I'm Dan Previte, a web developer and a geek in general living in Chicago and working for Caxy Inc.

Archive for the 'General Boringness' Category

New Syntax Highlighter

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Well, WordPress got borked yesterday when I installed a bunch of plugin updates. I fixed the syntax highlighting by writing my own plugin. It just takes Geshi and does some extra regular expressions to make it look the same in WordPress as it does in E-Texteditor. Here’s an example:

  /**
   * Parser Controller
   *
   **/
  [...]

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Yahoo Is Lazy Too

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Anyone who has ever used a site I’ve built has probably noticed that I get a little lazy when it comes to directions on forms, etc. I usually say something like “Fill out the blah and blah” meaning for someone to fill it in later, and sometimes it just never happens. For example, here’s a [...]

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Last.fm, wtf?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Last.fm, why would I like a band called To Suck My Dick? What are you trying to say? Hmm?!

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Why I Love The Internet #3042934

Friday, February 8th, 2008

More ridiculous comments:
 
The article is kinda boring, but the comments are amazing. The headline is a reference to a Derrick Comedy bit, and then the comments go downhill from there.
If you’ve found my blog while googling my name before doing a job interview or something, how about you read one of these instead.  [...]

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Supercuts Sucks Supercocks

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Edit: For all of you people searching for s u p e r c o c k s, what’s wrong with you? Is it supposed to wear a cape or something?

So today I go to Supercuts because I’m a cheap bastard and they’re right around the corner, and some new guy (I think) who must [...]

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