Oh, boy. I love my iPod, it makes endless miles of running bearable, and it’s just a nice, sexy little gadget. Recently, my old Nano 2G died, and because Apple evidently felt the need to change a winning thing, I had to get a Gen 3 to replace it. The new shape doesn’t do it…
Category: The Geek Within
I've worked with Coldfusion for close to a decade now; wild, wonderful ride it has been — from the original Allaire product, thru the bumpy ride with Macromedia, and now the venerable web server engine is stuck with Adobe. Normally I run CF on a Windows server with IIS, but because Bill Gates refuses to…
Had to share this wonderful little hack that solved the day's sticky problem: how do you show content to non-registered users only in a Joomla site? It's easy enough to only show stuff to a user if he/she is registered, but what about the reverse scenario: make something appear only to the common hoi polloi…
A client of mine needed an entire website set up to run in English and Vietnamese (a fascinating language to see written — accents and squiggles everywhere, it’s really quite incredible, but a monumental pain in the neck to work with online). Joomfish of course is made for that sort of stuff, and works great.…
So, I’m trying to off-load a bunch of shots from my Canon EOS 30D, but all I have with me is my laptop, and it doesn’t have the Canon software installed, so I can’t transfer RAW format images. “Well,” I figure, “I’ll just go to Canon’s site and download the software.” But in their infinite…
Yes! This works. Very nice fix to a very annoying problem — I have several client sites that use bullet lists in various scenarios (both as traditional lists of “stuff” within copy, and as menus/list-of-links), and it’s always a pain to get the lists to show up properly and consistently across browsers. The biggest pain…
It’s probably old hat for many, but I’d never come across this site before. Brilliant — and it actually works, allowing you to do exactly what they claim: “Find and share logins for websites that force you to register.”
What a charming little mindfuck that is. Someone took GDP data for each state in the US and mapped an equivalent country across the nation. There’s just something vaguely intriguing about the resulting map. Equally incredible is this little toy built with some kind of google-fu back-end Flash data cruncher. Very slick way to massage…
Awesome. Finally someone built the web-app that handles family trees the way they should be done. For years I’ve tried various PC packages with a hardcore genealogical bent that all failed miserably at making the development of a family tree easy, simple and fun. No longer. Geni.com put together this little puppy just right, and…
