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I’ve decided to give this a try and make a video on Installing & Running XAMPP, the easy to instal web stack for developing websites on your own computer. This video is for beginners who need help walking through the installation of XAMPP. View Video Tutorial – Installing XAMPP If you have any questions or …

I’ve come up with a simple solution for handling user uploaded content when trying to work in a local development environment. I’ve installed XAMPP on my windows machine and at the beginning of every week I take a database snapshot and update my local database. I had a pretty smooth system going with one problem: …

Since my wife and I got our new iPhones, I’ve been playing around with a way unify our calendars. When we first got married we started to use Google Calendar. We have three calendars: mine, hers, and ours. Its great for staying organized, especially when we’re trying to organize two lives. It worked well for …

Found this blog post with a handful of Plesk tricks while searching for a different problem. Posting it here to remember it.

Alright, the sound of dying Apple fanboys are crying through out the internet at the posting of this entry, but there are two things I can’t stand about the Mac: Command & Control are switched – this is a major pain, especially when using a KVM to switch between a Windows, Mac, and Linux machine. …

Comcast is supposed to come tomorrow to hook up my house, but until then I’ve been mooching of relatives’ WI-FI on my Mac Book Pro. … Of course the OS X elite call this change simple and easy, but I’d think it’d be easy to just have it work in the first place.

At work I needed a solution to give me a count of how many rows each table contained. I’ve always liked phpMyAdmin’s ability to list all the tables and show their size and row count. I’ve found it immensely helpful. However, I couldn’t find anything similar for SQL Server Manager Studio 2005. I found a …