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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier I saw The Winter Soldier last night at the Marcus North Shore. As far as Marvel Avengers movies go, it was pretty good. It did not take itself too seriously but it...
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Bad Words
Bad Words I saw Bad Words on Friday night, at the Saukville Marcus Cinema. This is the story of Guy Trilby, a 40yr-old copy editor, who enters the national spelling bee. He exploits a loophole (the...
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Bears
Bears I saw Bears tonight, at the AMC Mayfair 18. It was an interesting departure from what I normally see. It is a Disneynature documentary that followed a bear with two cubs for one year. It...
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Transcendence
Transcendence I saw Transcendence on Friday at the Fox Bay Cinema. It is the story of artificial intelligence researcher, Dr Will Caster. He is working on building a sentient computer, capable of...
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Brick Mansions
Brick Mansions I saw this on Friday night, at the Saukville Marcus cinema. The story takes place in the recent future, in Detroit. Brick Mansions is a housing project that is so dangerous that the...
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How to reference a JavaScript object property with a hyphen in it
Recently, I was playing around with the Milwaukee County Transit System BusTime API when I came across an interesting problem. // Populate a drop-down to select a bus route function getRoutes(){ var...
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Chef
Chef I saw Chef tonight at the Fox Bay Cinema, as part of the NY Film Critics Series. It is the story of Chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau). He has a secure but artistically stifling job at a top LA...
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past I saw this last Friday, at the Fox Bay cinema. In the story, mutants are hunted relentlessly and are near extinction. As a last ditch attempt to save the present, they send...
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Godzilla
Godzilla I saw this last Saturday at the Fox Bay cinema. You can not talk about this movie without comparing it to Pacific Rim (a movie that I really disliked). The story starts in the 1950s, with an...
View ArticleMiwaukee I/O: Get answers to your questions in Milwaukee
This weekend, I attended the 2014 HackMKE Civic Hackathon. It was held at Bucketworks, in the Grand Avenue. I came to the hackathon with no real expectations. I just wanted to see how I could help...
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Million Ways to Die in the West I saw this on Friday night, at the North Shore cinema. Albert (Seth MacFarlane) is a cowardly sheep farmer in a small frontier town. Anna (Charlize Theron) comes to...
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Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow I have seen this movie twice now (and could easily enjoy a third viewing). In this movie, an alien invasion force rides an asteroid into earth. Once here, they quickly takes over...
View ArticlePHP: Basic Variables
So, you want to write some PHP? I’m going to go over some basics of PHP in the next few posts. This first post is going to cover basic variables. Step #1: You need to define set up your PHP file PHP...
View ArticlePHP: Fun with strings
In the previous post, we talked about creation of variables and output of their values. Let’s talk a little more about strings. As we covered, last time, you can store and output values like this:...
View ArticlePHP: Arrays, associative arrays, and objects
A programmer can’t get by with simple variables alone. Sometimes you need other tools. Let’s take a look at three options that you have. Arrays can be defined like … <?php $names = array('Joe',...
View ArticlePHP: Math, comparisons, and conditions
Arithmetic operations comparison of values are fundamental things that you need to do in any language. PHP is not any different. Let’s cover how it handles them. Let’s start with the arithmetic...
View ArticlePHP: Loops, functions, and server-side includes
Now that variables, ways of comparing variables, and conditional logic, let’s step it up a little and look at looks and functions. PHP has ‘do’ loops, ‘do while’ loops, and ‘for’ loops. Let’s look at...
View ArticlePHP: Taking form input and sending emails
Now that we have gone through variables, conditional logic, and functions, let’s look at how you take input from the user. PHP has two associative arrays for form data: ‘$_GET’ and ‘$_POST’. ‘$_GET’...
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PHP: Using PDO to query a database
PHP Data Objects (PDO) is a database abstraction layer that is available in PHP 5.1 and above. Before PDO, PHP developers used extensions like MySQL and MySQLi. So, why is PDO better than MySQLi? It...
View ArticlePHP: Using PDO to insert and update data
Previously, we looked at how to read data from a MySQL database, using PDO. So, how do you add records and update them? Let’s start with how to add a record … <?php // What are we inserting into...
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