Monthly Archive for February, 2007Page 2 of 13

Your Real Tax Rate: 40% (For Married Couples…)

I guess it’s still tax season, so this is kinda relevant. (I really need to finish my taxes…)

Your Real Tax Rate: 40%

40%, eh? Too bad this article didn’t include anything about singles in their 20’s…

More SOAP Related issues

I’ve pretty much given up on this project (Going to be doing the AJAX calls for Google Search… definitely going to be posting another happy post later…). Thinking through Marc’s Question/Comment of why I didn’t use the SOAP libraries that PHP came with, I decided to change a single line in the PHP code to make things work.

From:

$soapclient = new Soap_Client('http://api.google.com/search/beta2');

To:

$soapclient = new SoapClient('http://api.google.com/search/beta2');

Notice the difference? I guess there really wasn’t a reason to even look at NuSOAP, but I really didn’t know too much SOAP back then, and didn’t even know that there was a native PHP library for it.

Now the problem is this error that I keep getting, regardless of using the core PHP implementation of SOAP or NuSOAP:

Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn’t find in ‘http://api.google.com/search/beta2′ in /Users/jk/Sites/google/index.php:32 Stack trace: #0 /Users/jk/Sites/google/index.php(32): SoapClient->SoapClient(’http://api.goog…’) #1 {main} thrown in /Users/jk/Sites/google/index.php on line 32

If anyone has any insight on what the heck this is talking about, do leave me some love. From this point on, if this problem does get fixed, it’ll just purely be for fun, and not for an actual project. I mean, the Google API Key that I have for this project isn’t even mine anyway: It’s from a co-worker.

Just in Case you don’t know of this little thing called Digg

Code Monkey

Code Monkey like Frito

Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew

Code Monkey very simple man

With big warm fuzzy secret heart:

Code Monkey like you

So silly, and so true. I’ll let the Fritos pass, but… Tab? What male programmer in their right mind drinks tab? I thought it was a feminine drink? It should read like this:

Code Monkey like Fritos

Code Monkey like BAWLS and Mountain Dew

Code Monkey very simple man

With big warm fuzzy secret heart:

Code Monkey like you

Aw Yeah.

Tee hee.

Not today…

Absence of post making you antsy? It’s making me tired.

Let me do a little braindump.

You don’t know how much I want to watch and report on Panel of Web Community Founders: Utter Defiance of the “Venture Capital” Model. Since my lent commitment is still going on… this isn’t happening until later. I just hope this video stays online until then.

I was floored to see that Marc Liyanage commented on the post about my PHP novice…ness. I guess I have a reply to his question, with the answer being “since I still don’t know SOAP very well… and for some reason, a lot of the example code online was using NuSOAP…”. I have a post coming up on this very issue, and actually… I tried using the PHP core SOAP classes… but it seems like the problem is on the Google side.

I think I need an about me page. At least, a category for it, so that I can continually update who I really am… because Josh Kim has many faces.

Posts waiting to be finished:

  • RSS Feed Market Analysis
  • Zooom Application Review
  • FedEx + Google = Wow’ed and Worried Josh Kim
  • Mac Copycat Windows Applications
  • Code Monkey: The Tribute to the Song
  • CX-300 Earbuds: Lesson in Word-of-Mouth Advertising

… and many more. These are only the blog ideas that sprang forth into my mind today.

Okay, I’m falling asleep again. Maybe tonight, I’ll return to the 5:30 AM lifestyle.

Or not. I could just sleep in. Finally…

A Step towards DRM-freedom

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Just click it. I didn’t know what it was about when I first read it, either… I feel like going and pulling up some DeCSS code.

Thank the world for tried-and-true hackers. (No, not crackers… these are the few and the proud that makes this world a livable, free from silly protection schemes that end up hurting the legit.)