User Control over the Granularity of Location Services
I use a lot of location services on my phone: when I tweet, more often than not, I include my location. I love geo-tagging my photos, so I generally...
Optimizing site speed: a case study
One of our clients runs an eCommerce site selling workout videos on behalf of George St.Pierre, the UFC Fighter, called GSPRushfit. The videos sell well,...
Measuring Page Load speed with Google Analytics
UPDATE: Google now has a built-in tool for doing this. Simply add the following: _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']); and hey presto: Page-load-speed...
Coldfusion Java.lang.ThreadDeath
Of late, we've stared seeing a raft of errors of type "java.lang.theadDeath" on our Coldfusion-based servers. In every case, these errors were generated...
Calendar Synch
At work, we use a ticketing/timetracking app that I wrote a while back. It's served us well, and, hopefully in the near future, we'll roll it out to be a...
A Day Apart Seattle - my thoughts on the workshop
Last week, I posted my thoughts on Day 1 of An Even Apart (Seattle). I had fully planned on writing on both day 2 & the 3rd-day workshop, but after...
An Event Apart Seattle (2010) - Day 1
I spent the first 3 days this week at An Event Apart (Seattle). This is a conference that I'd been wanting to attend since its inception, but somehow...
Wanted: A twitter/comment plugin combo
When I post an entry (such as this one), I have a wordpress plugin (called Twitter Tools) that sends out a tweet (meta-linking update: like this) telling...
FCKeditor & Firefox 3.6
With the release of Firefox 3.6, those of you who interact with FCKeditor will note that it ceases to work, giving you instead a textarea. This is because...
Newsletter Stats from the Pencilneck CMS
So our CMS, the Pencilneck CMS includes a email newsletter management system. With a little time between finishing one project & starting the next, I...