My iMac was rock stable, right up until I installed Mountain Lion on it. Â Then, at random times, it would suddenly reboot. Â Fortunately, most of it seemed to happen at night – I’d get up in the morning and find my Mac had rebooted. Weird. So, I finally got around to investigating the problem – …
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MAME comes to the iOS App Store – Donkey Kong on my iPad, here I come! How long with it last?
Mobile Flash and Silverlight are dead – and Flash for the desktop isn’t far behind.
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. Â It’s a hands-on training for creating new posts, new pages, editing menus, and the other core features of WordPress. Â It’s not the worlds most in-depth training, …
Almost without fail I add caching to all the sites I deal with for customers (and myself) at the end of the project. Â And for the longest time the procedure was always the same thing: Â add WP-SuperCache, enable it, and do just a slight bit of tweaking to get it all nice and streamlined. WP-SuperCache …
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I had an interesting opportunity come my way – the chance to speak to the Wichita Professional Communicators gathering at Larkspur in Wichita, Kansas. Â Now, I’ll admit – giving me a chance to speak in front of people always gets my attention because I absolutely LOVE talking in front of crowds, throw in free lunch …
I’ll admit it – when it comes to business cards I’m a complete slacker these days. Â 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 of cards printed. Â I’m also too cheap to replace my broken printer here at the …
Recently I needed to have a category where each post in the category had a different background. Â Wordpress doesn’t have something specifically for that – it’s a rather obscure need, really. Â It’s not everyday that you need to put the tartan for each Scottish clan on each clan’s post. Â Last year I did it a …
Developers, myself included, have a frequent problem with blaming the customer when we get a bad review or bad feedback about a product. Â I don’t mean always, but it’s quite often – the user reports something is wrong, but in reality the user didn’t use the app properly. Â Take this gem for instance, which just …
I’ve been using PhoneGap for a while – 0.8.something was the first version I used. Â 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. Â Easy cheesy, and if you don’t specify a URL handler, it’s assumed to be a …
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