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My first dynamic website

_theMarriedGeek — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:19:22 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about coming across an old website of mine from 2006. While I have yet to find the source code for it, I DID happen to come across my very first ASP website from 2004.

One feature is the Access database has an “admin” login with a blank password. Security be damned!

The site itself was a VERY basic message board site that would let users sign up and post topic on the page, as well as links, photos, and jokes. Even the hosting interface has not changed after over 6 years.

Finding this site gave me the opportunity to see how far I’ve come as a developer. In the last 6 years, I’ve moved from classic ASP, to PHP, to ASP.NET.

The source code (minus the database) is posted below. It’s embarrassing.

Download Messagebox V1

Web memories

_theMarriedGeek — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:37:24 +0000

I took a break from the slower-than-usual day at work to take a look at Internet Archive (web.archive.org), which, as the name implies, archives web content over time. This includes not only sites, but images, scripts, etc. It’s an awesome non-profit project that is perfect if you need to find an extremely old blog post.

For shits and giggles (more giggles), I punched in my old website, ryanpetersonline.com, and immediately was pulled back in time; back to 2006. Everything that was relevant at the time – everything from talking about my first home server to our new (now aging) couch – was there, spanning about 1 years time. After reading through the wide-range of topics I ranted and wrote about, I realized that I sort of miss blogging.

Maybe I’ll get back into it. I’ll start by adding these archived posts to THIS blog. It’ll be funny to pull these up 50 years from now and see what was relevant, assuming the internet is still here and we’re not all floating in cloud (web joke).

All things Connor

_theMarriedGeek — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:25:00 +0000

Wow, it’s been a LONG time since I posted here. There’s good reason too – busy job, busy house, and of course, our first son Connor was born on August 19th. I’ll be making a lot of updates, but not so much tech-related.

On that note, I encourage you to check out my newborn son’s website, connorpeters.com.

It’s an early build, but still in development

_theMarriedGeek — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:46:34 +0000

I took the day off (well, it was supposed to be the morning, but we ran into complications) to visit the OBGYN with my wife in order to get a checkup on our collaborative project. Here’s an early screenshot of the latest build.

In about nine weeks we should be able to find out the sex. At that point, I can begin registering his or hers domain name.

Vacation stress levels

_theMarriedGeek — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:59:30 +0000

I found this amusing, and very true. This pretty much lined up with our recent vacation to the Outer Banks. Scary…

Sadie Cam is live

_theMarriedGeek — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:51:41 +0000

I like to keep an eye on one of our dogs, Sadie, as I’m beginning to leave her outside of her cage. In an effort to make sure she doesn’t destroy the room, I set up the Sadie Cam, which is viewable here.

The cam is usually on during work hours. Enjoy.

Macbook Pro Disassembly

_theMarriedGeek — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:22:45 +0000

Presented by Ice-T.

Damn this allergy!

_theMarriedGeek — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:32:43 +0000

Ugh, I’m too distracted to work or, or, even post! I was going to elaborate on my earlier post and talk about composite controls and using delegates to create custom event handlers but, meh. I may do this later or this weekend.

Even my Claritin (well, the Giant rip-off) has failed me. Here I am, only 6 hours since I took it and my throat is dripping like a leaky faucet.

I am reading a new book though, called SQL Tuning (O’Reilly), that I picked up used from Amazon. So far so good. Geeky, yes, but it really gets into the ground-zero levels of performance tuning queries and pretty much how disk and memory buffers are affected with different types of optimizations. Fun stuff.

I don’t recall laundering that!

_theMarriedGeek — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:11:31 +0000

Belle just crawled right in last night.

A few more Loading Dock tunes…

_theMarriedGeek — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:13:00 +0000

A few Loading Dock practices I found. I’m the drummer.

Let It Go (Original)

Shady Lady (Original)

Real World (Matchbox 20)