I often have to do presentations or showcase a site or an application. I find taking pictures or showcasing the application can help many people get a sense of what I am talking about. I recently discovered a great tool to take a screenshot of your app or website using multiple devices. http://placeit.breezi.com/ has Mobile devices, tablets, pc’s and other great …
Update for 2023 The team at TopTal has revised and updated the web checklist – Here is the updated link https://www.toptal.com/developers/webdevchecklist Great Improvement: this is a great tool to prepare for a website or application launch. — I was reading some of my news feeds and came across this great site called http://webdevchecklist.com/. It is a creation of Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi …
I recently had an error show on a Magento site. The error showing was : Premature end of script headers: index.php After some searching I found that this is a common error with a few different solutions. In my case I logged into the server and looked at the apache error log. What I found was the error and also what …
I am a ThinkPad junkie (proof 1, 2). I currently have 3 active thinkpads in our home. My primary laptop T410, My wife’s T410, and our home server (everything PC) t61p. Today I just purchased another thinkpad to add to the collection. I got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Touch. This is the first touch laptop I have purchased. I have had …
I recently went on a trip to San Francisco for the Microsoft Build Conference. First and foremost the conference was excellent. You can say what you want about Microsoft, but they are making both hardware and great software. Packing for a trip like Build, where everyone got a Surface Pro and another tablet, I had to make sure to be ready …
I just setup our home phone to have free calling and kept our existing number. The new setup I am using incorporates Google voice and an obitalk Obi110 ($40) device. I have been a VOIP user at our house for the last 7 years. I started with Vonage and have switched to a few providers ever since. The most recent Voipo …
I hate printers. They have caused me so much headache over the years. Printers bother me from the standpoint that they don’t work when you need them, and most likely they are near or out of ink when they do work. In the past few years, I have had the theory of purchasing the lower to mid level printer and ink …
I recently upgraded my helmet to a more fully bodied helmet for commuting to work. I have a Giro Road helmet that really allows for air flow and the ability to cool your head. But for commuting to work and being packed away in my desk it was not all that durable. I decided to go with a more urban looking …
I often ssh into my home linux server or my remote Machines. Recently I could not remember what flavor (version) of ubuntu I was running. Since I don’t use the UI on the server I only had the command line to use. I quickly found a way to show what version you are running. I thought it was interesting that there …
I have been using ubuntu for a while. In fact, the last Linux box I had prior was Fedora 10. My current primary linux box is running Ubuntu 10.4 (a bit outdated). I recently upgraded to 12 and found some performance issues on my dual core Dell Box. The majority of my development Virtual Box images are Mint Linux , I …
I have been waiting for a while for a good openvpn client to be available for the iPad or iPhone with out JailBreaking. A few months back openvpn released an app for the iPad and iPhone. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/openvpn-connect/id590379981 Head on over and download if you are a pfsense user. I recommend anyone who is using public / unsecured wifi to use VPN. …
I just spent the last hour troubleshooting an issue with an upgrade. It had to do with upgrading a website to a new version using .net 4 on an iis 6 (server 2003) machine. I was consistently getting a 404 error when I switched to using the 4.0 framework I had reapplied 4.0 framework to iis using aspnet_regiis. Even created a …
Google recently announced that it is going to turn off Google reader. Reader.google.com I can remember when it launched in 2005 and I was amazed that I could take all these RSS feeds (web news) and put them in one place. It was not sexy or even good looking, but it allowed me to consume a lot of great info fast. …
I like the usability of Microsoft SQL especially the SQL Express versions. The only few limitations I have ran into have been some of the enterprise feature and things like backup scripts. There is a great Codeplex package that can help http://expressmaint.codeplex.com/ I have used a version of expressmaint for long time. The package from code plex also includes a windows2008 …
In the last few years I have found it hard to find new music. I don’t listen to much radio these days, in the Van it is WCSG 91.3 at all times (the kids love that). I my car I find that I listen to talk radio, either ESPN radio or something like Glenn Beck. So I often don’t hear new …