Delete button != Back button
I’m not sure who decided that the delete button would make a great back button in a web browser but they need to have their keyboard license revoked. After filling out a lengthy…
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It’s Your Head Not Your Butt That Matters
I’ve been writing code all day, again. Luckily I enjoy writing software. There are moments when I and the computer don’t get along. On those days I consider becoming a garbage man…
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Teachers Without Borders
During the day and lately most of the night I work as a Fellow for Teachers Without Borders at Utah State University. (funded by Cisco). What I actually do bores most people and…
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Scalr – Scalable Hosting Framework for Amazon Web Services
Amazon’s web services business has sparked a number of business opportunities. Using EC2 and S3 is not especially easy for a beginner, but scalable web architectures aren’t a…
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A Few More Thoughts On Morph Exchange
I am working on a quick Facebook application for a company called Flat World Knowledge. Basically I have 4 days to build the application – it has to be done by Tuesday. Because of…
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PicLens on ThePlanCollection.com
David Wiley pointed me to PicLens a few days ago. It is fun way to view online images. Immediately I saw the potential use for viewing house plans. We already have data feeds in…
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Morph Exchange Review
I recently wrote about Cloud Computing. Alain Benedict from Morph Exchange told me that I neglected to add his company to the list. I said I would check it out. He said he would…
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Elastic Cloud Computing
One of the most difficult tasks when putting up a new site is picking the right host. Moving hosts later on is terribly difficult so choosing the correct hosting company is as…
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The Internet Currency
A long time ago people figured out that if you used coins for trading instead of chickens you could build up a complex economy. The coins usually consisted of something precious…
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Automatically Geotag Photos
I know that adding GPS to cameras will add cost to the unit but it seems like the perfect marriage. With the GPS data embedded inside the exif data you won’t have to tag your…
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Turn WordPress Into Social Butterfly
I have been pitching this idea of a distributed social network to everyone that can stand to listen to me. I realize that the conversation around WordPress and the future of…
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Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE
I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you…
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Kill Internet Explorer With CSS
We got a call today at The Plan Collection that was interesting. A guy was trying to print out one of our pages. Each time he tried his browser would crash. At first I thought…
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WordPress Multiuser Extensions
I didn’t just want to setup a WordPress Multiuser site. I also wanted to be able to use multiple domains. Here’s the plugin to make that happen. Setting up the multi site manager…
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Utah WordPress Meetup
I spent this afternoon with some really cool and interesting individuals from around utah. Matt Mullenweg, the original developer of WordPress was in town and was willing to come…
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Email Sucks
In a job interview a long time ago I was asked what I hate to do the most. At the time my response was, “write USB device drivers.” I had to do that at Sorenson Vision and I hated…
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Internet Failure
By total chance I found this article about the internet failing in two continents. This hurts the economy of several Middle Eastern and African countries which sucks. Wasn’t the…
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Godaddy EPP Code
I keep trying to setup new websites because I like to pollute the internet. Ok not really, but I want to setup another domain on my bluehost account because I can have as many as…