Visiting one of my daily input sites, Hacker News, I came across a blog post that I took offense to with the link: “Hipmunk needs to ramp up on usability.” Hipmunk is not my site, so why would I take offense? Because Hipmunk is the Harvey Dent to my Bruce Wayne. Because I believe in… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Technology
Netflix Streaming Service Now Available in the U.S. Virgin Islands
While we enjoy a great many things down here in the Virgin Islands, one of the things we do lack of is some of the common conveniences that many take for granted back on the mainland. One of those wonderful things was the introduction of Netflix streaming capabilities. Having the ability to stream television shows… Read more »
Creating a Table of Contents from HTML in PHP with DOMDocument and No Regex
While hanging out in the Freenode ##php channel, a user came along asking how to create a table of contents from an HTML string by extracting the header elements. Many suggestions came through including using Regex or a jQuery solution. Using Regex to parse HTML in PHP is a bad idea and can get quite… Read more »
Professional Technologist
My name is David Drake. I am a father and technologist who revels in creating things and tackling difficult problems.
Appreciator of the outdoors. Enjoyer of good humans, cooking, aromatic coffee, and plants. Actor for many years. Very fond of science; particularly astronomy and quantum physics. Likes to grow things and travel. Commodore 64 tattoo. Fan of PBS, Apple, and The NY Times. Constantly learning and loves to teach.
Everything I say is my own opinion and not representative of any organization.