Technology on Justin Carmony

Talk: DDM's Journey into Big Data with BigQuery with KSL and Deseret News - Salt Lake City GCP Meetup

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:00:48 +0000

I gave this presentation at the Salt Lake City Google Cloud Platform Meetup we hosted at Deseret Digital Media.

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/ddms-journey-into-big-data-with-bigquery-with-ksl-and-deseret-news

We will hear from Justin Carmony, the Sr. Director of Engineering, Analytics at Deseret Digital Media.

This talk is part use-case and part intro into BigQuery.

Three years ago Deseret Digital Media had a serious problem: it had a lot of data in Google Analytics and Google Ad Manager (then called DFP), but couldn’t run the in-depth analysis needed because of limitations with their reporting tools. They had crucial questions they couldn’t answer, so they did what everyone else was doing: just guessing and hoping for the best.

Tech Interviews & Softball Questions

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:16:19 +0000

While it seems every few months the topic of the interview process goes around the community, and I think the general consensus is most of the time it is ineffective. At DDM, there has been a lot of thought put into our interview process, and so over the next few weeks I hope to share some ideas we’ve had.

The Status-Quo: Grill the Candidate

Traditionally, when you think of interview questions, you think of hard questions to “weed out the weak” and then you’ll find the best. However, I think this only leads to finding people who interview really well, which isn’t their job as a developer. I know many excellent developers who are poor at interviewing but are great at their profession.

Why You Should Attend a Tech Conference

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:37:33 +0000

Ever since 2006 I had always wanted to go to a technology conference. I’d see titles of talks for ZendCon and think “Wow, that would be cool to learn about!” In 2009, I finally went to the Utah Open Source Conference (now called OpenWest), and I was blown away with all the stuff to learn. Then, in 2011, I shelled out my own money and flew to Chicago for PHP Tek, and it cost me around $3,000 after conference ticket, flights, hotel, & other expenses while at Chicago.

Ubuntu 12.04, PHP 5.4, Apache2, and ppa:ondrej/php5

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 02:06:49 +0000

Okay, wow, what a doozy. I guess this is a lesson in why you want to be careful of the PPAs you use on your Ubuntu servers.

Summary

The very popular ppa:ondrej/php5, a Personal Package Archive for Ubuntu 12.04, upgraded from PHP 5.4 to PHP 5.5. This would require a newer version of Apache (v 2.4). If you upgraded Apache from 2.2 to 2.4, you would likely run into apache configuration issues.

Favorite IT Crowd Episode: The Internet

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:27:01 +0000

I posted this back in 2009, but that video on YouTube is no longer working. So I figure I’d repost it since it is such a funny episode. The IT Crowd was one of my favorite TV shows. It’s about two guys from IT Support, and their manager who doesn’t know anything about IT.

Then, later in the show, here are the results of their little prank:

First Serious Attempts with PHPUnit, Composer, and the Omniture API

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:12:46 +0000

At work we use Omniture for our web analytics, and for a long time I’ve wanted query our Omniture Data to run some internal reports. I discovered that Omniture has a restful reporting api, and after using it for a little bit I decided it would be nice to write a wrapper library for it.

Since I had recently taken the PHP Testing Bootcamp from Chris Hartjes, I decided I wanted write it using Test Driven Development and really get my feet wet. I also decided I wanted to make the library compatible with Composer. After the weekend was over, I had an almost finished library that just requires some more work to be done, but I learned a great deal that I thought I’d share.

Mobile Devices: What A Difference 8 Years Made

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:32:10 +0000

I saw this picture and it really drove home the idea that mobile devices have become a major part of our lives. Here are two photos: one from 8 years ago when Pope Benedict XVI was introduced at St Peter’s Square, and one of just the other day when Pope Francis I was introduced. Its startling the one single contrast. Its amazing how technology can be a part of our lives.

IRC Bouncing with ZNC

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:33:08 +0000

Before when I worked from home, keeping a continuous connection to IRC wasn’t that big of a challenge. I was always on a great connection that I controlled. However, since I started my new job, I’ve been struggling for the last 10 months or so to stay as connected on IRC as I had in the past.

See, half the time my laptop is connected to our network through a wired connection when I’m working at my desk. It is extremely fast, and I have all of the access I need to our internal production networks. However, when I go to meetings (which can be a lot), I switch over to the wireless. For whatever reason, the ports to Freenode’s IRC channel are blocked, so I can’t access it. Then switching back and forth every day causes me to connect, drop, etc. Also, when I commute I don’t have my laptop open and connected to the internet.

A Different Kind of Tech Company: Families First

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:33:42 +0000

I’ve been lucky to work for several successful startups. Granted, they weren’t Facebook or Twitter, but almost all of them turned around good profits and/or were bought. I’ll admit, working at a startup is, well, a lot of work. There are articles written about long hours and hard work. Even articles about telling people to quit whining about the hours.

Now I really appreciate my opportunity to work with the companies I did. I remember working long hours, even 80+ hour weeks during crunch time. I remember sleeping 3-4 hours a night and working pretty much every waking moment. This culture is pretty pervasive in the tech industry, and working 40 hours a week for many companies just isn’t enough. Even outside of a company, there is a feeling of pressure for programmers to spend most of their free time working on their skills.

Tracking Your Data with StatsD, Graphite, and Graphene

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:04:23 +0000

Update: So I spelt ~~Neil~~ Neal’s name wrong. Sorry Neal! I also added some other links to the bottom that he mentioned to me.

Its been a little over 48 hours, and StatsD, Graphite, and Graphene have already paid off major dividends. While speaking at Tek12, Neal Anders was giving a talk on Graphite which I wanted to attend, but I was speaking at the same time I was speaking on Redis so I couldn’t. Then, a week or so after the conference, someone posted a link about StatsD on twitter (I can’t remember who), so I started poking around, loved what I saw, and within an hour I had it running on a server for Dating DNA friday night (I still do some contract work for them to help keep their infrastructure running well). I quickly added about a dozen metrics to track, and went to bed.

