Jonathan Franzone Google Earth 4.3 Released Mashable gives the lowdown on the new version of Google Earth Where’s Our Real World Data Portability? Josh Catone at Read Write Web talks about data on the internet. What does data portability mean? Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice TechCrunch covers an incident of a man using Twitter to get …
I use NetVibes for my browser home page and RSS feed reader and I’ve noticed over time that some of the feeds that I subscribe to have pictures embedded within their feed summary. Why doesn’t my feed have a picture in it? I thought that this was really neat because it gives you a quick …
Well, anyone who is “in the know” knows that the 2.5 version of WordPress has been out for a while. Ok, but a guy can’t just go updating his blog all willy-nilly. There are plugins that must be checked for compatibility and data to backup and so forth and so on. Yes, now I’m just …
This one comes by way of a special request from a special someone in my life. You know who you are! 😉 This is the pop hit single Funky Town by Lipps, Inc. You can get this awesome gem on their album Funkyworld: The Best of Lipps, Inc. You can listen to the entire track …
“Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.” Have you ever complained about customers and scope creep? Well, Wally has the answer for you.
App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google Brady Forrest over at O’Reilly Radar gives us the low-down on the new Google App Engine project. This is a hosted platform for creating web applications, including storage, auto-scaling, Google’s processing power and a datastore. Hack Your Mid-Week Routine To Enjoy The Coming Weekend Hyder at Everybody Go …
Here is the situation. You are writing a program in Java. You need to access data in a Microsoft SQL Server via stored procedure and the data has an XML field. A what field? SQL Server 2005 introduces a new datatype for XML. It is essentially a blob field that you can perform XML operations …
In a recent article I outlined how to modify the output of the wp_list_pages() template function in WordPress. Later on, however, I found that having the <span> tags that I added in every single title was not desirable. So instead of using a filter I wrote a small bit of custom code to iterate through …
I just can’t seem to get this song out of my head for the past couple of days so it will be today’s Friday Song Of The Day. It’s Can’t Get It Right Today by Joe Purdy from his album, You Can Tell Georgia (2006). Most people will know the song from the Kia Spectra …
I was recently working on a new WordPress theme when I had need to modify the title of pages before output. The style I was attempting to use involved wrapping <span> tags around the title (inside of the href tags). The wp_list_pages() function returns pages (which are basically the same as posts) and has several …