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Life is like a hurricane... 14 Aug 2013 | 05:11 am
If, like me, you grew up in the 80's and 90's, you know that there's only one thing that can follow the words "Duck Tales" and that's "Woo-oo!". You can probably even sing along to the theme song. Apa...
CSS3 Experiment: Aero 17 Jun 2013 | 01:24 am
Sometimes it's cool to just try stuff out in web development without having to support every old browser. Here's the result of playing around for an afternoon attempting to recreate Windows Aero look ...
Why your click events don't work on Mobile Safari 7 Jun 2013 | 03:33 am
in the jQuery example) catches all child elements ( ) being clicked. Such a construct enables you have only 1 click handler for any number of matching elements without needing to bind them to each ele...
MIDI Selector tool created 26 May 2013 | 08:34 am
Windows Vista and later no longer include the MIDI mapper that was used in earlier Windows versions to route MIDI output to the preferred device. Vista did away with this, supporting only the rather u...
Update to RunExit tool 25 May 2013 | 09:07 pm
This is an update to the RunExit tool I created a few years ago for Windows 3. The original tool just plain ran the program and waited for it to complete. It didn't set the working directory for the p...
Tip: Getting rid of the warning "The column name 'start' is a MySQL reserved keyword." 23 May 2013 | 06:20 pm
Version 4 and later of popular database management tool phpMyAdmin "helpfully" displays warnings when a column name in a database conflicts with a reserved word in MySQL. This may or may not be an act...
Book review: Magento Performance Optimization How-to 29 Apr 2013 | 07:28 pm
Open source e-commerce platform Magento is widely used and flexible, but at the default settings, it can be dog slow. Packt Publishing recently released "Magento Performance Optimization How-to" by Na...
Magento & Memcached - Fix "Unknown number format type 'boolean'." 14 Apr 2013 | 07:26 pm
Recently, I posted a guide to speed up Magento using Memcached. If you've followed another guide that has incomplete information, Magento may fail to work, greeting you with a rather unhelpful error m...
Magento & Memcached - Fix "Unknon number format type 'boolean'." 14 Apr 2013 | 07:26 pm
Recently, I posted a guide to speed up Magento using Memcached. If you've followed another guide that has incomplete information, Magento may fail to work, greeting you with a rather unhelpful error m...
Speed up Magento with Memcached 12 Apr 2013 | 07:49 pm
Magento is a highly flexible, open source e-commerce solution. Unfortunately, it can also be dog-slow, especially on servers with modest hardware specifications. Throwing extra hardware at the problem...