Video: Look At Your Data - John Rauser - Velocity 2011

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:36:25 +0000

Last year I saw some videos from Velocity 2011 that were really enlightening, and today I wanted to re-watch one of them. Of course, I hadn’t bookmarked them, or remembered which conference they were from. So after some searching and remembering, I found the video. “Look at Your Data” by John Rauser. It is an excellent video and understanding your performance data and how to get more from it. I’ve embedded it below, but I would encourage everyone to checkout all the videos they posted from Velocity 2011, its a bunch of great stuff.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:43:06 +0000

A few weeks back I had the opportunity to be on the Voices of the Elephpant podcast to talk about Redis and the Utah Open Source Community with Cal Evans. You can listen to the episode on the VotE website.

Cal had sent me the questions before hand, and so I had jotted down a few things to mention during them. However, when we got to talking about the Utah Open Source Community, I forgot to mention one of the things I had written down to say, and that is this: I would not be where I am in my career, and would not have this great FOSS community in Utah, if it where not for the Shoulders of the Utah FOSS Giants that I stand on. (Standing on the Shoulders of Giants)

Debugging Nginx Configuration Trick

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:24:49 +0000

Today I had an issue where I was trying to debug a problem with an nginx configuration, I came up with a simple trick. One of the hardest parts of nginx configurations, especially with rewrites, is you might not know which “location” directive is not working as expected.

In PHP, sometimes you would just add something like this:

echo "I'm here!";
exit();

However, in Nginx configuration files, it isn’t as easy…

… or is it?

PHP Workers with Redis & Solo

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:20:10 +0000

I’ve come across an awesome combination of tools for managing PHP Workers, and thought I’d share.

Why Workers?

Sometimes there are situations when you want to parallel process things. Other times you might have a list of tasks to accomplish, and you don’t want to make the user wait after pressing a button. This is where “Workers” can come in. They are independent scripts that run along side of your application, performing tasks, or “jobs.”

Dark Patterns - Deceiving Your Users

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:25:55 +0000

I remember when I was first getting into making websites in 1999, there was a website that I loved: Web Pages That Suck. It was a website dedicated to showing bad examples of web design. It was kind of funny, and I remember learning a few things not to do. Though it isn’t as relevant today, it amazes me they still find websites that are doing the same terrible things that they were doing back in the 90’s.

Setting Up Nginx & PHP-FPM on Ubuntu 10.04

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:50:59 +0000

This is another wonderful setup that I’ve found myself using rather than the traditional Apache & mod_php setup.

What is Nginx?

Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is a fast, powerful, lightweight web server. I won’t go into the theory under-the-hood, but it’s focus is high concurrency with low memory usage. So while Apache is more robust in supporting many different features, nginx focuses on handling the important features very quickly. I still use Apache internally for our SVN & Trac web server. Heck, even at this time I’m using Apache to host this blog. However, Dating DNA, Clipish, CEVO, Alienware Arena, and some other high traffic sites/apis use nginx.

Setting Up Percona Server 5.5 on Ubuntu 10.04

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:43:25 +0000

I’m deploying some new servers today, and I realized I hadn’t documented my steps on my blog. So here are a few posts detailing my setup process.

What is Percona Server?

Percona Server is a fork of MySQL Server. So what does that mean? For the past few years, MySQL has had some “interesting” developments from the business stand point. Being bought by Sun, which was then sold to Oracle, and a lot of “drama” surrounding all of that. In turn, what seems to have happened is MySQL’s development stalled or slowed down as it took a back seat to the legal sides of things.

Preparing a VMWare Ubuntu Guest OS

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:11:09 +0000

I forget these steps all the time, so I figured I should record them here.

A lot of times VMWare will auto-install the VMWare tools for you when you first setup your VM. However, many times after setting it up I’ll do updates, and updates to the kernel will be applied, knocking out the VMWare Tools changes. These tools are used for things like file sharing between the guest and host.

Working with Middle-Scale Websites

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:02:40 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this idea for awhile, and I thought I would put a name to the thought. I brought up this idea while I was giving my “Real Life Scaling” presentation at the Utah Open Source Conference in 2009. Here is the problem I think most individuals in the web development face:

Hopefully at some point, your website gets a lot of traffic. Yay, you’ve reached your goal of getting good traffic, but it is soon followed by issues with performance and load. I like to call these the growing pains of a website. So as a web developer, I suddenly have the epiphany of “Hey, I need to scale my website!” What follows next is the biggest mistake a web developer can make:

MySQL, Redis, and a Billion Rows - A Love Story

Mon, 23 May 2011 15:20:35 +0000

This last week we pushed live a very large architecture change for Dating DNA. For those who know me, and have heard me talk about the Dating DNA Scoring System, they know how big of a problem we faced. For those who don’t know, let me give some background:

The Problem

With Dating DNA, our goal was to display a compatibility score with every other user. This score is generated by taking two sets of answers to our 20 page survey, and running it through our algorithm. While it is super convenient for our users, this poses a problem. We wanted not only for people to be able to visit a profile and see a score, which is easy to generate a score on demand. We wanted our users to be able to browse other profiles sorted by their score with them. This requires us to pre-generate and store these scores, and then later query them.

Restoring Large MySQL Dump - 900 Million Rows

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:05:12 +0000

This last weekend I had a fun opportunity of restoring roughly 912 Million Rows to a database. 902 Million belonged to one single table (902,966,645 rows, to be exact). To give an idea of growth, the last time I blogged about this database we had about 40 million rows. This giant table, the “Scores” table, is has a very small schema: two ints, a tiny int, and a DECIMAL(5,2).

