October 2011
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VPS.net Review
I created my account with VPS.net with high hopes. Web hosting has always been a troublesome area for my business. It seems that every hosting company has at least one or two major flaws, whether it is poor support, poor offerings, high prices or rampant downtime. With my current hosting provider, it was a combination of high prices and poor offerings. I switched to VPS.net and immediately those...
January 2010
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Using HDMI video with digital optical audio on a...
I spent far too long on this, Googled about a million times and finally figured out the solution on my own. I figured it might be worth putting this on the Intraweb, since I couldn’t find it anywhere in my travels.
The Goal: I have a Mac Mini that I wanted to run through my Pioneer VSX-1019AH-K receiver with the video through HDMI and the audio through a digital optical port.
The Setup:...
Hilarious Google Maps Spoof Video →
skEdit as an alternative to Coda
I tried. Well, I gave it a few hours - I think that counts as trying. After my well documented problems with Coda, I figured I would give skEdit a try today. After about two hours, I’ve decided that skEdit is very similar to Coda. It’s just not as refined or well thought out. The projects aspect is very similar to Coda, but more confusing. There is no “Upload All” feature...
Great quote on the art of being lazy →
Saw this over on 37Signals today, loved it.
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Simfatic Forms JS Validation System
I don’t use their program, but the Simfatic Forms Validation sysem is a great. It makes things very easy. Unfortunately, there isn’t a ton of documentation out there, at least that I’ve been able to find. Especially for regular expressions. Here is a regexp example from an event registration form that I created. It requires a monetary amount to be entered properly. ...
December 2007
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My problems with Coda
I love Coda. I also hate Coda. I love that Coda has a beautiful interface, I love that it organizes my files into “Sites”, I love that it handles the FTP process for me. I hate that Coda continually freezes on me and I hate that Panic isn’t really doing much about it. I’ve offered my help to them over and over - they just don’t seem all that interested.