www.davidhbrown.us

Here's what you can find on this site:

• bookmarklets -- short JavaScript snippets that can be stored in a bookmark to do useful things.

Use the URI library proxy to access the current web page (useful for retrieving journal articles):

javascript:location.replace(location.protocol+'//0-'+location.host+'.helin.uri.edu/'+location.pathname+location.search);

Given a 6-character hexadecimal color in text selected on the current web page, convert to its RGB equivalent for CSS:

javascript:(function(){var hex=parseInt(/[0-9A-Fa-f]{6}/.exec(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:''),16);prompt('Copy to clipboard:','rgb('+(hex>>>16)+','+((hex&0x00ff00)>>>8)+','+(hex&0xFF)+')')})();

• Egg size cheat sheet -- useful if buying eggs from local producers
• String Pattern Matching Heuristic Table Calculator for URI's CSC 440 class. (December '09)
• Notes on getting GnuPG to work with PHP+Apache on FreeBSD (Nov 3 '08)
• A "real" binary clock. Not that wimpy binary-coded decimal stuff :)
• Make your own angled USB plug (November 2003)
  • Update: now you can buy one (no, not from this site) (March 2004)

Yup; that's it. For now at least.

Actually, there are some pages and scripts for my wife, Dr. Rebecca Brown (URI Plant Sciences), hiding on this site too. Email me or her if you are having trouble finding or using them.

Ways to distinguish this David Brown among many:

• I've been accepted to the Master of Science in Computer Science program at the University of Rhode Island. Looks like my thesis will be with the Machine Learning group... have some ideas for improving certain aspects of SOM visualization.
• I'm one of the first 1000 people to pass the Zend PHP Certification Exam, making me a Zend Certified Engineer.
• American Assocaition of Swine Veterinarian (I'm their webmaster / electronic publisher)
• Core Communications (I'm a former employe, then an increasingly occasional independent contractor; I think we're about done now)
• West Kingston Elementary School (I was the PTO treasurer from 2006-2008, designed a fairly pretty web page for them and kept it maintained from about 2005-2009 but they decided to move to FirstClass district-wide and the design and content were not maintained in that system.)
• Saint Olaf College (I'm an alum, though it doesn't matter much out here in Rhode Island [nor did it in Oregon]...)
• Way back when the web was young, Sams.net was determined to publish a book linking every single application Adobe offered to web development. Amusingly, this was shortly before Adobe bought GoLive! Trying to find someone to write about Adobe Dimensions --an EPS-based simple 3D program -- they found my name in a Usenet posting. Eventually, I contributed chapters on Dimensions and a general overview of Adobe applications and technologies. Adobe Web Design & Publishing Unleashed is long since out of print, and Amazon's listing doesn't even mention me any more... but writing for a corporation was a useful thing to experience. Page 50 shows an early version of the AASV home page being edited in PageMill, and on page 52 are some of the graphics I was editing in Photoshop for my aunt-in-law's folk music duo (now trio). I'm flattered that they're still using some of the graphics and page layout I did for them so long ago: http://coopernelsonearly.com/.

Some links you might find interesting?

• windlist.org -- the home of a mailing list for discussion of wind instrument-like synthesizers such as the Yamaha WX series controllers, the AKAI EWIs, etc.

Copyright (C) 2003-2010, David H. Brown. Don't steal my stuff; I won't steal yours. But I'd probably be really happy to share.
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