Every so often I'll stumble upon a collection of free WordPress themes and I'll go through the list because sometimes you can find some really cool ones or find ideas of how to improve the theme you're currently using. A while ago, I was going through just such a list and found a theme I liked, so I grabbed it and uploaded it to my server to hold onto it. The other day, I was … [Read more...]
First Beta of Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
Microsoft released the first beta of the Visual Studio LightSwitch IDE earlier this week. It's designed to allow non-programmers create business applications and allow programmers of various levels to create applications quickly. It simplifies the process and allows doing many common functions like coding a database interaction to be done from a visual perspective. If you need … [Read more...]
MultiBoot USB: Simplifies Taking Your IT Toolbox With You
Another guest posting over at Freewaregenius today. I really enjoyed writing this article because the tool I found just seems like it will be pretty helpful in my day-to-day work. The tool is called MultiBoot USB and it makes the creation of a bootable USB drive with multiple Linux distributions on it a breeze. For me, this means I can carry GParted, Clonezilla, DBaN, Offline … [Read more...]
Status.net and Sharetronix, a “Twitter” You Own and Control
Twitter has had phenomenal growth and reaches millions of people daily. From the outside looking in, it seems they were able to accomplish this while not following the traditional path of getting everything exactly right. Particularly recently, Twitter has a high rate of downtime and a high response time. Combined with the "Older Tweets are not available..." message, I looked … [Read more...]
Experiences with Three PHP Frameworks in Brief
I'm by no means a PHP developer but I do like to tinker around with it on the side for fun projects on my own and very rarely if something comes up at work. (A lot of my work involves filling in the gaps. Why just last week I was a Visual Basic 2008 programmer again.) Before embarking on my next project, I decided to check out some of the PHP frameworks I've heard about to look … [Read more...]