Since I moved to Conway and started to going to church down here I have met a lot of talented programmers that work at Acxiom, they are one of the largest employers here in town, if not the largest. For a few years now I have noticed that their morale has been on a sharp […]
Archives for January 2008
Ways You Can Use Twitter
A while back I posted a blog entry about my first impressions of Twitter, click here to read that blog entry, I had been playing with the app for a little while and hadn’t really gotten a clear idea as to how it could be useful to any of my clients so I kind of […]
PHP 4.4.8 Released
This month the PHP Development Team released it’s newest update to the 4.4 development branch, it’s 4.4.8. There are a couple of bug fixes in this upgrade that might be of interest to developers who rely on PHP to develop applications. Here’s a short excerpt from the PHP website, you can click on the changelog […]
Plaxo is Awesome!
I have a large contacts database that I have been building since I entered the business world I guess. I feel fortunate to have had an opportunity to cross paths with a lot of talented folks and to have worked with them from time to time on various projects. I use Microsoft Outlook to manage […]
OutSync links Facebook & Outlook…
I ran across a pretty cool tool on Download.com the other night and decided to give it a try. It is called OutSync and what it does is it links your Outlook to your Facebook account and allows you to synchronize photos from your Facebook contacts with your Outlook. Why would you want to do […]
Hosting Bookmarks…
I actually learned about Hosting Bookmarks a while back reading one of Mitch’s blogs and finally had an opportunity to check it out, it’s a very slick website that I think that I could literally spend hours on. Imagine this, it’s kind of like Digg in how that it operates but it’s very industry specific […]
Book Review: Sitepoint’s Build a Database Driven Website…
Sitepoint Books are usually very well written books and this one is one is no different, it’s a great read and I recommend it to everyone who asks about good books they can pick up to learn more about web development. This is another book that I keep on the bookshelf behind my desk and […]
Shockwave Object Fix – Javascript
If you have ever been on a website that when you moused over a flash animation or shockwave object you get a mouseover that says “Click to Activate and use this control”. This is a result of litigation that was won over Microsoft so they were forced to change their Internet Explorer web browser, it […]
Wal-Mart Computer Prank
This is hilarious, some kid calls Wal-Mart and tells the worker that he is from Corporate and has her to upgrade her computer to have a “wireless keyboard”. haha. It’s hilarious, it’s a wonder though that she wasn’t electrocuted. He manages to get her to cut a bunch of wires over the course of a […]
Brock Lesnar in the UFC
I am pretty stoked about Brock Lesnar competing in the UFC, I think that he should be pretty awesome, he’s one big tough dude with a lot of good fighting skills. Here’s a sample clip that I ran across on Cage Potato that has him taking out Min in pretty short time. I am anxious […]