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Yay…. gotta love delays at the airport! Woohoo!

Joanna and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays! I’ve included a funny little christmas video about a guy with WAY to much time on his hands:

I saw a great cartoon today on xkcd. Replace Perl with PHP, and that is how I feel about my public education. Granted, there were several teachers that had a large impact on my professional life, but over all my self-education has had a much bigger impact than my overall public education. Also, if you’re …

I’m not an expert at all with the linux shell. I know how to run a LAMP stack, but that is about it. Every blue moon I need to use a command that I used last blue moon, but forgot how. This list will now be my list to write down the cool “commands” I …

I usually don’t post frequently about work projects, especially one after another. I apologize to the aggregation blogs I’m subscribed to, please don’t think I’m trying to “pimp” my clients websites. However, today we had our iPhone App approved for the App Store in . This app integrates with our Dating DNA website so people …

Since we’re still pending in the Apple iPhone App Store for review, we wanted a new fresh image for the Dating DNA website front page. Kevin, the CEO, threw together a simplified new front page. He is pretty good with Photoshop, and knows how to slice up a layout for image and put it into …

Okay, I order a pizza from Pizza Hut online at 11:44 AM. I was expecting it to take, you know, 30 to 45 minutes. One hour tops. After an hour waiting, I check the email to make sure that I got the conformation correct. In the email, this is what I see: Hey, I would …

Here is a little usability lesson for everyone: vertical text can be very hard to read, especially when it is rotated. Here is a video taken of TGI Friday’s website. Hopefully this can be a lesson for web developers about how frustrating these kinds of techniques can be for users.

All I can say is I love the new version of WordPress. It makes my life so much easier! I love the new control panel, and it just works. I didn’t have a single problem navigating the new layout. It is fantastic.

Why, oh why, are website classes so extremely out of date in universities, colleges, and schools? I just spent the last few hours helping my wife with her Information Systems class. I’ve had to do similar assignments for technology classes, yet the things they are teaching are extremely out of date and a waste of …