 3 with UNC’s “Bringing Education to Life Campaign”. I rewrote the code for the base flash file 3 different times, each time updating the code with what I had learned. The site was created using modules, in which if we wanted to add something new, we [...]

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Get FaceBook Comments with PHP

Last week I posted a photo on my photo blog and on Flickr of my hops starting to grow. Once uploaded, I went to FaceBook and posted a link to the photo there. A few people commented in different places and it got me thinking about how I receive comments. My photo blog doesn’t receive [...]

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