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One of my current clients recently commissioned me to write a feature for their site that allows visitors to listen to snippets of MP3 tracks that they sell directly from within the product’s “detail” page. In my particular situation, one of the requirements was to use the design commissioned by a separate design firm. In … Read more

One of the things that I’ve missed greatly since moving to using a laptop as my primary machine just over 3 years ago is the ability to run multiple monitors. My old tower machine had a pretty hefty video card (for the time) in it that had both DVI and VGA connectors built in.  At … Read more

A few weeks ago I read a series of articles titled “Inbox Zero – Action Based Email” on the 43Folders web site. I had been looking for a better way to keep up with all the things that I needed to do and had happened upon the Todo application for iPhone as discussed in a … Read more

I suppose I’m terribly late in having this revelation but it dawned on me last week that the future of a lot of a significant part of what we do in our our day to lives is going to depend on “the cloud”.  What do I mean by that you ask?  Let me ’splain something … Read more

Those of you in the web development industry will immediately know what I’m talking about (and maybe some of the more observant web users too). Today is April 4 or 4/04 which in web parlance means “404 – File Not Found”.  Cheesy I know, but I thought it was funny when it dawned on me … Read more

Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous new year to all my readers (all 2 or 3 of you that I know of). We’ve been having family Christmas celebrations for a little over a week now due to our extended family being spread over two states. Tomorrow morning … Read more

Yep…for me another year is in the books.  Today is my 36th birthday.  We are celebrating as we have so many times before with a combined birthday get-together with my family. My sister’s birthday is July 8 (no, we weren’t almost twins, she is 5 years younger than I) so growing up we always celebrated … Read more

Just a quick note to mention that my blog is now running off my virtual private server at SliceHost.  My server is running Fedora Core 6, Apache 2.2 and MySQL 5.  It is using the 512MB / 20GB plan that SliceHost offers. There was some disucssion on the CFTalk list today about how bad of … Read more

I got home from this week’s trip to a client’s site early (earlier than planned originally, and WAY early in the morning).  After a few hours of near-death rest, the kids and I opened up and configured what may be the coolest Christmas present any of us give or get this year.  The interesting part … Read more