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><channel><title>Joe Bivins</title> <atom:link href="http://joebivins.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://joebivins.com</link> <description>Web Developer, Wesley Chapel, FL</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:31:54 +0000</lastBuildDate> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Marathons</title><link>http://joebivins.com/2010/03/01/marathons/</link> <comments>http://joebivins.com/2010/03/01/marathons/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:38:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Etc.]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://joebivins.com/?p=1907</guid> <description><![CDATA[Between miles 18 and 19, I overhear two people standing off to the side of the road talking about marathons.  One of them mentions that he hiked 26 miles in the mountains once but it took awhile to do.
I ended up finishing Tampa&#8217;s Gasparilla marathon in 4 hours 29 minutes 2 seconds (middle of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://joebivins.com/2010/03/01/marathons/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Screenrecording Thoughts</title><link>http://joebivins.com/2010/02/27/screenrecording-thoughts/</link> <comments>http://joebivins.com/2010/02/27/screenrecording-thoughts/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:03:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Screencasts]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://joebivins.com/?p=1906</guid> <description><![CDATA[After not having much luck using a screen recorder for the Macintosh and a free recorder for the PC, I&#8217;m evaluating one of PC commercial programs.  My situation is a bit odd since I&#8217;m doing these recordings of a guest operating system running in a virtual machine.  After stumbling last Summer and Fall, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://joebivins.com/2010/02/27/screenrecording-thoughts/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Disabling Gmail&#8217;s Buzz</title><link>http://joebivins.com/2010/02/10/disabling-gmails-buzz/</link> <comments>http://joebivins.com/2010/02/10/disabling-gmails-buzz/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:41:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Practicality]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://joebivins.com/?p=1901</guid> <description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll see it when you login.  Buzz.  10 e-mail contacts are automatically added.  For the few minutes I looked at it, it appears to have the capability to gather your content from various sources and share it with others.
Perhaps you want it to go away, but it awaits you on the left [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://joebivins.com/2010/02/10/disabling-gmails-buzz/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The G220f CRT Monitor, Windows 7 and the Coveted 100 Hz Refresh Rate</title><link>http://joebivins.com/2010/01/02/the-g220f-crt-monitor-windows-7-and-the-coveted-100-hz-refresh-rate/</link> <comments>http://joebivins.com/2010/01/02/the-g220f-crt-monitor-windows-7-and-the-coveted-100-hz-refresh-rate/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:01:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://joebivins.com/?p=1844</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even though I built a new PC, I did not want to purchase a LCD monitor, preferring to squeeze more life out of my aging 21” Viewsonic G220f CRT monitor.  (Edit 1/16 &#8211; Okay, I did buy one.)  I always set the monitor resolution to 1280&#215;1024 @ 100Hz.  Windows XP has a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://joebivins.com/2010/01/02/the-g220f-crt-monitor-windows-7-and-the-coveted-100-hz-refresh-rate/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Strings and Character Positions</title><link>http://joebivins.com/2009/12/03/strings-and-character-positions/</link> <comments>http://joebivins.com/2009/12/03/strings-and-character-positions/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:01:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://joebivins.com/?p=1722</guid> <description><![CDATA[A sequence of characters compose a string.  PHP comes equipped with an arsenal of string related functions.  This posting will cover three string functions:  strlen, strpos and strrpos.
Strings are enclosed in a pair of either single or double quotation marks.  Characters are taken at face value when enclosed in single doubles. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://joebivins.com/2009/12/03/strings-and-character-positions/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Object Types</title><link>http://joebivins.com/2009/12/01/object-types/</link> <comments>http://joebivins.com/2009/12/01/object-types/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:53:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://joebivins.com/?p=1690</guid> <description><![CDATA[There is one function and one binary operator for determining if a variable is an object.
Is_object
is_object($aVar) &#8211; Determines if $aVar is an object.  When $aVar is instantiated (created) from a class, this function returns true.  Otherwise it returns false.
We need an object to work with.  This primitive caveman will suffice.
File:  Caveman.php&#60;?phpclass [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://joebivins.com/2009/12/01/object-types/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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