Tag: matthew batchelder

  • Art: Self Portrait

    I have finally decided to join the countless others out there and draw a self-portrait. Overall I don’t think it turned out too bad. Drawn with an Intuos 3 in Photoshop. Self Portrait by =borkweb on deviantART

  • Plugin: Sexy Comments v1.4 Released!

    [[innerindex]] Introduction This has been a long time coming and I am happy to announce the release of Sexy Comments v1.4! With this version comes a lot of changes…so be sure to read the installation section! Along with simple optimizations and general restructure, the following features are now available: Feature List Ajax comment preview (new…

  • WordPress Plugin: Sexy Comments

    Unhappy with my theme’s comment display, I recently re-coded a sexier comment display as a plugin so others can sexify their comments as well. Download the plugin. Features Forum-thread-like comment layout: User information to the left, comment to the right. Author post highlighting Altered Trackback/Pingback Display Formating Avatars Either display/hide avatars Select your avatar service…

  • Remote JavaScripting Example – Part I

    [[innerindex]]At Plymouth State we work in a multi-server environment and often wish to display dynamic content from one server in an Ajax-like fashion on another server’s website. My co-worker, Zach Tirrell, and I have drummed up a solution that works to keep our layout and logic separate, while still serving our end users in a…

  • Finally. A Cool Looking Human Clone.

    After the success of cloning Dolly The Sheep, I am pleased to announce that scientists have finally perfected the Human clone. Check out the perfection as my clones check my tomato-mushroom-and-basil quiche, fetch me a cup of water, put bread in the breadbox, and place utensils in the dishwasher…all while I snapped their photo. All…

  • Writing Your Server-Side Ajax Handler

    [[innerindex]]In my recent post on ‘Ajax; Templating; and the Separation of Layout and Logic,’ I refer to an Ajax Handler that sits server side to handle Ajax calls. Some elaboration is in order. As I have stated in the past, I’m a huge fan of Prototype AND I choose PHP as my language of choice…so…

  • Ajax; Templating; and the Separation of Layout and Logic

    [[innerindex]] The Background I have often mentioned my process of expanding my proficiency of Ajax. Through my journey I have made a number of wrong turns and hit my share of stumbling blocks. All of that has been a learning experience and I’m learning still. I began fiddling with XMLHttpRequest as many do – blissfully…

  • MasterWish Enters the Web 2.0 World

    MasterWish has been my labor of love for the past 6 months. The site – create by Zachary Tirrell, Jon Emmons, and myself – was opened to the public (in beta mode) in the middle of September. Over the past month, we’ve been pretty excited about the whole Web 2.0 craze. The initial release was…

  • MMORPGs and Perception of Value

    I made a post a little while back that on MMORPG Cheating and received a very interesting and convincing argument from Gaming Freedom that I thought warranted another post. Basically, the previous post was to emphasize how MMORPGs should be taken a little bit more serious when it comes to its future and how they…

  • World of Warcrack and the future of MMOGs

    [[innerindex]] I began gaming in the early 90’s. Looking back at what gaming was then compared to what it is today causes me to do a double take. Things have changed so much so fast. Of particular note is the Online Gaming industry. What started out as geek-only text-based fantasy games has morphed into a…

  • Don’t Use the Internet

    Oh man. Friday I bought the domain name DontUseTheInternet.com. The purpose of the site will be to blog all kinds of complaints as to why we should boycott the internet…on the internet. Anyhow, that same day I purchased the domain, some dude up in Canada was looking at that domain name too. He saw that…