My Favorite People to Follow on Twitter.

April 14, 2009

The public backlash to Facebook’s redesign combined with the rumor that Google was interested in purchasing Twitter created the perfect Twitter storm.  It seems everyone is Twittering now and Twitter has become web media’s darling.  To jump on the very popular band wagon, I thought I’d share some additional Twitter knowledge and share my favorite [...]

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Android getting an update

April 13, 2009

Looks like Android is getting an update to version 1.5 “cupcake” later this month.  One of the best new features (in my opponion) is the addition of an on-screen keyboard (ala iPhone) a video of which can be seen here.  Additionally it looks like faster browsing and the ability to record video will be available [...]

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using the dell mini 9

April 3, 2009

i thought it might be nice to post a few of my thoughts on using the dell mini 9 now that i’ve used it enough to formulate some opinions.  when i first pulled it out of the box and installed Ubuntu on it, i thought the biggest issue i would have with it would be [...]

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7 entertainging IE6 bashing sites.

April 2, 2009

It’s an easy target, I know but people have sent me so many good anti IE6 sites lately that I felt compeled to compile a list.

Internet Explorer Blows Hard – this guy in addition to having a nice rant, gives some examples of how to use IE conditional statements to display a message to users [...]

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Color (two toned) “Black & White” images

March 30, 2009

eThis morning I got stuck trying to do something fairly simple on a design.  I wanted to create a two toned image (think black and white but a color instead of black).  I have done this before, but it’s always been kind of hacked together and i really wanted the color to match some elements [...]

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New Plugin Idea – New Information

March 27, 2009

So i have been playing around with Twitter a bunch lately as it seems much of the world has been.  I had a friend ask me today about pulling Twitter feeds into a site – i did some research on the Twitter Search area and tagging (#hankisme) which lead me to RSS feed parsing.  Then [...]

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Jimmy Fallon is a Geek like me!

March 23, 2009
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A few Twitter resources

March 21, 2009

Lately Twitter has been my social media outlet of choice.  I like the simplicity and the power it has as a marketing tool.  Here is a handful of links that I’ve found interesting lately.

Tracking Twitter (http://www.trackingtwitter.com/) is a nice mashup that lists the popularity of various, brands, media outlets, television shows, celebrities, and electronic artitsts [...]

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How to write a plugin for WordPress – Part 1 the Admin Area

March 19, 2009

The most remarkable part of WordPress in my opinion is the built-in ability for a developer to easily extend the core functionality without modifying any core files.  The WordPress devlopers really got this one right.  WordPress core functionality is extended by authoring a plugin (see our WordPress Hooks, Actions & Filters tutorial for how these [...]

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Creating a Better 404 page

March 18, 2009

Spend enough time on the interwebs and you’re liable to flub some url while typing and end up looking for a page that doesn’t exist.  In the tech world these are known as 404 pages.  404 pages are standard HTTP response codes that essentially tell a user “hey what you’re looking for isn’t here”.  Many [...]

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