This code is crap

...I should know, I wrote it. Just a place to whine about my programming and other IT shit I don't want on my main. (don't wanna mix shipping and bitching about git being a tosser now would we?)

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bonus: my_log() - because ye gods, do I hate sorting through  error_logs!

function my_log($message,$label="",$fancy=false) {              if (is_array($message)) {         $message = print_r($message,true);     }              if ($fancy && $label !="") { //fancy with a label         error_log("-------------------------------");         error_log($label.": ");         error_log($message);         error_log("-------------------------------");     } elseif ($fancy && $label == "") { //fancy with no label         error_log("-------------------------------");         error_log($message);         error_log("-------------------------------");     } elseif (!$fancy && $label != "") { //label but not fancy         error_log($label.": ".$message);     } else { //just log it         error_log($message);     } }

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shift() - get a darker/lighter shade of a #hex color. Needs cutoff() and both hex functions to run.

function shift($hexcode="#ffffff",$proc=0.3) {     $rgb = hex_to_rgb($hexcode);              //color shift     $rgb['r'] = cutoff($rgb['r'] + $proc,0,1);     $rgb['g'] = cutoff($rgb['g'] + $proc,0,1);     $rgb['b'] = cutoff($rgb['b'] + $proc,0,1);               return rgb_to_hex($rgb); //result color }

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is_dark() - says if color is dark or light, so you can use white or black type over it. Obviously, not so good with the edge cases, but better than nothing. Needs hex_to_rgb().

function is_dark($hexcode="#ffffff") {     $rgb = hex_to_rgb($hexcode);     $luminance = ($rgb['r']*0.299 + $rgb['g']*0.587 + $rgb['b']*0.114);     if ($luminance > 0.5) {         return false;     } else {         return true;     } }

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hex_to_rgb() and rgb_to_hex() - self-explanatory I hope.

function hex_to_rgb($hexcode="#ffffff") {     $hexcode = str_replace("#", "", $hexcode);          //separate hexcode     $redhex  = substr($hexcode,0,2);     $greenhex = substr($hexcode,2,2);     $bluehex = substr($hexcode,4,2);          //to rgb 0..1     $r = (hexdec($redhex)) / 255;     $g = (hexdec($greenhex)) / 255;     $b = (hexdec($bluehex)) / 255;          return array(         'r' => $r,         'g' => $g,         'b'    => $b,     ); } function rgb_to_hex($rgb=array(1,1,1)) {              //to hex parts     $redhex = dechex($rgb['r'] * 255);     $greenhex = dechex($rgb['g'] * 255);     $bluehex = dechex($rgb['b'] * 255);          //combine into hex string     $hexcode = sprintf("#%1$02s%2$02s%3$02s", $redhex, $greenhex, $bluehex);     return $hexcode; }

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the dumbest of them all - cutoff(), basically a riff on Arduino's constrain()

function cutoff($num,$low,$high) {     $val = max(array($num,$low));             $val = min(array($val,$high));     return $val; }

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I've been working on PHP color manipulation, so I'll post a bunch of functions I wrote for it. (It's reinventing the wheel, probably, but how else you're supposed to learn, right?) The tag is "PHP color manipulation".

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attempting to synchronize the GitHub and WP Plugin repos, and then start using git-svn from there.

Wish me luck, I spent days googling and I still have no idea what I'm doing.

[amiagoodperson]

pythagoras tree - stalks

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Example of the SuperCollider experience: trying to understand what the heck is an all-pass filter.

It has math. And electronic circuit diagrams. And words that don't look like English. 

Maybe I should just file it away as "the thing that does the thing" and hope it'll make more sense later.

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The truth of higher education: for all the boring and anoying shit you have to wade through, there are those moments that inspire you and open a whole new world to explore.

Take me, for example: desperately counting credits in my last year of undergrad, I've signed up for a course called Sound art. I expected... seriously, I don't know. Something weird but hopefully survivable.

Instead, I discovered a new world of programmable music. Did you know you can write code that makes sound? I mean, of course it does, but I've never even thought about it before! And I've never cared about 'experimental' music either, but now that I have to listen to it, I'm intrigued.

Right now, I'm playing with SuperCollider. And it's so freaking difficult to understand for someone who has neither music nor math background. But you suddenly see how math is sound, and you can write some code and you can hear it, and it's all connecting dots I didn't even know were a part of a puzzle! And it's freaking amazing.

And yeah, my inner five-year-old has a field day. I can write a piece of code and things go bloop!!!

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This wordpress plugin is something I developed for the company I work for right now, and we decided to release it to the public. It’s a replacement for one function of Role Scoper, a significantly larger plugin that was recently discontinued.

It enables the administrator to create lists of pages and limit user access (editing, deleting and optionally creating other pages) just to these pages. Typical use would be on a company site that uses a lot of shortcodes the administrators don’t want the users to mess up (eg. gallery shortcodes and the like).

I’m hoping to polish the plugin’s current functionality in upcoming versions, and then start adding new features - I’m thinking about tag/category based filtering, for example.

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Soooo, this is what I've been raving here about. WP plugins, oh my!

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Oh No, I Have A Tumblr API Idea - the title of my future autobiography, apparently.

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today's "...duh!" moment

yes, you can use the JavaScript console to actually execute javscript. You know, so you don't have to add console.log() to the code and reload the site million times over...

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okay, so this was weird.

The company I work for has X separate wordpress installations. One of the things I've done is to install a plugin that checks broken links. 

Today, as I'm doing my own stuff, suddenly a warning email comes. And then a second one. I log in and hey, someone misspelled a link. I correct it... and on the second website, it's the same link. Obviously, someone is copying over a company-wide info and has the link wrong.

As I'm correcting these, a third, fourth warning email comes. So I'm literally going after someone and correcting them, in real time. Not something that happens in webdesign that often! 

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boss-level coding = making three partial commits where each passes all its unit tests.

*disco dances into the sunset*

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The moment when you realize that yes, these methods really should be in another class...