I finally found a fix for my Wacom touch screen on my Gateway E155c. I noticed that it stopped working whenever the laptop resumed from sleep or hibernate. To fix this I had to tell vista that it needed to restart the service if it failed. If you are having this problem you can run [...]

Yesterday, I participated in CSS Off which is basically a 24 hour competition to see who can turn a Photoshop design into the best web page. I used YUI reset-fonts-grids for speed and browser compatibility so I expect to get criticized because its CSS doesn’t validate properly. I also noticed that I have a small error [...]

Lets see I haven’t updated this recently and because this is my personal blog I can write about whatever I want. I recently bought a new laptop (Gateway E155c) with Wacom which makes the tablet a dream to use. I’m considering making my next post a video with all kinds of neat drawings and diagrams. Anyway, [...]

One of the problems I’ve had is how to push updates to static files like javascript and content style sheets. If you want to program for performance you have to use a far future expires header to cut down on HTTP requests. The downside to this is that when you update your script and it [...]

I haven’t messed around with my Google search history all that much but I saw a cool feature today that creates a heat map on a monthly calendar that tracked my search usage. If anything I still use Google way to much. These searches are also only from home desktop. I think 150+ searches per day [...]

In honor of Digg implementing their image section I added Facebook Share preview support to my Cool Pictures site. Now anyone digging or sharing images on facebook will get a handy thumbnail preview. I’m also working on more robust user features so that more people can add, save and rate their favorite images to the [...]

One of my friends suggested that I try the FireFTP plugin after I expressed both my love and frustration over CuteFTP and WS_FTP. This plugin is awesome it has the same layout of any popular FTP client as well as the useful features like drag-n-drop and SSL/TLS encryption. It is also totally free. Download the FireFTP [...]

With one picture I will sum up what is wrong with Digg. Shout spam sucks. I setup an account to see how having friends on Digg could help you get on the front page. My 992 friend sample was made up of a random sample of all active users I could find online over a 2 [...]

Its been about 10 days since I started my cool pictures project. I’ve added a lot of new features like an RSS Feed, sitemap, stats and easy navigation. I still want to give people the ability to upload and create their own niche communities. I have a few other ideas that I’ll keep under wraps [...]

After looking around the net for a way to execute cakephp scripts via a crontab I became fed up and made my own solution. I simply added a function to my existing controller and then executed it via a wget. class PostsController extends AppController function crontab { // 404 if the request isnt from the localhost if($_SERVER(’REMOTE_ADDR’) [...]