Archive | Technology

08 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Quit bitching about the iPhone 4 and the fall of Apple!

This is a rant about rants, I apologize, but I can’t take it anymore. The iPhone 4 is not a failure, it is not Windows ME, or Vista or the single mouse button failure from the 90′s. This isn’t to say that the iPhone 4 doesn’t have some problems, obvisiouly it does. But welcome to [...]

Continue Reading

18 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Just upgraded my first VPS with VPS.net

It was pretty cool, and I’m not going to lie, i was nervous. I went through and bought another node. I scheduled the storage upgrade to happen in a few days b/c all I really needed was the extra ram. I went through and purchase screen, then the server stopped, upgraded and restarted. In less [...]

Continue Reading

14 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Working with WordPress 3.0

I’ve been working with the latest development snapshot of WordPress 3.0 (Currently 3.0-beta2-14640). It’s pretty damn nifty. I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve seen so far. I’ve been able to create secondary and utility navigation’s using the new Menu’s under the Appearance section. I’ve also a huge fan of the ability to create new post types. [...]

Continue Reading

06 February 2010 ~ 2 Comments

DD-WRT & my new Asus RT-N16

I’ve haven’t used a manufacturer’s  firmware on my router in YEARS. Seriously since like 2003 or 2004. I started of using OpenWRT, which was the first one out there of this kind. It allowed you to run Linux on your Linksys router. This was freaking awesome. I used, loved it, and might of fried one or two [...]

Continue Reading

12 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

New Look

Time for a new theme. There are still some things that need to be ironed out, and just flat out updated. But over all, I like this look and feel much better. This one is much brighter and welcoming then the other one. Which was had a grunge look and feel to it, with muted [...]

Continue Reading

Tags: ,

11 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

A couple of chrome switches

This isn’t anything too new, but just a few switches I use with my chrome install. This is more or less for my documentation, but I thought it might help others. First, Pin Tabs, while this isn’t anything new, a switch allows you to pin the first number of x tabs. This is beneifical. I [...]

Continue Reading

14 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Stackoverflow and Family

I’ve had an account on Stackoverflow.com for almost a year, but haven’t done much with it. Last night I set up my account on both Superuser.com and Serverfault.com and went through and answered a few questions. I got to admit, this is pretty cool. I enjoy helping out where I can, I’ve done it on [...]

Continue Reading

10 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

MySQL Backup with UTF-8 Data

I’ve never given character sets and encoding much time. I half way understand how it works, which for me is unusual. I normally have to understand things at a level that lets me talk to the subject fairly well. And sadly, this one I don’t. I don’t have the time or energy to really dive [...]

Continue Reading

Tags: , ,

12 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Delicious Bookmarklets for Google Chrome (or any browser)

I’ve found myself using Chrome more and more has the days go by. It starts up faster the firefox, tabs open faster, and the pages open just as quick, if not quicker. There isn’t much to dislike about Chrome, even flash plays well. I still keep firefox around for several things, web development, certain stubborn [...]

Continue Reading

28 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

CodeWorks 2009 – Dallas, TX

I was lucky enough to make it out to the CodeWorks 2009 Conference that stop be in Dallas this weekend. This was my first programming conference to go to, and I had a blast. You can view the schedule of talks that I attended. I didn’t make it out to the Saturday talks, but I [...]

Continue Reading