Archives for January 2009

Biodegradable Notebooks

January 8, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

One of the biggest surprises for me at this years CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas was the unveiling of a new notebook computer from Asus that is partially made from environmentally friendly components. One of these ingredients is, you guessed it, Bamboo! Didn’t see that one coming did you? ASUS Bamboo Ecobook Notebook […]

Naked Dude Dangling from Ski Lift

January 7, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib 1 Comment

Update: 01/13/09 – My business partner sent me a link this morning to this game that has already been created to go along w/ the naked ski life dude. Could it be that this guy is destined to become an Internet Legend alongside the Star Wars Kid and the Grape Stomping Lady? ————————————– Okay, this […]

WordPress(MU) Multi-User

January 6, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

I have spent some time the past few evenings researching WordPress MU for a project that I have had in mind for quite some time and just like everything the guys at Automattic and WordPress put out, I have to say that I am very impressed. My concentration into this software started a few days […]

AJAX for updating other fields

January 6, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

Here is a cool trick for utilizing AJAX to update other fields on pages inside of PHPR code. I have to thank Giles for pointing out calculation.js to me, see his notes below in this post. The problem I wanted to solve was updating many price fields on a page as the user entered data […]

Pulling URL from _table_search.php

January 6, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

If you are using PHPR (phprunner) as your IDE to develop your PHP applications in here’s a trick that you are likely going to appreciate at some point in your coding career. If you utilize the advanced search feature in your applications (not the standard inline search, but the advanced search) and you would like […]

Predictions for 2009

January 6, 2009 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

I just posted Josh Catone’s Top 15 Stories of 2008 on my blog a few minutes ago and then stumbled upon his predictions for 2009, I figured this was worthy of posting as well. I think that Josh has hit the nail on the head again w/ this article. I share his belief that technologies […]