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Alex Barberis — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:18:46 +0000

If Top Kill doesn’t work, we’re just gonna toss a giant “Get Well Soon” card into the gulf and hope for the best. #bpcaresless than a minute ago via webBP Public Relations
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Hell yes.

Alex Barberis — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:53:16 +0000

I just found out.

New STP May 25th. Teaser here.

Another 13.1

Alex Barberis — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:43:31 +0000

So I ran another half marathon. It was the Miami Beach 13.1. Well I attempted to run it. I probably should have stopped when I got foot pain at mile 1. The weather was too nice to pass up…oh well. I got through it and got my medal! I’ll be taking a Brett Favre style retirement from running for a while.

I’m looking forward to running this race again. Hopefully next year I can stay injury free. I’d like to see how I can deal with all the big bridges while not having to deal with pain.

ASP.NET 1.1 Web Services and jQuery

Alex Barberis — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:06:15 +0000

While working on a project today I figured out how to use jQuery’s $.ajax functionality to consume an ASP.NET 1.1 web service. I was always under the impression that this wasn’t possible. However, this is quite easy. By default an ASP.NET 1.1 web service will accept an HTTP GET, HTTP POST, or HTTP SOAP. Calling a 1.1 web service is as easy as:
[javascript]
$.ajax({
type: “POST”,
url: ‘PathToYourService.asmx/FunctionName’,
data: ‘foo1=value1&foo2=value&foo3=value’,
dataType: “xml”,
success: function(xml) {
//do something with your data
}
});
[/javascript]

Replace the data variables with your service parameters and you should be all set. jQuery makes parsing all that XML really easy as well.

I did it!

Alex Barberis — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:49:30 +0000

I ran my first half marathon this weekend. It was the Miami ING marathon. The humidity was awful but at least we didn’t get the rain that was supposed to hit us. It was tough but I got through it and I’m still standing (sort of). This was a major accomplishment for me. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to do this. I’m doing another one in 5 weeks!

Camping Time Lapse

Alex Barberis — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:33:22 +0000

I made this video on our camping trip this weekend. It’s about a 2 hour span crammed into 24 seconds. Pretty cool… This app on my phone is the coolest thing ever.

Stop Motion Lunch

Alex Barberis — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:11:21 +0000

I used iMotion on my iPhone to create this short time lapse video. It snapped a picture every 30 seconds. The playback is 15 frames per second. Pretty cool little app. I can already imagine a bunch of uses for this.

Airboat Riding In the Everglades

Alex Barberis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:24:34 +0000

I’ve always wanted to take a ride on one of these. We beat the rain and got a really nice ride in. We even got to get off the boat and walk around in the swamp water. It felt like pudding. It was pretty cool. Here are some videos:

I didn’t think these boats slid around so much. Our driver kept doing all kinds of crazy stuff.

Here are some 10 month old baby gators, they aren’t afraid of humans at this point in their life.

I’ll stick to my current day job.

It’s alive!

Alex Barberis — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:28:10 +0000

After a few hours of wiring my new cocktail is up and running. Now it has 60 games on it, all the classics. It was a bit intimidating at first seeing the entire JAMMA harness and not knowing where anything goes but after studying some paperwork a few minutes it all made sense. I just need to do some tweaking wiring a few more things and monitor adjustments and I’ll be ready to tackle the control panels. I’ll be replacing them with new units, switches, and buttons. I also need to get a new glass cut. Here are some pics:

Ms. Pac Man!

Alex Barberis — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:54:24 +0000

I just picked up a Ms. Pac Man cocktail. This is the first arcade game I’ve ever owned. I’ve spent a few years looking for a Ms. Pac Man cocktail. It’s in great cosmetic shape. The only thing that bugs me is the control panel. At some point someone hacked up the original art and added a few buttons to convert it to a 60 in 1. I plan to replace the art with something nice and put some proper buttons on it so all 60 games work. The game could also use a new JAMMA wiring harness since the last conversion wasn’t the cleanest thing. I’ll update the site once I progress on the restoration.