http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble The Second Best Blog in Utah Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:45:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a quick example of weighted round robin in php. [php] //weighted round robin define("START_WEIGHT", 1); class printer { private $name; private $weight; private $normalizedWeight; public function printer($name,$weight=START_WEIGHT) { $this->name=$name; $this->weight=$weight; } public function getName() { return $this->name; } public ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2008/10/06/weighted-round-robin/ Recently I helped direct and produce a biographical documentary. Here's the equipment list I used: Canon XHA1 video camera Camera tripod Boom pole Directional mic with windscreen (dead cat) XLR cables MiniDV tapes Macbook Pro w/ iMovie and iDVD Dell Laptop with photoshop Epson flatbed scanner Radio Shack 3 channel audio mixer Sennheiser condenser microphone with stand (for narration) External 1TB drive Mediawiki Royalty ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2008/09/07/movie-tech/ I had a friend send me a list of these questions today. some are repeats from previous posts but there are several new ones. Enjoy! Logic Problems a) 8 Steel balls, 1 heavier than all the rest. Use a Balance Scale to determine the heaviest ball in the shortest number of tries. b) ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2008/09/03/even-more-utah-tech-interview-questions/ Google just released their new browser, Chrome. You can read all about it, comic-style, on Google Books. I just downloaded it. I'll let you know how it goes http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2008/09/02/are-you-chromed-up/ it's not as difficult as it first looks: Given two water faucets, one hot and one cold, and one bucket. The hot water fills the empty bucket in eight minutes. The cold water fills the bucket in seven minutes. Then I make a hole in the bucket such that the full ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2008/06/16/tech-interview-question-of-the-day/ reversing a string is a classic tech interview question. of course you're not allowed to call any built-in reverse() function. A solution might look like, in my pseudocode: someString = new string("732432424"); char temp; int end=someString.length()-1; for (int x=0;x<end;x++) { temp=someString[end]; someString[x]=someString[end]; someString[end]=temp; end--; } but sometimes the interviewer asks you to reverse the string in place, without using other memory, ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2008/04/03/reversing-a-string-the-algorithms/ ME: did you install xampp? ME: and, in the xampp control panel, did you start apache? ME: and, in a browser, did you go to http://localhost ME: and, once, there, did you see a xampp welcome message? SOMEGUY: yes, yes and yes ME: when you go to http://www.whatismyip.com what does it say for your ip ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2008/01/17/recent-im-chat-helping-a-friend-get-a-basic-webserver-up-and-running/ 1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.alternative-syntax.php shows an alternative syntax for loops: foreach($list as $item) { echo $item; } can be done as: foreach($list as $item): echo $item; ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2007/11/21/two-interesting-php-items-for-the-day/ this script checks to see if a program is running and starts it if it is not. if a certain time has passed the script will kill the running program [bash] #!/bin/bash #location of script to monitor PROGRAM='myscript.php' COUNTER=0 #!/bin/bash date2stamp () { date --utc --date "$1" +%s } # convert a date into a UNIX ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2007/11/01/linux-shell-script-to-monitor-running-program/ We recently upgraded from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 and we noticed strange characters in some of the varchar and text fields. step 1: dump out the contents of the bad field in hex mysql> select hex(myfieldname) from mytablename where myid='something'; step 2: run a php program to print out the chars ... http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2007/10/31/latin1-to-utf8-character-set-conversion-for-mysql/