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I'm a work from home web geek, a father of three, a husband, a World of Warcraft nerd, a martial arts/kung fu practitioner, a musician and many other things. Product reviews, technical articles, April Fools posts, life stories, oh... and we have comics!
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Building ChromiumOS (The Google OS)
I’ve been watching all of the hype about downloading and running the latest Google creation, ChromiumOS this week so yesterday I decided to take a stab at it myself. I did not however want to simply grab a VMWare image and run it. I’m a ...
Nike+ iPod : Cheap Fix For Failure
I’m a runner and I use the Nike+ iPod gadgetry to track my runs. It is very easy to use, convenient and it helps me to be motivated. Well, about three weeks ago it started failing. At random times during my run it would just queue the end of ru...
Manage Video Clips in iPhoto 6
I was searching the internets this past weekend in search of a simple solution for managing and organizing my video clips on my Mac. I have a somewhat dated iMac with OS X version 10.4 and I don’t have the latest iLife versions. My current vers...
Descriptive Enumerations In C#
I had the desire to create an enumeration in C# the other day and I wanted to be able to attach a description to each item in the enumeration. I did the searching on the internets and put together examples from several sources that I found. Here is a...
Reason 4 + Virtual MIDI Driver + 64bit Vista
I’ve been a user of Propellerhead Reason in the past, but recently I wanted to dust off my chops and try to create some tunes again. My problem is that I don’t have a MIDI interface to attach my keyboard to this PC (yet). So I figured I&#...
A WordPress Plugin - Hello XML-RPC World
In a previous post (How Can I Modify The WordPress XML-RPC System?) I outlined how one might create a plugin that adds functionality to the WordPress XML-RPC server. I’ve had some questions from some readers arise so I wanted to take the opport...
How To Manually Merge WordPress Tags
With the advent of “tags” in the WordPress blogging platform there have been several very good plugins introduced which can handle management of your tags. This includes merging tags. Why Would I Want To Merge Tags? One word… duplic...
PHP Init Style Status Message
Yesterday I talked about created SUCCESS and FAILED status messages in a Bash script (Bash Script Init Style Status Message). Well, on occasion I use PHP for shell/system scripting and of course I thought it would be nice to incorporate my new status...
Bash Script Init Style Status Message
Have you ever wondered how the OK and/or FAILED messages are printed out in the initialization of services on a Linux system during bootup? Well… I have. Anyway, I’ve always thought that it was really cool how the OK and FAILED messages p...
How To Create A Bash Install Script
Have you ever wanted to create an installer program on a Linux system, but didn’t want all the hassle of an actual install builder? I have. I recently had need of a simple, no frills installation that could: ask the user a few questions extrac...
How To Use Subversion Over SSH
The Problem I recently had a problem. I am a software developer and as such I use source control. For this purpose I generally prefer Subversion. I have been keeping my source repositories on an external drive with the intention to back them up to an...
PHP Script To Monitor FTP Directory Changes
I recently had the need to be able to monitor a directory on an FTP server for changes and to then be notified of those changes. I’ve been working a lot in PHP lately so I decided to use that to implement my script. FTP Access FTP (file transfe...
Bash Script Naming - Say My Name, Say My Name!
I use Java as my main Linux server programming language these days and so I usually have a Bash script to go along with each program. The Bash script help encapsulate creating the proper CLASSPATH needed to run the Java program, calls the correct Jav...
How Do I Get Meta Data From MySQL Using PHP?
I know you’ve all asked that question before, right? Well maybe not, but I recently had the need to detect what the DATATYPE for arbitrary columns in arbitrary tables were inside a MySQL database using PHP. Turns out that it isn’t all tha...
Inserting A Picture Into Your WordPress RSS 2.0 Feed
I use NetVibes for my browser home page and RSS feed reader and I’ve noticed over time that some of the feeds that I subscribe to have pictures embedded within their feed summary. Why doesn’t my feed have a picture in it? I thought that t...
Calling A Stored Procedure In Java With A Blob Field
Here is the situation. You are writing a program in Java. You need to access data in a Microsoft SQL Server via stored procedure and the data has an XML field. A what field? SQL Server 2005 introduces a new datatype for XML. It is essentially a blob ...
Looping Through Pages In WordPress
In a recent article I outlined how to modify the output of the wp_list_pages() template function in WordPress. Later on, however, I found that having the <span> tags that I added in every single title was not desirable. So instead of using a ...
Writing A WordPress Filter To Modify Post/Page Titles
I was recently working on a new WordPress theme when I had need to modify the title of pages before output. The style I was attempting to use involved wrapping <span> tags around the title (inside of the href tags). The wp_list_pages() functi...
How Can I Recover My Lost MySQL root Password?
Many people use the MySQL open source relational database server. Mostly for websites, but I’ve also seen it used elsewhere. One problem that I recently ran into with my local development installation is… “what was my root password ...
Where Did My Categories Go?
To tag heaven. Ah, yes… tags. The teacher’s pet of Web 2.0. The category list on this blog had become rather unwieldy as I just plugged in new categories whenever I did not feel like putting any thought into organization. I never really l...
How Can I Tell If My Bash Script Is Already Running? - Part 2
In my first posting on this topic I outlined a manual method by which you could code Bash scripts to check to see whether or not an instance of the script was already running. This is very useful in scripts that might cause adverse affects if more th...
Vim Tips - Where The Heck Am I?
I just wanted to post a few quick tips on using the Vim (vi iMproved) text editor. Whenever you are editing a large text file in vi you may want to know where you are? What line am I on? Well, it’s actually quite easy. Just type CTRL-g and look...
