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Blog › Canon T2i

Canon introduces a DSLR priced for consumers with video features of the 7D. Game changer or the inevitable trickle-down of features previously reserved for professional-level cameras? It just may be both.

Dump › Scroll though files in Eclipse at light speed

As your development-related projects get larger, you invariably will find yourself having to work with files with more lines of code. Even with all of the great keyboard shortcuts for hopping around in a file that are available in Eclipse, there will still be a lot of scrolling involved in large files. When we’re talking [...]

Dump › Silencing alert.wav in Windows Mobile 6.5 in 2 Steps

While it may not be the highest priority on the list of things to fix in Windows Mobile, the default alert sound (alert.wav) has always been high on the list of things that make me want to throw my phone at a wall. Put simply, it’s the nails on chalkboard equivalent of Windows Mobile sounds. [...]

Blog › In need of some support

The search for a solution to shoulder & neck pain related to staring at a computer screen all day could be coming to an end...

Lab › Wordpress as CMS – Making the Connection

One of the things that excited me (and scared me) about being able to create an unlimited number of content types was the connections that could be formed between items of different types. What excited me about this was the “automatic” nature of it– being able to define a connection between one content type [...]

Lab › Wordpress as CMS – Dynamic Forms

While I’m still working out the exact method to define a content type, I’m far enough along that I was able to start working on the code to display the extra forms for each content type. The idea is simple: Select a content type, and the additional form fields for that content type appear below the [...]

Blog › Wordpress 2.1 “Ella”!

It’s hard to keep working on the plugin when I find out that a new version of Wordpress has been released. Lot’s of cool stuff from a user and developer standpoint. Read the announcement. Sounds like there’s a lot of new goodies for plugin developers. I don’t know whether I should keep working on my [...]

Lab › Wordpress as CMS – Content Types

I’m currently working on the Content Types feature of my CMS plugin for Wordpress. As , I think this is an important feature for a CMS that is truly extensible and flexible enough to be used for any purpose. At the moment, I’m working on determining the best way to define a Content Type and [...]

Blog › Lists – So Close, Yet So Far

Last night I reached a point where basically had all the core functionality I wanted for . I uploaded it to the live server, and it worked equally well on my PC and my mobile phone. Awesome. When I started working on it today, I felt that it still wasn’t quite as “dynamic” as [...]

Lab › Mini Project: Lists

I've recently started working on a simple web-based application in the hopes of solving one of (my) life's little problems, which I am currently referring to simply as "Lists".