Problem

Our current backup system uses mysqldump. It dumps a 25 GB sql dump file, which compresses to about 2.5GB using gzip. The last time we needed to restore a backup it was only about 9GB, and it took several hours.

Sending Email from non-email Ubuntu Server

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:22:11 +0000

I have a couple of scripts that use the linux “mail” command to send results of cron jobs, backups, and such. The problem is I don’t want to setup more overhead than I need, nor do I want to setup non-secure services. So after asking the guys on the #uphpu channel, they recommended postfix. So for a Ubuntu 10.04 server, just run the following commands:

aptitude install postfix #when prompted, select Internet Site aptitude install mailutils

RESTful Web Services & Nirvana

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:21:10 +0000

I’ve been hearing, reading, and talking a lot REST, RESTful Web Services, how to implement them, and even how to explain to your wife about it. Then I see or read presentations about what is and what is not RESTful Web Services. I’ve created and consumed quite a few web services, so while I’m not a leading expert in the field, I have a lot of experience with them. So instead of explaining over and over again to different people my thoughts on the subject, I’m writing about them. For those who have a short attention span, I’ll sum up my feelings of the subject in one sentence for you, and then explain in detail for those interested.

Creating Chatroom / Walls with Redis & PHP

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:15:16 +0000

Preface: This is not a step-by-step tutorial, but more of an outline on what I did. Also, I wrote this really quickly before heading off to dinner, so if there are parts that are unclear, or you have questions about, please leave a comment!

This last week has been a roller coaster for us at Dating DNA. We had an excellent holiday season, but with mass volume of new sign ups our servers started to slow down. Severely. Something you never want to have happen. So over this last week I’ve worked about 80 hours (though I’m a salary employee, woohoo… :P) and implemented a lot of new performance boots, and I have about four or five blog posts worth of discoveries I need to write. So before I forget them, I’m going to write them.

Using Cloud Files w/ CDN for Clipish Library

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:19:40 +0000

Over the last two days we’ve moved our Clipish Library from serving the files locally on our web server to Rackspace’s Cloud Files service. It is similar to Amazon S3, however since we were already using Rackspace Cloud Servers, we thought it would be easier to just keep it all under the same roof. The actual changes in code for using Cloud Files only took about 2 hours, but I had to write a script to loop through our entire library and populate Cloud Files with our current library. What is great is in the future when we add items, our code will automatically add files to Cloud Files via their API. Here is our network graph after switching (Item #3):

Server Monitoring with Wormly

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:06:57 +0000

I know I’ve been behind in my posts, so I quickly wanted to catch up with a few I’ve been meaning to post. The first is my recommendation for a service called Wormly. Now, I’ve tried to run my own Nagios servers and such, and they work, but here is why I like Wormly.

First, is simple and easy to use. The interface is great, and covers all the basics.
Second, downtime and server health monitoring in one package. I’ve always thought these two should go together, but it wasn’t that easy to do on my own with the tools I had. With Wormly, its super easy to set up. You just install a small one-file PHP script.
Third, its cost effective. If you are monitoring hundreds of servers, you would probably want to roll your own to integrate it with your own deployment systems. However, if you have just a handful, or even just a few dozen, it is very cost effective.

The bottom line is there is no reason not to have a server monitoring tool in place, and Wormly has been a great tool. We’ve used it to monitor Dating DNA’s and Clipish’s servers for several months, and it is worth every penny. I highly recommend it.

UTOSC - Day One

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:16:36 +0000

Tomorrow is the starting day at the Utah Open Source Conference (http://www.utosc.com/) , and while I’m down here attending, I have a ton of work I need to get done for my day job. Hopefully, however, I’ll be able to sneak into a presentation or two while conversion scripts run, moving 3 million internal user messages for Dating DNA to a new table structure that is much more efficient and scalable.

Sharing Sessions Across Multiple Servers With Memcache

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:52:15 +0000

These last few days have been full of quickly implementing things I’ve only read about, but hadn’t done for myself.

One situation was looking at splitting web traffic across multiple servers. In our case, we had only 2% of our website that would spike and increase our load by %1000 percent (I’m not joking) for a short period of time. So instead of doing traditional load balancing, we opted for routing specific functions to a custom subdomain that would run on another server. That way if the thousands of crazy video game players (you know who you are), slam the servers trying to get a cool skin for their online avatar, it would only take down that one section.

Setting up SSH Key Authentication Between Servers

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:52:05 +0000

I always forget how to do this, so I have to look it up each time. This will make it easier the next time. It is so simple, just I always forget.

First, I need to generate my ssh pub and private keys on the host server: ssh-keygen

Second, I need to copy the pub key to the remote server: ssh-copy-id -i id_rsa.pub user@server.local

Then, that it! Now that I wrote it down, I won’t forget it… I hope.

Setting up Nagios for Servers

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:17:20 +0000

Ok, so I need to confess, I haven’t been a good blogger. I’ve gone two months without writing a post, which is broke a 2 year streak. But, I’m going to post date these posts, since I can.

How I’ve gone this long without setting up Nagios to monitor servers is beyond me. However, I was tired of my clients and so finding out a server was offline before me. So I threw up a 256MB virtual server on Slicehost, since I don’t have any servers with them at the moment, in case a data center went offline.

VirtualBox Networking Setup

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:32:43 +0000

Every time I go to set up VirtualBox and several VMs I always forget how I setup the networking for them. Once again, I went through the pain of trying to figure it all out, so I might as well document it for future use.

The Problem

When creating virtual machines, especially virtual linux servers, I want them to be able to do the following things:

Connect to the Internet
Connect over SSH from my Host Machine to the Guest Machine
Have the servers connect to each other on a private internal network

Out of the box, a VM is configured for #1, however it cannot do #2 and #3. There are some solutions that do some archaic port forwarding by issuing special commands from the Terminal. This is just painful, and if you just want one port to work, that’s manageable, but what if you want ssh, ftp, myql, http, https, etc? Any on multiple VMs? What a nightmare! What is painful is when googling for a solution, almost every “answer” is this crazy port forwarding method. There is a much cleaner, better way!

