Drupalcon Denver

by tyler on March 21, 2012

Almost mid-way through Drupalcon and it’s been very interesting. It’s pretty clear that responsive design is really taking hold in Drupal community. This is a good thing. It was interesting to learn of the W3C’s work on a whole new batch of API’s that will further assist responsive designers in the future.

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A weekend of Mac Repair and Upgrades

by tyler on January 9, 2012

I was a “computer repair guy” this weekend. First up for repair was my son’s iMac, which had a hard drive go bad. Getting to the hard drive in the iMac was fairly easy, but certainly a lot harder than cracking open a PC.

Next up after the iMac repair was upgrading my Macbook Pro with an SSD drive. Working on the MBP was super easy. Took less than 1o minutes to install the new drive. What a difference the SSD makes! Boots in about 8 seconds and launches apps instantly without any bouncing icons in the dock.

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I am done with the Freemium Business Model

December 28, 2011

I am done with “free”. I have come to the realization that most people who want something for free will never, ever think of paying you, no matter how valuable they find your service. I found this cold hard fact out over this Christmas holiday with my free Letter From Santa site. The site uses [...]

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Dynamic Cross-Domain Canonical URL’s with PHP

April 2, 2010

Google announced support for specifying a canonical representation of content back in Feb of 2009. This was done in order to help webmasters avoid duplicate content in their sites by specifying the rel=”canonical” link element in the head section of duplicate pages. In December of 2009, Google announced the ability to implement the canonical tag [...]

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Adwords Conversion Code in Vbulletin

January 2, 2010

I am working on reviving a semi-dead forum of mine and decided to give it a kick start with a small Google Adwords campaign. Before starting the campaign, I wanted to be sure I could track conversions, which in this case a conversion means a new member signing up. The forum is running on the [...]

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Bleu Providence House Concert

September 19, 2009

One of the highlights of my summer was getting to see Bleu play an intimate show for about 10 people at my friends house in Providence, Rhode Island. He played songs from his new album “A Watched Pot” as well as stuff from his previous album, Redhead.

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The new Monster.com website sucks

February 2, 2009

I noticed last week that monster rolled out a new updated version of their website. They added a lot of new ajax stuff on the front, which might seem cool, but obviously they didnt adequately test it. After using it for several days, I have experienced a lot of bugs. Here is an example: I [...]

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Block IP Addresses by Country

April 12, 2008

One of the worst things about being a webmaster is the constant battle we wage against spammers and scrapers. A majority of these creeps have IP addresses which originate from outside the United States in countries like China, Russia, Latvia and Nigeria. After years of being a webmaster, I have found that a majority of [...]

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Trevor’s New Swingset

April 6, 2008

We had Trevor’s new swingset delivered and installed on Thursday. We got it from Creative Playthings in Shrewsbury. The installers did a great job with the install. My yard is not level, so I will need to do some landscaping work around the set. Trevor loves it!

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Tivo on Comcast Sucks

April 6, 2008

So we have had Tivo on Comcast for a full month now and I have to say, it sucks. It’s terribly slow and often gets a green screen of death. Can you say beta? Seriously, what is Comcast thinking releasing this buggy POS? It give’s Tivo a bad name. The most annoying bug is the [...]

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