Ryon Sherman’s Blog

PHP Generated Visual Code Representation

Posted in Programming by Ryon Sherman on 01/07/2009

I sometimes get the feeling I should have been a graphics programmer rather than a web programmer. I always seem to get some sort of satisfaction from communicating data visually.  Aside from this quickly outdated GoogleGraph class I wrote to wrap the Google Chart API, nothing I’ve created in this field has become useful. But this doesn’t stop me from dreaming up new ways of using the GD libraries.

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My Ubuntu 8.04 Server

Posted in Linux by Ryon Sherman on 01/07/2009

It’s no beast, but it’s more important than my left leg.  With a 2.2Ghz x86_64 AMD LE-1600 processor, 2Gb RAM, and just under 3Tb of combined disk capacity all on a 3Mb /s connection…my home server isn’t breaking any speed records (actually I’m considering some upgrades as I write this).  But you can find me logged in to it more often than WoW.

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