The Cloud to Bare Metal

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:02:22 +0000

A Little Background

It was the summer of 2008 when I attended the LT Pact conference that I first drank the “Cloud Kool-Aid.” As you can see from my notes, I was pretty excited about this whole concept. Excited enough, one client of mine signed up for Layered Tech’s grid layer (which is what they were demoing at the conference).

One interesting thing I heard at the LT Pact conference was one of their keynotes was as IT Researcher for Gartner. He outlined what phases the current industry would go through with “cloud computing”:

PHP HipHop – What It Means

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:32:04 +0000

There has been a lot of speculation about PHP, Facebook, and a big announcement. Over the last few weeks, several predominate PHP community members were invited to the Facebook offices to check something out. Facebook asked the PHP members, as Ben Ramsey put it, to “make a gentleman’s agreement that I wouldn’t talk until FB is ready.”

Well, Facebook has made their announcement, and it is called HipHop. Here is an excerpt:

Google Apps Dropping IE 6

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:16:59 +0000

This morning I found this email in my inbox. I use Google Apps to host my email and calendars, which works really slick and is fabulous. Here is the email:

Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

My 2009 Technology Recap

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:55:31 +0000

Its been two years now that I’ve been a more or less “serious blogger.” I had using the term blogger, since when people hear about blogs, they think of people either detailing their entire lives, or pumping some angel. For me, blogging has just been a way to share information with people I know locally, and those I don’t even know who find my blog via searching. I’ve had a few spurts where I blogged quite frequently, but for the most part it was just here and there.

Awesome Animated XKCD

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:07:17 +0000

This comic is awesome. If you haven’t heard of xkcd then you are missing out. It is tied with another comic for my favorite comic on the internet. They did a funny comic on making a spoof of the Discovery Channel commercials. Now someone has made an animated version of the xkcd comic, and it is just awesome. Enjoy

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7151435&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.

Here is the original comic:

Presentation: Real Life Scaling

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:39:44 +0000

Here are my slides for the presentation that I gave at the Utah Open Source Conference on Friday. It was an awesome conference, and I am glad that I was able to be involved.

Real Life Scaling: A Tale of Two Websites http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=reallifescaling-ataleoftwowebsites-small-091010143045-phpapp02&stripped_title=real-life-scaling-a-tale-of-two-websites

View more presentations from Justin Carmony.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them below.

My New External Hard Drive: Blacx + 1TB Drive

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:03:10 +0000

These last few weeks I’ve been dealing with larger and larger sets of data that I would need to download to my PC to work on. When working with multiple copies of data that are 10-20 GBs each, it started to fill up my two HDDs very quickly. I decided I need to go buy a new hard drive to give me plenty of room. The question was “internal” or “external” and how big.

My iPhone Has Hindered My Email

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:17:40 +0000

What!? What is this that I speak of? My very favorite feature of the iPhone has actually hindered it?! How can this be? Its really straight forward actually. Before my iPhone, when I checked my email I was at a computer and typically would respond to emails immediately. Now, however, I read most of my emails first on my phone. The problem is that sometimes I would forget about an email when I finally arrived at a computer, and some things have fallen in the cracks. Nothing catastrophic, but I feel bad when I get a second email asking “Hey, um, did you get my first email?” The iPhone has been pretty disruptive in my typical email habits, and so I’ve been trying to figure out how to manage it. I actually love it because it keeps me more aware throughout the day. I just can’t forget to respond to certain emails.

Article: 5 Things Your Clients Should Know

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:45:13 +0000

I read an interesting article on teaching your clients about web design. It brings up some great points on helping your client understanding their role in their website’s development. While its not in inclusive list, it brings up some good points. I’ll share a few quotes:

This is not a criticism of clients, however. There is so little information that clearly defines their role. Sure, there is no shortage of material on usability, accessibility, online marketing and copywriting, but who has the time to read all of it?

So You Want To Be A Web Developer?

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:54:35 +0000

This last week I’ve been talking with my brother Brack, who to say the least, absolutely abhors his job. Well, maybe abhor is a little strong, but he is extremely frustrated and unsatisfied. He works at a air force base in the human resource department and he basically helps provide statistical data for departments on who, what, and where to hire new help. Since he is a “wiz” at solving problems, computers, and making this more efficient, he has streamlined his work process with several nifty Excel spreadsheets and Java programs. He can now take a weeks worth of work and do it in one morning.

Google Wave Jargon

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:55:57 +0000

I got my new Google Wave Demo Account. It is very, very alpha, but the concept is pretty awesome. I saw a funny “wave” and thought I would share.

Here is a list of Evolving Google Wave Terminology:

Sea Sick When a wave is way too busy with activity, causing dizziness

Wavejacking When you post a wave and someone hijacks the contents to where it no longer resembles the original idea

Steamlined Web Development Presentation Video

Wed, 27 May 2009 14:41:26 +0000

Alright, it looks like the Victor at UPHPU has gotten my presentation up on Steamlining your web development. Since it was the first night Victor had tried to capture video & audio to mesh them together, the video on the presentation is a little bit further ahead than the audio. However, I think the presentation went quite well. You can view all the UPHPU meeting videos here. Here is the presentation I gave:

Memcached: Simple, Effective, and Powerful

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:12:01 +0000

Realizing once again I haven’t written a blog post for quite some time, I thought I would just write a few smaller posts on things I’ve learned these last few months. Hopefully I can get back into the habit of blogging regularly again.

This last month I finally broke down and learned how to use memcached. While I have known about memcached for a very long time, I just never got around to using it. While I heard it was beyond easy to implement, I still assumed it would take a few days to get the hang of it and figure out its quirks. However, when the forces of high load on a webserver and the file-based caching system that I have previously used were found to be too I/O intensive, I had no choice but to take the plunge.

