Programming

A curve in the Blackberry decision

June 18, 2007

Well after a few months of phone research I finally get to put it to an end tomorrow. I have decided to go with the Blackberry Curve.. it was going to be the pearl but the SureType keyboard bugs me. The size was a factor,...

Stop stealing my bandwidth

by coderman

web crumbs

June 10, 2007

A recent article on Broadband reports states that Time Warner Cable (TWC) is going to be implementing "packet shaping". Which simply means you are punished if your a power user, so instead of upgrading the system they decide to punish you. Their argument is that...

Diving into the Zend Framework

by coderman

PHP, Utilities

May 8, 2007

After a long day of compiling PHP, Apache, Imap, Mailman...

Ubuntu on a Dell

by coderman

Dell, Ubuntu

May 2, 2007

This isn't the first time Dell has shown support for Linux or Open Source for that matter, but it is still nice to see. Not much in the way of details at the moment but it looks promising. Of course you can download Ubuntu or...

Great SVN application for the Mac

by coderman

software, Utilities

April 26, 2007

After trying some command line and GUI based SVN applications I think I finally found one that works well. It looks great, but even more importantly it works great. The tool would be svnX, currently available only on the Mac. Two of my favorite features would...

LA Flash Presentation – PHP/MySQL Shoutbox in Flash

by coderman

Flash, PHP, training

January 11, 2007

Update: Archive of presentation online Update 2: Presentation Source Files Last night I presented an online session on how to create a Flash shoutbox powered by PHP/MySQL. I took the time to explain the entire process, how to set it up and how to build on it...