March 2011
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Its Easy to Change the World
When you think about it, its so easy to change the world. The tough part is changing the world, and making money.
Changing the world. Who doesn’t want to do it? To change the world is to truly achieve, which is what many would argue (myself included) is the real point of our lives. People always dream of being that person to change the world, to leave an eternal mark on the history of...
September 2010
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Getting into Web-Desktop Integration and GUIs
Lately I’ve been not so much changing, but expanding, my interests when it comes to programming. Up to about 2 months ago, I would have told you I was a web guy for life. I was strongly opinionated when it came to programming for the desktop. I would have told you, “The Web is the future, why should I program for the desktop? Its dying. Everyone would rather have a web application than...
May 2010
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Update - May 2010
I’ve been pretty much knee deep in work lately. School is about to wrap up, which is nice. But it seems like nobody is giving me a free ride to the end of the year, I have one or more “end-of-the-year project”s for just about every class, which will undoubtedly delay the progress of my personal projects and my freelance site/web-dev blog which is now like…4 months in...
March 2010
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Come on Baby Light my Fiber!
The Google Fiber sensation is sweeping the nation, city after city is jumping in trying to get their community’s broadband speeds up to a legendary 1 Gigabit per Second (gbps). First, for a second, lets look at just how fast 1gbps actually is. If your internet speed down (meaning for downloading) is 1gbps, you are downloading at a rate of 1,000 Megabytes per Second (mbps). Most MP3 files...
February 2010
3 posts
Why We Need Ogg Theora, Not H.264 for HTML 5
One of the latest subjects of tech chatter lately has been about HTML 5 video killing flash and becoming the next web standard. With YouTube, Vimeo, and some other web streaming sites beginning their transition to HTML 5 this seems like a real possibility and is certainly welcomed by everyone. However, it seems that the video format that the HTML 5 video tag will indicate is still up in the air....
The "Robots Meta" Plugin for Wordpress
There’s no easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin.” When messing around with trying to improve SEO for this blog I read an article about the importance of restricting spider access to certain places as well as the use of nofollow links. To do this I attempted to create a robots.txt file for restricting spider access,...
Google Buzz...Okay?
Google Buzz…for those of you that don’t know Google Buzz was released on February 9, 2010 (the day this post is published) and is, simply put, a social networking tools such as link sharing and status updates through G-mail. It is virtually a social network integrated with G-mail. I tried Google Buzz today, and my first reaction is: Why?
Right now we’ve got virtually two social...
January 2010
6 posts
Why I am Currently Inclined to Say "No" to The...
Before you take one look at this post and say “Just another Apple hater” just wait a second. I am aware I have been a notorious Apple hater in the past, but I’d like to justify that and take an honest look at what I think of the iPad, and why I think what I do. First lets talk about why I have a tendency to hate on Apple. Its not Apple themselves so much as the Apple fanboys. I...
Firefox Add-on "Session Manager"
If you’re like me you often have a load of tabs open simultaneously when working on something. Recently I started development on my first Wordpress theme, and so far I must say its going along well, but when designing I have a bunch of tabs open such as the development blog itself, the back-end for the development blog, several from w3schools (my savior), and other helpful sites like...
Apple and Google: Friends or Foes?
Two of the biggest three technology companies today, Apple and Google are both beginning to reach critical mass. We knew this was going to happen but the question is, are they going to coexist peacefully or compete? It seems that several recent events have sent us, the public, mixed messages. Up ‘till now it seems that Apple or Google have had decent relations. They’re kind to each other,...
Why the Google Nexus One is Actually Underrated
Reading the title of this article I’m sure some of you are thinking “Underrated? Please…” and some others of you are thinking “Hell Yeah! Finally someone is speaking openly about why this isn’t just another phone!”. Well reader #2, you got it right. The Google Nexus One isn’t just another phone, or even just another Android phone. The Nexus One is...
Review: Sam's Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24...
Thank goodness, I finally learned JavaScript at a functional level. I’m excited, now I can actually write my own code instead of editing others. Of course you must just be dying to know how I did it …actually you probably do, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. Well, anyway, I learned it using a book, not off the internet, but with a book. Fascinating isn’t it, I never...
Web Design Theory: The Color White
I think its important I share a few tips with you all that I’ve picked up about web design, a favorite site of mine, owned by a good friend just completed its final redesign and it looks great. SaidByNick.com utilizes a simplistic yet beautiful interface that really shows the maturity of it’s designer, the biggest indicator of that is it’s use of the color white. So today I would...