FaceProject Creates Framed Photos Using PHP GD library

The above photo was generated using FaceProject, a PHP class that takes a photo of a person and generates a stylized and framed version of it. I spent last night creating FaceProject, simply to toy around with the GD library…

Email2Image – PHP Library to Convert an Email Address to Image

Email2Image is a PHP library that I wrote to securely convert email addresses to PNG images. The project is hosted on GitHub here: https://github.com/jesseforrest/Email2Image This basic example will show how to select the font to be used and output an…

Log Manager: COM Port Card Logging Software Written in Visual Basic

In October of 2004, I decided to take on a new project at college.  I was determined to write software that could be used in the Computer Science Major’s Lab to monitor who came in and out.  I originally began…

How to Convert URL’s in Text to Links Using PHP

The function below takes in a string of text and converts all URL’s that start with "http://" to an HTML link. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19…

robots.txt vs meta tag. Which has precedence?

Question: If you have a robots.txt file and a meta tag within an HTML web page, that contradict each other, which has precedence? Answer: If there is a conflict between the directive in robots.txt and the meta tag directive (e.g.…

Time for a change…

It was time that I took down my old website.  I figured I could at least post a couple photos from it for posterity sake.  Goodbye old friend…