In the project that I’m working on (let’s call it BrainCredits v2.0), I wanted to integrate a user’s Gravatar into the system (like how StackOverflow does it). To Gravatar’s credit, they make it very easy to incorporate a user’s image – just hash the user’s email address (which I have) to the end of their URL and you’ll get the image back. The email address just has to be hashed using the MD5 algorithm, and they provide examples of how to do that in PHP. Oh, it looks so easy: echo md5( "MyEmailAddress@example.com ......
Well, another Philly Code Camp has come and gone, and it was a great time. I made it a one-day trip, which I think I'm getting too old to keep doing. Left the house at 4 AM from Pittsburgh, made it to Philly by 8:15 AM; I left around 4 PM and got home by 9 PM (no thanks to my TomTom, which took me on a scenic tour of old town Fort Washington). I was expecting a nice and relaxing day at Philly Code Camp where I had one talk (A Beginner's Guide to LINQ) at 2 PM; but I got an email from Marc Ziss asking ......