Dec
21
MAME for the iPhone and iPad? This probably won’t last, but…
MAME comes to the iOS App Store – Donkey Kong on my iPad, here I come! How long with it last? Continue reading
Category Archives: Tech Blog
Nov
09
Flash is on life support…
Mobile Flash and Silverlight are dead – and Flash for the desktop isn’t far behind. Continue reading
Aug
24
WordPress Training Starting September 8th, 2011
Part of every website project I do is a training component – usually two hours, give or take a little based on how quickly the customer picks it up. It’s a hands-on training for creating new posts, new pages, editing … Continue reading
Aug
11
Improving WordPress Performance With W3 Total Cache & Cloud Flare
Almost without fail I add caching to all the sites I deal with for customers (and myself) at the end of the project. And for the longest time the procedure was always the same thing: add WP-SuperCache, enable it, and … Continue reading
May
04
Wichita Professional Communicators presentation
I had an interesting opportunity come my way – the chance to speak to the Wichita Professional Communicators gathering at Larkspur in Wichita, Kansas. Now, I’ll admit – giving me a chance to speak in front of people always gets … Continue reading
Feb
10
Fun with Business Cards
I’ll admit it – when it comes to business cards I’m a complete slacker these days. I used to always carry business cards with me, but to be quite blunt about it, I’m too cheap to have a big bulk … Continue reading
Jan
31
Per-post custom backgrounds in WordPress
Recently I needed to have a category where each post in the category had a different background. Wordpress doesn’t have something specifically for that – it’s a rather obscure need, really. It’s not everyday that you need to put the … Continue reading
Jan
26
Never Overestimate The Customer
Developers, myself included, have a frequent problem with blaming the customer when we get a bad review or bad feedback about a product. I don’t mean always, but it’s quite often – the user reports something is wrong, but in … Continue reading
Jan
19
A quick PhoneGap fix for http / https external browser launch problem
I’ve been using PhoneGap for a while – 0.8.something was the first version I used. As such, you sometimes take certain things for granted – for instance: <a href=”http://www.midnightryder.com”>Click Me</a> Would result in opening the native browser, pointed at MidnightRyder.com. … Continue reading
Jan
17
App Submission & Press Release Sites
As with any piece of software, apps for the iPhone / iPad have to have all the little marketing things done right. For instance, there should be a press release done (preferably at launch time, but for Fruit of the … Continue reading