Kyle Mulka's Blog

I knew someone was going to do something like this. Here it is:

Learn to Dance with Napoleon Dynomite

Here’s an AIM bot that will record a message for someone who isn’t on AIM. Kinda cool, but there’s not much technical information on the website that I can build from to make my own bots.

NoteServer

This is kind of like Yahoo’s directory, but seems to be a bit better because it is edited by thousands of volunteers and not just a few hundred people like Yahoo’s probably is. Correct me if I’m wrong.

ODP – Open Directory Project

This is the only decent profiler/debugger I’ve found so far. Let me know if there are others.

DBG | Tool for debugging and profiling PHP applications | PHP for Linux, Windows and Unix | Apache, PHP | Debugger and Profiler.

Quoting a conversation with a friend who I talk to all the time on AIM, but never on the phone:

Her: well it doesn’t matter, I would call you anyway, if I wasn’t phone phobic
Me: haha
Me: why are you?
Her: I don’t know, but it’s gotten pretty bad lately, I screen all my calls and I never call people back, except my parents
Her: I just hate calling people
Me: you don’t call people back?
Her: I get nervous
Me: that’s horrible
Her: no, I don’t, i know it’s rude too
Her: and it’s my friends, not some stalker boy or something
Me: yea
Me: that’s bad
Me: you need phone counciling
Her: lol yeah I do, it’s ridiculous
Her: I bet you people think I don’t like them because I don’t call them back

For PHP programmers, here’s a PDF presentation on using PEAR classes to make development faster.

Rapid Prototyping with PEAR

University of Michigan Wiki Entry

Open source web applications… Rock on. BTW, this is what UofM uses for its webmail.

The Horde Project

Remote Scripting is cool because it doesn’t cause the entire page to reload, and is used for some cool web applications like Google Maps and Gmail for example. Here’s an example using Javascript Remote Scripting.

The ESP Game is kind of interesting. It is similar to the game Taboo. You are given some images and you have to give a word or a few words describing the image. If you guess the same as your partner, you get to move on. But, you can’t see your partner’s guess. If Google could figure out how to get people to identify images like this, their image search would be much better.