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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Behold, CameronHinkle.com!

The time has finally come for me to have a legitimate personal website, which you can now find at www.cameronhinkle.com. My previous site, which I created to get a job, was at cs.pdx.edu/~cch/. I put a lot of work into it but at the time, I didn't realize what had happened in the 6 years since I had made a website (what is...."css"?!). So now that I'm a little more up to speed, I've created a whole new layout and new site. I've been reading a lot of books on web design, CSS, XHTML, and useability so hopefully it shows in my new layout.

Of course now I need to consolidate. I've got a blog here and a website there, so my next project is going to be to somehow get this blog to look like the new site. I spent the evening figuring out how to do that. After hours of struggling, I decided to take all the CSS from my current site and paste it into Blogger's template box and it is closer than anything I've come up with so far. I'm trying it out on my other Blogger account so take a look at if you're curious. I hope to have it finished soon. In fact, I hope to have the whole website finished soon because starting August 27th, I'm going to be sitting in front of my television playing with my Wii for a really long time. I stopped at GameStop to get a copy of Sonic for Debbie (which she is surprisingly good at!) and asked the clerk when Metroid Prime 3 was due out. To my complete shock, he said it was a mere month away. That made my day.

On a side note, the fact that I did not know when Metroid Prime 3 was coming out- especially given that it was a month away- says a lot. Save about a 1 year phase in high school, I was the most knowledgeable Nintendophile I knew. There's part of me that's a little disappointed, but there's also a big part of me that is happy. And just think, if I hadn't spent that fourth year at GameStop, I might still be trolling the System Wars Forums every day. So thank you to GameStop for helping me quit cold turkey.

Comments

Damian said...

Hello Cameron,

Loving the php api for google photos. I have been building a fun little photo gallery for my website. I have only run into one problem that I cannot figure out. My code works fine on my localhost but when I upload it the authentication does not seem to work.

$pic = new Picasa();
$pic->authorizeWithClientLogin($user, $password);



$picasa_account = $pic->getAlbumsByUsername($user,null,null,"all");

$albums = $picasa_account->getAlbums();

with the following errors

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /home/madinb5/public_html/photoapi/Picasa/Account.php on line 210

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Not authorized to view access all in /home/madinb5/public_html/photoapi/Picasa/Account.php on line 210

Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /home/madinb5/public_html/photoapi/Picasa/Account.php on line 210
An error occured while posting the album: String could not be parsed as XML

Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 4:07 PM.
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