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Multiple Domains or sites on a single Wordpress mu instance at Rackspace Cloud Sites - when no wildcard needed

01Mar10

After talking to my friends Robert La Gesse from Rackspace Cloud and @vidluther from ThirdPartyCode, I decided messing with domain alias feature of Rackspace Cloud Sites so I could save money from getting a Cloud Server, VPS or slicehost.
If you need to run multiple-separate domains and one base master Wordpress template theme with multiple children […]

Quick method of clearing Time Machine Backups

10Feb10

I often run into this problem since I bought a Apple Macbook Pro when using Time Machine to safeguard my hard drive through a full backup.
I noticed that it would take hours, sometime never finishing if I just try to delete the folder through Finder on the Time Machine drive.
Instead, I found a command line […]

Make History with the National September 11th Memorial & Museum

10Sep09

I just had to post this on my blog. I’ve been heavily involved with geo-spatial applications lately and mapping interfaces for our upcoming product, VolunteerACT and found this Google App Engine / Google Maps API mashup very compelling.
Make History with the National September 11th Memorial & Museum

WCF / .NET 3.5 on the Rackspace Cloud

08Sep09

For those of you folks who are considering a cloud hosting solution for your ASP.NET web apps with or without WCF services, I strongly recommend you test out Rackspace Cloud.
I had some trouble getting things working but found an excellent article that should help you .NET developers looking to use Rackspace Cloud Sites as […]

iPhone GPS Hack converts your iPhone to a personal navigation device!

19Sep07

For those of us wishing the iPhone included GPS receiver built in, this is a short term solution that’s a hack at best but even if it is ‘off’ by 100 yards, I can at least avoid the time wastage that occurs with putting a starting address into the driving directions feature of the iPhone […]

User Interface Testing/QA Tool for Web Developers

13Sep07

A good friend of mine, Vid Luther from PHPCult / Linuxpowered.com, showed me Selenium, a nifty Firefox extension, today for developing test cases that you can play back into the Firefox browser including pauses, delays, keystrokes, form values, and link clicks.
Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a […]

Data Visualization - Oh So Pretty!

10Sep07

Have you ever been into a meeting with a presentation being shown by some techie or project lead that attempts to describe some kind of trend or probabilistic projection and been bored by the visualization? Well many sectors of the economy rely on very simple visualization tools that aren’t at the fore front of data […]

Another reason to love Apple + the iPhone

06Sep07

Steve Jobs deserves an applause again!
In addition to the recent price drop from Apple for the 8GB iPhone model, an open letter from Steve Jobs gives any first-to-buy iPhone owners a $100 offer towards other Apple gear.
Are you loving apple yet?

Essential TabletPC tools and software

19Aug07

So I’ve been yapping about touch screen technologies a lot this year (Apple iPhone, Microsoft Surface, Jeff Han’s Multi-touch) and you may have enjoyed the essential tools I’ve posted for Apple’s iPhone but I thought that my fellow TabletPC friends out there could enjoy some of the tools and resources that I’ve been enjoying on […]

A New Theoretical Model for time travel being imagined

13Aug07

Technion Israel Institute of Technology researchers have developed a theoretical model of a time machine that, in the distant future, could possibly enable future generations to travel into the past. An article on this research was published last week in the scientific journal Physical Review.
By tweaking Einstein’s space time and general relativity models these […]