http://www.omaruddin.com Strategize. Collectivize. Realize. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2010/03/01/multiple-domains-or-sites-on-a-single-wordpress-mu-instance-at-rackspace-cloud-sites-when-no-wildcard-needed/ 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, ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2010/02/10/quick-method-of-clearing-time-machine-backups/ 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 http://www.omaruddin.com/2009/09/10/make-history-with-the-national-september-11th-memorial-museum/ 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 ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2009/09/08/wcf-net-35-on-the-rackspace-cloud/ With the upcoming release of Ableton Live 7, I wanted to give all my fellow Ableton-hungry producers some of the resources that I've found to be useful with regards to VSTs and Ableton 6's instruments and Live Packs. Must have Live Packs (Free or cheap!) Ableton Live Packs DownloadsThe Covert OperatorsFree Ableton ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/10/30/essential-ableton-live-tools-and-live-packs/ 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 ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/19/iphone-gps-hack-converts-your-iphone-to-a-personal-navigation-device/ 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. ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/13/user-interface-testingqa-tool-for-web-developers/ 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 ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/10/data-visualization-oh-so-pretty/ A recent article of an interview by Guy Kawasaki on the authors of a book called "egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability)" is a great read for anyone moving up the ranks of their career and other avenues of potential success in life. Personally I ... http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/10/are-you-an-egomaniac-or-just-confidently-ambitious/ 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? http://www.omaruddin.com/2007/09/06/another-reason-to-love-apple-the-iphone/