Web Dev
Mockingbird doesn’t want casual users
This morning a friend forwarded me this email from Mockingbird. Dear Mockingbird customers, Mockingbird’s taking flight We’re excited to announce that Mockingbird will launch on August 15, 2010 — with multi-user collaboration! Details on the paid plans: Active Projects Users Price/month Personal 2 Unlimited $9 Team 10 Unlimited $20 Pro 25 Unlimited $40 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited [...]
A good reason to dump OpenDNS
Like me, you’ve probably read all sorts of great things about the public DNS service OpenDNS, but one thing you should find out for yourself is how it will impact the speed of your web browsing. After using OpenDNS name servers for months at work I started to notice that page load times at home (on a [...]
WordCamp PDX ’09 Day 1 – What I came away with
I just attended WordCamp Portland ’09 Day 1 (Sat, Sept. 19 2009) an this is what I came away with… Session: Jason Grigsby – Speed Up WordPress. Make Readers Happy and Your Site Green Setting expires headers really does matter in the battle for page loading speed/efficiency. SpriteMe makes CSS sprite implementation so easy there’s [...]
Thanks to TweetPhoto.com Everyone Knows Im a Pervert
So tweetphoto.com plans to dominate the twitter photo upload market by copying twitpic.com and adding very little to set it apart… except for the built-in tracking that reveals on the front page what I really think about day and night…
Fix Slow Scrolling in jEdit
So far jEdit is proving to be a great editor (FTP/SFTP support is great) but after tweaking it to my liking (BufferTabs plugin, fonts, etc.) I noticed that scrolling the main text area had become very slow. I didn’t want to just blame Java so I looked it up and found the cause.
Warning: FileZilla FTP Passwords now Stored in Plaintext
I feel that this should be brought to the attention of FileZilla users out there even though it may be a huge concern. (Lots of apps do this but potentially giving up FTP access info to a bunch of servers you are responsible for is something to be avoided). Jump to the Important Stuff
Echo PHP Nested Array Contents + Keys
I’ve always had some trouble with the syntax for accessing Nested Arrays and their Keys in PHP so I wanted to make note of this.
MySQL: Convert all Values in Column to Upper Case
Recently using osCommerce I had a customer who wished to have all the products’ names in uppercase but they had been entered in mixed case. After having some trouble finding a simple answer through Google, I pieced together this simple query that can also be adapted to other situations. The below is a MySQL query [...]
