September 28, 2008

Escaping the Loop

Get me through this… semi-charmed kind of life. da-da da-da!  I want somethin’ else. To…
Rinse, repeat.  Don’t you hate when you get a stupid song stuck in your head and one line of it just keeps playing over and over and over and over?  It just won’t stop!  So-called earworms often get us frustrated when [...]

Linux Command Line Basics

I remember when I first discovered the command line.  The ERP software package at work runs on a SCO Unix server and is designed to be very idiot proof and start up immediately upon login.  I was born in an ugly Microsoft Windows world where you click on everything and little boxes pop up in [...]

September 27, 2008

9 Applications Written in PHP

So you love creating new applications in PHP, but who wants to do something that’s already been done?  So in this post I’d like to cover nine of the best PHP based pre-packaged apps.  So you can install these and work in their world rather than cover old ground.  Or maybe you’re just looking for [...]

September 17, 2008

The (3/7/42) Big Myths of Tech Blogging

To what do we owe this great debt of (gratitude/anger/delight)?  To the powers that have given us the (ease and convenience/frustration and disgust/absolute pleasure) of (PHP/Javascript/Python/VBscript).  This (piece of doo/paper tiger/constant annoyance/programming language) is the (worst possible/most magnificent/fools) choice for use in a (production environment/shack in Afghanistan/failing business).   The entire design of this language is [...]

September 16, 2008

The Chromium Web

What’s this?  A technological advancement?  Google’s new open source browser named “Chrome” is available starting out as an executable for Windows, but reviews are saying that it shows innovation as well as advances in speed, specifically in the area of Javascript execution, due to the V8 Javascript engine, and the incorporation of WebKit into it’s [...]