Data Backups - There Are No Excuses

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:04:48 +0000

Today I just had the terrible experience of having a database lose data, need to restore, only to not have a recent backup. If you haven’t had this experience before, please, take this serious. My wife was home for lunch as it happened, and she watched as the blood drained from my face. It only took a few seconds for the loss to happen, and immediately I knew exactly what the repercussions where. The immediate second thought that passes through your brain is “Where are my backups?” That is when I realized I didn’t have my nightly backups set up on this server. I quickly checked the file date on the last known backup I had.

Aptana Studio – PHP IDE Alternative to PDT, Zend Studio

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:09:53 +0000

The other day I ran into another option as an IDE for PHP. If you’ve been following my blog, I’ve been a big user of Eclipse PDT (http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/) and Zend Studio (http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/). There is a third one to add to the list, Aptana Studio. It is built on-top of the Eclipse framework, like PDT and Zend Studio. It has several extensions: Python, Rails, PHP, and others. If you’ve read my post on Consumer Linux, I talk a lot about “Power & Polish.” Here is my definition:

Software Development With Clients In Mind

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:05:56 +0000

Why does it seem so hard to deliver quality products to clients? Sometimes it feels like clientseither don’t appreciate quality, or they have their priorities all mixed up. To help us understand, here is a wonderful sketch from Monty Python called “The Architect’s Sketch.”

I’ve been searching for awhile for a good example for this subject, and when I saw this sketch, I knew this would be perfect. It outlines two large problems with developing solutions for clients: quality & suitability.

WhiteHouse.gov YouTube Channel Hacked?

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:08:05 +0000

I’m not sure exactly what this is, but its strange. I wanted to add the whitehouse YouTube channel’s RSS feed to my Google Reader. I might not have voted for Obama, but I think he is using new technologies to communicate with people in a very good way. I’m excited for the precedence that he is setting in the government, and for future leaders, on how to leverage the Internet, video streaming, etc.

My Honest Attempt With Linux Desktop

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:07:00 +0000

After the last uphpu meeting a few of us went to Applebees like always. We were talking about a lot of stuff and one of the big subjects was Linux Desktop. Kevin Carter, the presenter, was sporting off Kubuntu with the new KDE 4.2. This year I’ve made a goal to improve my Linux skills and I thought if I switched to using Linux as my main work enviroment. So Sunday night I started to try to install Kubuntu 8.10. I’m sorry to say, but after 24 hours, I wasn’t able to stick with it.

Consumer Linux - When & How

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:15:28 +0000

I’ve been reading several responses about the news story of a girl who “dropped out of school” because of Ubuntu. I’ve read several responses, including Aaron Toponce’s response, and it got me thinking about a topic that has been on my mind for awhile.

You can read the story yourself and the follow-up backlash from the Ubuntu Community. I was extremely sad, but not at all surprised, of the backlash that this woman got. I’m sure the negative response is from a relatively small percent of the community that is just extremely loud. I also think the title of the story is a little misleading and that it can be taken as bias. However, the root of the problem lies in this: a woman thought she was buying a consumer product, when in fact, it wasn’t.

Characteristics of Good PHP Code

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:20:02 +0000

At the time I am sitting in the Las Vegas airport waiting for a very delayed layover flight to San Diego. Wonderful weather causing all sorts of headaches. So I’ve decided to make the best of my time by writing the introductory article to a series of PHP articles. I’ve had this idea for a while, and now I’m going to finally sit down and write it.

A Different Type of Article

HTML Education in Universities

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:24:46 +0000

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 time. Why? After taking these classes, to actually use HTML, I would have to unlearn 80% of what they taught, and re-learn from scratch.

100th Blog Entry - First Year of Real Blogging

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:03:48 +0000

This is my 100th entry into my blog, and 25 days before my first year mark for writing on my blog. It’s been a great experience, and I’m starting to see some real traffic. I’ve found that publishing meaningful content, whether a simple bug fix, or a full blown tutorial, can be very satisfying. Seeing the handful of thankful comments has been great, and even the contentious comments have been fun.

Streamlined Web Development: In-Depth

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:26:44 +0000

Note: This is a work in progress. I will finish the rest after the presentation. I just wanted to publish the post to link to. If you have any questions, please post them below I will try to answer them as fast as I can. I probably won’t have time to finish this until Sunday, due to several critical projects that are due ASAP.

This in the “In-Depth” part of my presentation on “Streamling Web Development with SVN & Trac.” I can’t possibly cover all the aspects of this topic. I like to post a “in-depth” article right after my presentation with links, tutorials, and all my resources used for the presentation. This allows for me to spend more time on questions & answers. I’d appreciate any feedback on the presentation, and if you have any questions feel free to ask. This article is an extension to the presentation, so I suggest listening to the presentation first if it seems like there are any pieces missing.

Is Apple Blinded by Style?

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:58:39 +0000

I have to add my voice to Jason D. O’Grady from ZDNet’s “The Apple Core” about the new MacBook & MacBook Pro. Jason complains:

The thing that bums me out the most about yesterday’s MacBook announcements is Apple’s move to all-glossy displays. I’ll make no bones about it – I loathe glossy displays – especially on a notebook computer.

Apple will spin it that blacks look darker and colors are more saturated, blah, blah, blah. It’s a load of garbage. How are we expected to read the screen when the glare is practically blinding? (Don’t even get me started on fingerprints).

Ubuntu Desktop Terminal - Su

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:30:08 +0000

This is just a quick reference for myself. When I want to “su to root” in Ubuntu’s terminal I need to do the follow:

sudo su [enter password]

WordPress Carrington Theme - I'm Impessed

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:43:04 +0000

I just read over at Matt Mullenweg’s blog about the annoucement of the Carrington Theme for WordPress. For those who don’t know, WordPress is a PHP/MySQL based blogging system and is the one I use for my blog. I’ve installed the Carrigton Theme and I really like it. Over the next few weeks I’ll be checking it out and playing around with it. I’ll keep everyone posted!

