Archive of February 2008
- thrashr888 (me): so you’re not going to “ NASA Space Program Presents: The Role of Connective Tissue and Tensegrity in Enabling a Hybrid Distributed/Centralized Control Scheme for Complex Coordinated Human Motion”
- lucid594: haha
- lucid594: i went last year
- thrashr888: how was it?
- lucid594: it was too NEWBIE for me
- thrashr888: yeah, those NASA dudes are stuck in the sixties
Stock Portfolio Update
Apparently, it’s best to show your hand while working with the stock market. In the interest of transparency, here’s my stock portfolio:
| Company | Ticker | Shares | Avg. Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Inc. | AAPL | 5.00 | 157.732 |
| Google Inc. | GOOG | 2.00 | 547.46 |
| Research In Motion Limited (USA) | RIMM | 2.00 | 88.14 |
| Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | GS | 1.00 | 231.48 |
| MercadoLibre, Inc. | MELI | 2.00 | 68.76 |
| JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd… | JASO | 6.00 | 24.17 |
I’ve cut back to about half of my past holdings. Things aren’t going so well in this market, but I’m holding on and just not making any buys. I’m very much looking forward to the end of this bear market.
I use E*Trade for trading.
Find all the values of a key in an array
This is a recursive PHP function that searches all of the keys in an array and pulls out their values.
function multi_array_key_search($needle,$haystack,$keys_found=array()){
if(is_array($haystack)){
foreach($haystack as $key=>$val){
if(is_array($val)){
$keys_found = multi_array_key_search($needle,$val,$keys_found);
}else{
if($key==$needle){
$keys_found[] = $val;
}
}
}
return $keys_found;
}
return false;<br />
}Alternating background colors
I just wrote some pretty quick code for the age-old problem of alternating colors in a table. I don’t know how this could get any simpler. Sweet!
<? foreach($posts as $post){?>
<div class="<?=($c++%2==1)?'odd':NULL?>“>
<?=$post?>
</div><br />
<? }?><br />
<style>
.odd{background-color:red;}<br />
</style>Forcing a floated line-wrap in PHP
For every 4 floated elements, wrap to the next line:
<?=($b++%4==0)?'<br class="clr" />‘:NULL?>
Found a screenshot of the old vastermonster.com design. Super awesome!
A long time ago…