I use Skype every day for work. It is a critical application for me. I am also a software engineer and understand how to read crash reports and tail log files, etc. So when Skype for Mac started crashing on me – it seriously impacted my work life. This post will help share how I…
Continue reading →Have you heard of Amazon’s immersion reading feature? Well I have — and trust me this was a rather involved production with my wife and kids to get it to work. I thought I would post my experience here for others. Overall Impression Great little feature if you already have Kindle. However it’s expensive. A…
Continue reading →I stumbled upon Toptal the other day and wanted to share a valuable resource I discovered. Toptal is a site that helps companies hire and manage freelanced engineers. The site was very slick and well organized. Almost made me wish I needed to hire some engineers so I could get the experience of working with them. However…
Continue reading →If you SSH into a lot of different servers, you may want to create an SSH Config file so that you can use shortcuts to do the commands. This post will go over the basic steps of creating an SSH Config File. Without this file if you wanted to SSH to a server, you needed…
Continue reading →Getting ready for summer, I just finished building a custom patio table. Our neighborhood suffers from really bad wind so I wanted to build a strong sturdy table that seat 6-8 naturally and can even squish in 10 – 12 as needed (hence the wider approach on the table. Here is the table frame being built…
Continue reading →I racked my brain on this one for a bit the other day. So I figured I would make a post on it to hopefully help some others. During my development of a WordPress plugin I was having trouble with WordPress and jQuery working together. In particular, having jQuery interact with a Form element inside of…
Continue reading →This is a fast and simple script to validate a phone number. The purpose of this script is to keep things simple. The scripts cleans input whether it is passed as a numeric value or as a string. It then validates it’s count of numbers found present in the value, then returns only the numbers…
Continue reading →There is a great tool available to get the current counts of Social Shares a URL has received. It can be accessed here: www.webalyzing.com/free-seo-tools/social-sharing-counts.php In essence, it ping various social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, etc and queries your URL against those sites. It then presents you with a count of the number of…
Continue reading →Here are some details of projects around the house I want to do during 2015. Lay Concrete next to Driveway – for a trailer, etc We want to extend the width of our driveway so as to park a trailer, etc on it. Some details and considerations are as follows: Approx size would be: 13′ x…
Continue reading →I came across a great article today. https://medium.com/backchannel/a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-1df945c09ac6 A 19 year-old expressed his personal thoughts and views on Social Media and what his demographic considers of each medium. A very fascinating look at how some of the social media outlets today are used by that aged demographic. I particularly enjoyed the analysis on going to…
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