Update: I guess some people are having an issue downloading the Carrington theme, so I’ve uploaded it to download from my site. Hopefully it won’t kill my bandwidth, but I should be good.

PHP 6 Books - Did I Miss Something?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:46:30 +0000

Update 01-21-12: since I was contacted by the Author of one of these books, and a few years have gone by and I’m more familiar with the publishing industry, I was unfair to place blame on the author for the decision to market these books as PHP6. Authors have almost no say in how their books are marketed. Thus, the blame for these types of tactics, rest solely on the publisher.

Palin's Yahoo Account Gets Hacked

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:26:22 +0000

Today I opened my email and found a story about how Sarah Palin, the Republican VP Nominee, had her email account hacked. Here are some quotes:

On the heels of media reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was using a private Yahoo e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) to conduct Alaska state business, hackers have broken into the account and posted evidence of the hijack on Wikileaks.

An activist group calling itself ‘anonymous’ claimed responsibility for the compromise and released screenshots, photographs and the e-mail addresses of several people close to Palin, including her husband Todd and assistant Ivy Frye.

Blog WordPress Theme Experiment - Grunge Style

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:42:39 +0000

So I if you looked at my website within the last few hours or so you might have seen a very different theme. It was a grunge like style. My goal was to try and use PNGs for different layering and styles. Evenually I wanted the background to dynamically change depending on a post’s categories and tags. However, I ran into some obvious drawbacks.

Here is a screenshot of the design:

Is Google following Microsoft's footsteps?

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:32:01 +0000

With the announcement of their new web browser Google Chrome, is Google starting down the path of Microsoft? I thought I would jot down a few of my thoughts on the subject.

Google is the King of Search, hands down. While it is only #2 ranked website on Alexa, #1 being held by Yahoo, it is the #1 for searching the web and on-line advertising. Yahoo offers a much larger bredth and variety of products, such as games, music, etc. #3 is Google’s billion dollar purchase YouTube.com. Next comes in Microsoft’s Windows Live at the #4 spot.

Comcast Limit to 250GB a month for Residential

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:52:19 +0000

According to Slashdot:

Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit starting October 1. ‘This is the same system we have in place today,’ Comcast wrote in an amendment to its acceptable use policy. ‘The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted.’ The cable provider insisted that 250 GB is “an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. … As part of our pre-existing policy, we will continue to contact the top users of our high-speed Internet service and ask them to curb their usage,’ Comcast said Thursday. ‘If a customer uses more than 250 GB and is one of the top users of our service, he or she may be contacted by Comcast to notify them of excessive use,’ according to the AUP.

Two-Way Sync between Google Calendar, Windows, OS X, and iPhone

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:43:36 +0000

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 several weeks, except one thing…

We had to be on-line and on the browser to view our Google Calendars. Lot of the time when we needed to see our calendar we were with family or friends without computer access. Also, when I work I have twenty or so browser windows open, and it can be difficult to find my calendar in the mix. I also am biased towards desktop client applications when I’m using them every hour of the day. So I set out on my quest to find a way to sync across all the different mediums I use. Now that I think I’ve found my solution, I thought I would share my findings with the rest of the world.

Test post from iphone.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:20:24 +0000

I am testing my new iPhone app for wordpress. While I wouldn’t want to write an essay from this, it is pretty cool. What they really need is for a way to respond to comments on here. I’m sure it is currently in the works.

Funny iPhone Comic

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:48:34 +0000

I haven’t written in a few days, and I’ve been swamped with work, but I thought it’d make a quick post about Ctrl-Alt-Del’s ‘silly’ comic:

While you have failed entrepenuers saying how the obviously successful iPhone will fail, there is one truth to the iPhone: it can be very slippery without a case!

iPhone SDK 2.1 - Another NDA

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:24:20 +0000

Until Apple change’s their attitude and policies, they will never be a Microsoft, Sun, or other monolithic technology company. Why? Their NDA on the new iPhone SDK 2.1 hinders developers seriously. They are so tight lipped about everything and are such control freaks that they will never replace Microsoft. If someone asked me today if I could magically snap my fingers and have Apple replace Microsoft, I would say “hell no.” Using their Laptops and Phones is one thing. Developing blindly with nothing but half-baked documentation and a NDA shoved down my throat is another beast.

DRM vs. Users - The Good and The Bad

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:46:54 +0000

The other day I posted on my thoughts of Rhapsody and Yahoo Music. It seems like there has been a lot of talk about how Yahoo Music users are going to lose their music they purchased through Yahoo. I want clarify a few things:

First, Yahoo Music users can transfer their account to Rhapsody. I believe this also transfers their purchased music. Now, if your account has lapsed, I don’t know exactly how it works. I still think there are lots of Yahoo Music users will get the short end of the deal, and some lose all their purchased music. I know there are worse things in the world, but here are my thought on DRM.They

Yahoo vs. Rhapsody - Why Yahoo Lost

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:10:06 +0000

I’ve been a subscriber to Yahoo Music, first with their Radio, and then their Unlimited service since 2005. I’ve loved the ability to listen to a huge collection of music at my fingertips. Since 90% of my music listening takes place on my computer while working, I never really had to worry about taking my music on the road on being portable. I also love being able to listen to music legally without having to feel guilty about downloading music off the internet. I’m a very big supporter of keeping music legit.

Why Are Some Open Source Advocates Hypocrites?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:49:58 +0000

Edit: This article was intended to specifically address certain types of of open source advocates, as stated in the title. This article is not intended to label all open source advocates as hypocrites. See comments by the author below.

