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  • Plugin Hybrids

    It is always fun to head out to lunch and find the latest in Hybrid technology.

  • Cuckoo’s Egg – Some Books Age Well

    I am re-reading The Cuckoo’s Egg. It is a great book by Cliff Stoll, an astronomer turned sys admin who tracks a hacker through his system. There is a ton of insight in this book on the challenges of securing a system and various techniques. The crazy thing is that this took place in 1984.…

  • Self Check Out Ninja

    You know you are a shelf check out ninja when you memorize produce calls. Bananas for example are #4011. It also shows that we eat a lot of bananas.

  • Wireless speed: AT&T vs Verizon vs Starbucks Wifi

    I just ran the FCC broadband speed app on my iPad 2 using the built-in Verizon 3G, and then ran the same app on my iPhone 3G, which is on the AT&T network. Verizon gave 1.04mbs & .84mbs in download and .6mbs in two test runs. AT&T clocked in at .19mbs & .61mbs download and…

  • iPad 2 – White vs. Black

    So I managed to get myself an iPad 2. Not an easy feat. It took me several trips to the Apple store and a couple to target and the Verizon store. I actually managed to get two iPads… The first a white one and them finally a black one from the apple store. Managing to…

  • Porting Sprint Number to Google Voice

    We have a shared Sprint family plan for both of our Cell phones. The thing is that I also have a Blackberry and iPhone from work. That is 3 phones… and I don’t like carrying them all around. So instead I have decided to port my cell phone number to Google Voice. Since the Sprint…

  • Getting Zend / PEAR to work on Ubuntu

    So I recently switched over from a shared host (1&1) to a Virtual Private Server ( Linode ). With the VPS you still share a server, but you are in complete control of everything. You have to get things up in running from a blank image. This means installing Apache, PHP and all the other…

  • Creating a GeoCMS in Drupal with Custom Map Tiles

    So somehow I stumbled across the idea that I would like to display different nodes on map. Instead of listing different post sequentially in a list like a blog, I want to plot them on a map based upon some sort of geographic tagging. The whole reason I wanted to do that is so I…

  • Color in KML is all wrong!

    I am working on building a Widget for the ESRI Flex Viewer that will import KML files from Google Earth. It is pretty easy to do, they already have a widget which imports GeoRSS feeds and Google has sample Flex Code for importing KML files into a Flex Google Maps viewer. The real work is…

  • Zend Framework, Gdata, Blogger and AuthSub

    So I am working on adding the ability to post to Blogger on the current project I am working on. It has been a tricky road getting there, so I thought I would “document” my learning trail. First place to start out is this getting started page for posting to Blogger using Gdata. There is…