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A site for testing the new tools I'm building, and a little talk about what I'm learning on the way.

VGA Planets "Nu" - The official VGA Planets remake

For those of you who know me well, you'll know I've always had a soft spot for the science fiction video game VGA Planets. In fact, I've been a player for nearly 20 years and so has my Dad. As a software developer I've often thought about making a new version of the game as the game gets older and older and the technology more outdated.

Sending Email from Amazon EC2

There have been a few posts around about the proper way to send email using Amazon EC2. I have found that overall it is not that difficult and...

Using SSL (https) with Mono HTTPListener

These steps took me a little while to figure out and didn't seem to be all in one place. Using you GoDaddy or other signed certificate you can get...

.NET MimeTypes Class in C#

This is my quick class for determining the MimeType of a file by its extension. It is very basic. Please post more types if I am missing them so I can keep it updated.

Great WordPress Plugins

Tiny MCE Advanced - Add all TinyMCE functionality back in. Great for enabling tables:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/ Members...

Flash IO Error #2038 when Uploading Files in .NET

If you are using a flash uploader to upload files with a progress bar to your .NET application and getting IO Error #2038 you may be hitting the 4MB...

Javascript DOM Ready for SSL in IE

Many of the existing javascripts snippets you see on the internet to determine whether the DOM is fully loaded do not work properly in Internet...

Javascript Replace All with Variable

Here is how you replace all values in a string with another string which is inside of a variable using Javascript: var str = "Please change all...

New Projects for 2009 with News Statistics and Analysis

In January we re-launched an old website of ours into our big new project for 2009 and beyond. Something we're very excited about and something I've...

Google Chrome - it really is a better browser

I have to admit, when I heard Google was going to enter the "browser wars" with their new browser Chrome I, like many thousands of other web...

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Welcome

My name is Joshua Perina, a Canadian from Edmonton.

I am a freelance web developer. I am personally interested in large scale observations made on the internet as a whole as a way of learning something about ourselves, the "human being". I try to use technology to make and analyze these observations.

I use this site to organize and publish some thoughts I have on technology and occasionally on life.