Today, and almost every day, I’ll read an article about a proprietary computer company (Microsoft, Apple, etc) and “open source” technologies and communities. Every time I read them I see a large percentage of “user participants” in comments, responses, etc. that make me cringe.

Web Development 10-Years Ago & Now

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:43:55 +0000

This week’s blogging challenge was our computer software now and then. Lorelle talked about the different versions of WordPress over time. I thought it was an interesting article.

10 Years Ago

I started web development back in 1997. My tools back then were:

Notepad - That right, the one and only. It was how most people did their websites back in the day. It hasn’t changed much over the years.
Adobe Photoshop v4 - The must have program for image editing:
Dreamweaver 1.0 - Thats right, I’ve been with dreamweaver since the beginning! (Sorry, I couldn’t find a screenshot)
ws_ftp95 - This old school FTP program was the bomb in my eyes since day 1. Boy have things come a long.

Technology wise I was serving up static HTML pages. When I had mastered Dreamweaver’s template system, I was able to run a website with 20+ pages not too bad. It was definitely interesting. Every time I made a change, it would go through and update every single page, and then I would upload every page to the server.

Alright, an iPhone App that is definitly going te cause horror stories: Friend Book

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:22:40 +0000

… Is it me or is this idea just bad:

http://lifehacker.com/398228/friend-book-to-beam-your-iphones-contact-data-with-a-shake

Here is an except about what Friend Book does:

The coolest feature without a doubt is the new “Handshake”: put two iPhones running Friend Book together, shake them up and down, and the personal contact information of the phones’ owners will be beamed through the net to the paired phones. Handshake doesn’t work through a device-to-device connection, but instead passes location data back to Tapulous’ servers - two shaking phones in the same location means it’s time to swap information.

AVG - The New Popular Anti-Virus

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:38:44 +0000

AVG, a popular anti-virus that I use, has a good free version. I guess it has become popular enough that I found a avgsafe.dll on a computer using HijackThis. The reason it suck out is that they didn’t have AVG installed. Was easy to remove and the computer was good to go.

Mac Keyboard Quirks - Making Mac more like Windows

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:16:00 +0000

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. It is just crazy!

Home & End - They don’t work like they should on every other OS. I’ve never really figured out exactly what they do on Mac, but on Windows they go to the beginning or end of a line.

My Computer Setup

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:04:50 +0000

I’ve recently subscribed to Lorelle’s blog who I met at the LT Pact. She is by all means a professional blogger and really know a lot of stuff. She is also kinda crazy, but in a good, passionate way. Just never, EVER misspell WordPress (its WordPress, not Wordpress) or Plugins (not Plug-ins).

Every week she has a blog challenge, and to make sure I keep up my blogging I thought this week’s challenge was appropriate for my blog. She challenged to blog about your computer setup, now and then. First lets talk about my setup back in the day.

Apple Needs to Stop Being Misleading - Viruses & Malware

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:09:00 +0000

The other day I was talking with my cousin and she asked how I liked my MacBook Pro. She told me all the cool things she had heard. A friend of hers said that with a Mac you don’t ever need to buy anything like “Norton” cause Macs don’t get viruses. She asked me if that was true and in reality it is a two part answer.

Here is the classic ad on Apple & viruses:

Why Palm Lost the Lead

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:00:38 +0000

I read an article today about Palm on Slashdot. Here is the summary:

Palm’s fourth quarter results came out a few days ago, and they were not pretty: Palm reported losses of 40 cents per share, for a quarterly loss of $43.4 million. It’s the fourth straight quarter of losses, and it’s clear that the company is not faring well in the rapidly evolving smartphone market. The Treo line is lagging after seven years, and while the Centro has done well, it’s not well enough to compete with the likes of the iPhone 3G and RIM’s surging BlackBerry line. New competition is on the horizon, with developers and manufacturers working on the Google Android platform and the recent news that Symbian is being open-sourced. What happened to Palm? What can the company do to effectively compete in the mobile market, and turn its fortunes around?

WhySecurity.org - A New Mini-Project

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:19:09 +0000

Yesterday while listening to the security panel’s discussion for LT Pact there seemed to be a common theme: end-users want security, but they don’t want to be inconvenienced or do anything to do something about it. It seemed like the only way a person learned about security was when it was too late, they had a serious problem, and serious losses were occurred. So I had an idea: why not have a visitor to a website take a quick questionnaire, just some simple questions to find out what type of user they are and at what risk they are at. After a few questions it would show stories of real experiences of people with similar situations and the devastating affects they had when being compromised.

LT Pact '08 - Overview of Experience

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:52:45 +0000

I just left the last session of the LT Pact ‘08 conference and it has been fun. I’ve learned a lot and there were a lot of common themes among the conference. I’ll briefly touch on the themes and over the next week or so I’ll be writing more in-depth on each one. Besides, I need to enjoy Las Vegas while I’m here and not just blog.

Virtualization & Cloud Computing

Virtualization is the future of server hosting. It won’t be optimal for all scenarios of course, but there are so many advantages to virtualization that they can’t be passed up:

LT PACT 2008 - Day 1

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:31:52 +0000

Whew, today was a good day. I took a lot of notes and over the next few days I’ll be blogging on the different topics. Hopefully you’ll enjoy.

How to tell what Linux OS you're running

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:01:23 +0000

I deal with many different servers and it is hard to keep track of which is running which Distro of linux. Here is the quick way to tell:

uname -a

uname –help

You can’t believe how hard it was to find that out.

Getting ready for LTPact 2008

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:35:01 +0000

Well, I’m doing my laundry and getting ready to leave tomorrow for LTPact 2008. I’m looking forward to hearing about new technologies in server hosting. They also have coming several speakers on blogging, including Matt Mullengweg, founder and creator of WordPress. Layered Technologies has been a fantastic sponsor for CEVO.

