Author: Scott

  • iPhone Weather Apps Suck

    This is just ridiculous that I have to check 5 weather apps to try to figure out how hot it is. This was the temperature last night at 9:52pm in Burbank, California: My guess was that it was around 74 – 76 degrees.

  • Waiting for soccer pictures

    via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/QMPyUWKwJR/

  • Phoenix and Bugsy kickin’ it in the hammock at Jack’s birthday

    via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/P8YCKeKwHt/

  • Waiting for Sound of Music @ Hollywood Bowl

    via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/P5jPHaqwGS/

  • Importing Large Files into MySQL using phpMyAdmin and CPanel

    When I need to upload large .sql file (greater than 10 MB) into MySQL using phpMyAdmin, it frequently times out. The annoying the solution is to split the SQL file into several smaller file, but text editors will hang up if the file is too large, and if you aren’t careful you can break the […]

  • My Password Was Hacked

    This past weekend, a major website was hacked, and all the emails and passwords were posted online for the world to see. Luckily for you, it was a network of technical websites.  So if you aren’t a tech guy, you probably aren’t affected. Unluckily for me, my personal email and password was one of the […]

  • Switching to the Mac: Buying a Mac

    Almost 10 months ago, I purchased my first Mac. Because a lot more of my website work was less Microsoft and more Open Source, it made more sense. I also wanted to learn iPhone / iPad development which is impossible without a Mac. For an employed Windows developer, it was scary, confusing and exhilarating. There […]

  • Integrating Forums with WordPress

    There are three viable options if you want to leverage WordPress as your Content Management System, yet want to offer your users a way to interact in a forum. bbPress phpbb vBulletin bbPress bbPress is a very lean forum solution for WordPress written by Automatic.  It is a great idea for a quick and dirty […]

  • Stephen Colbert Said My Name On The Colbert Report

    Not sure how long the link will stay live but you can see it at the 5:30 mark over at Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/125504/the-colbert-report-tue-feb-2-2010 I signed up for the beta of Blippy.com which he was making fun of.  It is a site that allows you to share your credit card purchases. You can view my boring purchases […]

  • How To Cheat at Mafia Wars

    More truthfully, this is  “How to Take Maximum advantage of the rules in Mafia Wars”. If you play correctly, you can get to a point where you will never run out of energy.  You can just level up over and over and over. Today I played for just a little while and completed over 4,800 […]