Category: VAULT Links

Here is a link to the U.S. SBA. Just in case anyone wants to start a small business.

Risk qualifies as one of my all time favorite board games. Well now I can play Risk via Google Maps. This really shows off the flexibility of Google’s API and what is possible when a company makes that kind of power openly available.

Thanks to Jason I have discovered the wonderful world of Urban Dead is a massively multi-player web-based zombie apocalypse game. Create a character (human or zombie) and start to do battle with others online for control of the city. No flash, ActiveX, or Java required. Currently I have two characters; brockers and S1ider but I think one of them will become a Zombie pretty soon based on the fact that I left him sitting outside on the street because I didn’t entirely understand the daily usage limits.

Urban Dead also pointed me to another (admittedly less advanced) web-based MMPOG called Vampires! The Dark Alleyway. brockers can also be found in Vampires.

Newsforge has a nice tutorial on setting up a invoicing system with OpenOffice.org. It’s mostly aimed as small business markets who store their customer information in a generally available address book; but the information might be useful as a tool for SMB open source consulting.

Got a couple really cool links. The first is by a guy who built his very own Sentry Gun. Its made from an air-soft bb gun but who cares. That is what I call home defense!

The second link is 20 CSS tricks. Things like making rounded corners without images, styled lists, tab bars, etc.. Very cool stuff if you are into web design. Just make sure you are running a real web browser (i.e. non IE.)

Living in Oklahoma, I am constantly trying to find out-door activities for my family and I. Found a link to Oklahoma City Outdoor Network. Covers just about every out-door activity happening in the OKC area including camping, hiking, climbing, kayaking, sailing, fishing, hunting, and lots more.

I am getting a pretty big thread bug in my mod_perl/apache setup. It seems to have started when I began using the new credit card server. Looking for some tips on mod_perl administration (to help with debugging) I found this link and this link. Both of which are part of the online mod_perl Guide.

…and for a second helping of “link-o-the-day” we have the interactive zip code finder. Just click on the image and start typing a zip code. Anyone know where a zip code for Alaska?

XHTML and CSS have made the web a much prettier place to visit. Yet, there has always been an area of web development to eluded styling. Radio and check boxes are hard to style (don’t get me started on IE’s CSS support) and amazingly difficult to make revert back to sensible defaults (when no Javascript or CSS is available.) Someone has finally accomplished this in a fairly manageable manor. He technique is not intuitive, if it were it would have been done along time ago, but the vast majority of the work is pushed to an outside Javascript file; making it easy to implement.

Quick link, I needed a place to lookup calorie, protein, fat, and carb information. A quick Google search turned up a couple. The best one I found was Calorie King. Contains information on restaurants, pre-packaged food, and (what was actually the most difficult to find good information on) fresh foods like vegetables and fruit.