http://jmbennett.org a little bit of everything Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:25:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At 8 AM on Friday morning, Joelle and I were at the Verizon store in Camillus checking out Verizon's two new Android-based phones: the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris. Joelle got me the Droid as an early Christmas gift and, at the request of Ryan, I'm taking some ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/11/08/motorola-droid/ Today I turned 22. I have neglected this blog for quite some time and figured today would be as good a day as any to post. There are two main reasons for today's post.  The first is that I have been trying to come up with an idea for a new ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/10/23/the-big-2-2/ Following is a (only slightly edited) note that I just sent to my sister on Facebook.  The settings available on Facebook are a mystery to many users, so I tried to give her a quick overview of what's there along with some recommendations.  My sister isn't super computer-savvy, so I ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/08/07/facebook-settings/ Joelle and I got married last weekend!  Those that were there know that the ceremony and reception went really well and that everything turned out great.  The day went by so fast that we don't even remember it all that well. On Sunday morning after the wedding, we flew to Colorado ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/07/21/wedding-and-honeymoon/ I haven't posted in an eternity, I know. It's been over a month since I graduated from Clarkson and just about a month since I started my job in Liverpool, NY. Things are going well so far and I'm trying to learn as much as I can about my job ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/06/22/stuff-2/ Today I officially received my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. The graduation ceremony, though a bit long, was very nice.  I especially enjoyed the bagpipe/drum marching band that led the processional into/out of the arena at the beginning and end of the ceremony. Remarks given by the various people in ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/05/10/bs-in-cs/ I've just released version 0.3 of the Google Calendar Feed Parser.  This update was a quick one but definitely deserved a new version number.  Since I wrote the plugin I've received feedback from many users indicating that PHP's file_get_contents() would not work on their hosting provider.  A few of these ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/04/22/version-03/ I just released version 0.2 of my Google Calendar Feed Parser plugin for WordPress. The new version confirms compatibility up to version 2.7.1 of WordPress and also adds one new pseudo-feature. When I originally wrote the plugin, I had some trouble with the start and end times for events displaying ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/04/19/version-02/ Ryan and I recently did a project detailing the process of setting up a Subversion server. The procedure is really simple and only takes about 15 minutes or so.  If you try it out for yourself and find any problems, please let me know. http://jmbennett.org/2009/04/15/setting-up-a-subversion-server/ I was just looking through some old posts and came across this one that was a follow up to my release of the Google Calendar Feed Parser plugin for Wordpress.  At that point (about 2 weeks after the release), I'd had my plugin downloaded 50 times.  I thought that was ... http://jmbennett.org/2009/04/07/update-google-calendar-feed-parser/