Gyrolabs

I’m thinking about writing a desktop Facebook application. If anyone has ideas let me know. Should I find a good idea, I’ll also write a custom C# client class and make that available for download.

With the holidays approaching, I’ve been busy with a few projects. Here’s what’s coming the the (kinda) near future:

• ICM Version 3.1 - A few bug fixes and feature adds. The most noticeable feature will be the ability to hide outages under x seconds, as well as a few other GUI interface additions and changes
• Easythumb 1.0 - A PHP Page for quickly generating image thumbnails, with support for adding watermarks as well

Just released:
Internet Connection Monitor version 3.0

Most of you have never heard of this, but it’s been a project of mine for the past 2 years, although I haven’t really actively been updating it. Just a brief history:

This was created to monitor my internet connection because it frequently cuts out for long periods of time. I needed something to show my ISP to prove to them that the service kept dropping. For this, I created a simple BASH script that would ping our ip every x seconds, and wrote a log of outages. This system was extremely limited, however, so about 6 months later, I wrote a Python version. Still, this version was buggy and inadequate. So now I release version 3.0.

It is written in C# and:

• Puts an icon in the system tray that shows the current status of the connection (red for down, green for up)
• Shows balloon tips when the connection drops or comes back up
• Options for changing polling interval, port, server, and where to save the logfiles
• A logfile viewer that parses the logfiles and tells you how long the connection was down

Click Here to Download ICM Version 3.0

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To use the Spacer Generator:
spacergen.php?option1=value&option2=value
These are options that can be applied to any pattern

New in Version 1.1

Pattern Style	Examples	Arguments/Options	Introduced In
Grid		spacing=integer — spacing between lines linesize=integer — width of the lines	Version 1.1
Vertical ZigZag		zigheight=integer — the height of the zigzag spacing=integer — the distance between the zigzags zigright=1 or 0 — reverse the zigzag	Version 1.1
Horizontal ZigZag		zigheight=integer — the height of the zigzag spacing=integer — the distance between the zigzags zigup=1 or 0 — reverse the zigzag	Version 1.1
Checkerboard		blocksize=integer — the size of the blocks	Version 1.0
Diagonal Lines		dir=rtl or ltr — the direction of the lines spacing=integer — the spacing of the lines	Version 1.0
Crossing Lines		spacing=integer — the spacing between the lines As of now, there is no support for changing the linesize	Version 1.0

Overview:
Quick collection of functions I use in all of my web applications
There is extended documentation in the lib file.

Features

• enclose_string($var[,$enclosewith]): encloses either a string or an array with a string or quote. If no “enclosing string” is specified, it encloses the strings in ‘
• create_query($array,$table,[insert or update,[$id,[$idcol]]]): Creates a SQL query from an array
• escape_quotes($var): escapes quotes in either a string or array and prevents double-escaping that can occur with addslashes()
• print_menu($array): recursively generate a menu from an array

Click here to download WD PHP Lib 1.0

Overview:
Quick collection of functions I use in all of my web applications

Features

• request(url): simplest ajax call ever
• sqlsafe(string): escapes quotes as you type
• sqlsafe_hidden(string,field):does what sql_safe does but stores the escaped string in a hidden field
• $(id): alias to document.getElementById() (this was taken from prototype.js)
• numbers_only(string[, allowdecimal]): allows numbers only (optionally allows decimal points)
• alpha_numeric(string): return letters and numbers only
• turn_color(fieldid, color): change a field’s background color (useful for form validation)
• setCharAt(string, index, newchar): set a specific character in a string