Why I like Twitter

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:33:09 +0000

Alright, I’m going to have to join the ranks of twitter users and say that I like twitter. I’m actually pretty shocked because I didn’t think I would enjoy keeping it up to date. However, its nice to use to keep tabs on my friends, co-workers, and even respected programmers in fields I study/work in.

The secret to twitter, I believe, is that it is very opt-in. You choose how much you want to do it. I was worried I would feel forced to keep it up-to-date, but it isn’t that hard. I only “tweet” semi-big things that I do, things that are interesting and someone might be interested in, but doesn’t warrant a blog post. This way I can help people find what I find on the net easily and without any hassle.

Why I love ecto

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:49:22 +0000

Ecto is a blogging program that I’ve come to love and use almost daily. It has taken the hassle out of using a web interface for writing to my blog. Here are several reason why I love to use it:

1. Images

I can quickly and easily take a screenshot, or drag and drop images into by blog posts without a single worry. Using Control-Command-Shift-3 I can take screenshots and paste them directly to my blog. Below is an image I took a screenshot of and pasted directly into ecto, completely removing any hassle.

OS X and Tabs - Skipping Drop Down Controls

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:33:15 +0000

This was driving me crazy for this last week. Since moving to my new house I’ve been without internet for a week. 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. This has forced me to use it for all of my work, including web development and graphics design. However, while tabbing through forms on websites, the tab would skip over drop down boxes. Why this is the default is beyond me. It is not user friendly at all. Fortunately I found through a website how to change it. 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.

iPhone 3G - My Personal Perspective

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:35:46 +0000

Well, after reading Kevin’s opinion about the new “iPhone 3G” I thought that I’d throw my two cents in:

The iPhone is getting a nice upgrade. 3G and GPS will be a great addition, as well as large price drop. However, I believe that the iPhone is not for everyone. Why? Just like laptops, people have different priorities than others. Kevin loves his MacBook Air for travel, but I prefer my MacBook Pro over the Air for traveling any day. Why? Two perspectives and goals. Both Kevin and I usually have to some work when we travel, but our work is greatly different. Kevin mainly needs his laptop for exchanging information, so using Email, Skype, etc. My work is heavily dependent on graphical work and programming. So I need the extra horse power.

Use Different Editor for Crontab

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:29:09 +0000

I really dislike vim and most servers I work on use vim for editing the crontab. So here is a quick little note for myself on how to change it after logging into the SSH on the server:

env EDITOR=nano crontab -e

A New Stage in Life: My MacBook Pro

Wed, 14 May 2008 06:14:01 +0000

Well, I’ve finally crossed the bridge I never thought I’d cross. My new laptop is a screaming new MacBook Pro. It is a 17" with the HD screen, 4 GB of ram, and a 7200 speed drive.

All I can say is that it has been an adventure. I’ve been going through the simple pains of learning how to use a Mac, but I think I’ve got it down for the most part. I can see why so many people like it, and in many ways it simplifies the way a user uses a computer. I think a lot of the different aspects of the Mac are well thought out, while others (like the one button mouse) are ridiculous. Fortunately I think I’ve got the most of it down.

Deepest Sender - Best FireFox Blog Extension... Worst Name Ever

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:08:34 +0000

Alright, I’m trying out Deepest Sender, an extension for FireFox that allows me to send blog posts to my WordPress blog. It’s pretty amazing, except for one thing….

What the heck is up with the name? How is Deepest Sender suppose to reflect it’s name? I tried browsing on the Add-ons website for FireFox, and I couldn’t find anything. I even started looking at the FireFox Extension Documentation on how I could make one, because I was beyond belief I couldn’t believe one didn’t already exist.

iPhone SDK release on March 6th?

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:01:37 +0000

According to Information Week the iPhone SDK will be released March 6th. It seems a full blown event is happening, so I doubt we’ll have to worry about it being pushed back. However from their news post it seems applications have to be approved. Will there be a way to get apps without having Apple’s consent? I hope so. I’m tired off my applications, PCs, and devices treating me like I’m a 4 year-old. Yes, I understand the general populous will download, install, infect, and destroy any of their devices while the whole time saying “what? what happened?”

Thunderbird Email Client: A Guide for Outlook Lovers (Part 1)

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:04:31 +0000

Overview

I’ve been using Thunderbird over the last year or so, and especially with version 2.0 I think it is a great client. In my opinion, it is the only decent email client that can compete with the easy of use of Outlook, yet totally dominate Outlook when coming to not being a bloated pig. I’m sorry, but when I run 4 IMAP accounts, and I have a PC with 4 gigs of RAM and a quad core processor, and Outlook is so slow and takes minutes to become responsive, it is just bad.

iPhone & Vista 64-Bit.... Finally!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:50:41 +0000

Here is the good news finally: iPhone Supports Vista 64-Bit. It’s about time, its only taken 6+ months to get a version of iTunes that works with Vista 64-Bit. I will say that Apple seemed to be the slowest people to adapt to 64-Bit for Windows. And for every apple fan boy who said downgrade to 32-Bit…..

I have 4 Gig Ram, which 32-Bit only works with 3.5 GB, and I’m probably going to drop in another 2 Gig in the very near future. (And, more and more computer vendors are moving to make 2 GB standard and 4 GB upper end, instead of the previous 1GB standard 2GB upper end)
Within 1-2 months all my latest software was updated and compatible with Vista 64-Bit. Most aren’t compiled 64-Bit, but they work perfectly like they would on a 32-bit machine.

To everyone who said get a Apple computer for 64-Bit machine….

iPhone and WordPress

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:40:05 +0000

I am now testing my new plugins for my iPhone for wordpress. So far they seem pretty good. I got two plugins: one for visitors and another for an admin panel.

I’ll write the rest from my computer…

There we go. Don’t get me wrong, I love the iPhone keyboard, but I’m pretty sure that a full size keyboard is much faster to type on. Now, how I did it. The two plugins are called iPhone Mobile Admin and iWPhone.