Category Archives: Interesting Finds

Things that I have found on the internet that interest me, they may be entertaining or a new amazing tool that adds productivity.

Google Chat and Hangout Without Browser

By Cody Swartz | Published: April 28, 2013

While playing League of Legends my friends and I use Google hangouts as our communication software. Off Topic… Razer has recently release “Razer Comms” but since nobody has yet tried it or would surely be unwilling to install yet an other voice software, I haven’t yet given it a try, even though it sounds and […]

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Public / Private Variables and Methods in JavaScript

By Cody Swartz | Published: December 9, 2012

Every time I want to write some Object Oriented code whether it be PHP or JavaScript I require a slight mental jump start to remember each language’s syntax, but hopefully with enough repetition I’ll start differentiating and remembering the syntax. I ran across a really nice article at phrogz.net Object Layout Private Variables and Methods […]

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Next-Gen Storage in DNA

By Cody Swartz | Published: December 6, 2012

I was reading an article this morning about storage/encoding of data in DNA as well reading the data back (supplemental readings here). I am quite amazed at how early this research started, but at the same time I am afraid of the idea that we could be using our own bodies for storage of data. […]

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Waypoints + ScrollTo = Fruity Delicious

By Cody Swartz | Published: December 6, 2012

Have you ever seen a site’s navigation follow you as you scrolled down the page, and update as you continue to scroll down?  If you haven’t  you can see a very simple example at the waypoint’s site or my outcome for my class project plan.  You can also download the waypoints library there. Ever since I’ve seen so […]

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Find out how many domains your shared server hosts & bluehost review

By Cody Swartz | Published: November 29, 2012

I ran across this really awesome tool yesterday while reading up about bluehost and upgrading from a large shared server to their “pro plan”. via: http://www.codemyownroad.com/upgrading-bluehost-pro/ Awesome tool to find out how many sites are hosted under an IP / shared server host http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/ The reason I set out to read about this is because I […]

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