Over the last few weeks, I’ve been conducting a bit of a Twitter experiment. The experiment itself is on going and I’ll write about it sometime in the future, but one of the fruits of the experiment is a WordPress plugin. I’ve been hacking WordPress plugins for a while now, but this is the first […]
Finally found a WordPress plugin which does auto-tagging of posts by looking for a list of tags in the post content. I modified it a bit to make it also search for occurrences of existing used tags in the new post. I find this more handy since I can then just manage the regular WP […]
Ever since I bought a Logitech mouse for my wife’s new MacBook Pro, we were getting kernel panics every couple of weeks (yes, the BSOD of OSX does exist). Suffice to say I was none too impress with Apple. Turns out, not their fault. I stumbled upon this thread which indicates tha Logitech Control Center […]
In another example of Microsoft being more about legal wrangling than software development, Jamie Cansdale has been threatened for making TestDriven.Net work with Visual Studio Express. TestDriven.Net is a very popular unit testing addon for Visual Studio and one that Cansdale earned a Microsoft MVP award for developing. I can’t believe the morons in Redmond […]
Considering I’ll have a lot more to capture on video come August, I decided to look into purchasing a camcorder several weeks ago. I read some reviews, went to a few stores and generally did my research. I ended up deciding on the JVC Enverio line of HDD products. JVC has been building hard drive […]
I haven’t even run Vista. Even though I’m a developer and make my living off Windows application development, I am frankly just not an OS tire kicker. I didn’t buy a Mac until Tiger came out, I still run the stable (_sometimes_ the testing) release of Debian and I haven’t tried Ubuntu as a possible […]
I’m not generally one to wade into the OS religious wars. I use all of the top 3 major OSes on a daily basis and all of them have benefits and drawbacks. However, these pictures comparing the system calls for a webpage request to Linux/Apache and Windows/IIS are quite eye opening. The opportunity for security […]
I got me an iPod Shuffle about five months ago and up until early last week I was loving it. It is small, convenient, and makes yard work, commuting, and walking the dogs a little more interesting. However last Monday my shuffle decided to die on me. It started showing signs of the infamous orange […]
Ever since I got the shuffle I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts. I monitor about 10 or so podcasts in iTunes for interesting episodes but there is a core group of casts that I always make a point to listen to. Here they are for your listening pleasure. Drunk and Retired – This […]
I prefer to have the admin section of my WordPress installation secure. It just makes me feel better. Then WordPress 2.0 came along and caused a few issues. I think I’ve gotten around them.