It’s been a few months now since Amazon Route 53 was released to the public. Some of you may have forgotten about it, while others are hesitant to change their DNS servers because there may not be much upside to it. Lucky for you, I couldn’t help myself and jumped on board within the first [...]
So if you’ve just recently purchased the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard and encountered an error saying “Recovering Lost memory”. I bet that error only occurs when your attempting to use tri-channel? Try to boot the machine with memory in just the first two memory groups closest to the CPU. Does it show the full memory correctly? [...]
The average blog post is fairly easy to index and crawl for Google. However, what happens when a single page has several hundred comments? How does Google decide what’s important to include in a search query and what to ignore? Heck, in some cases the comments on a Reddit post are more important than the [...]
You heard about Apple’s press conference from Friday about reception and antenna issues. Steve said much about nothing and tried to pass the blame around to whomever he could. However, I want to concentrate on one particular quote that is surprising at first glance: Only 0.55 percent of iPhone 4-related calls received by Apple Care have been [...]
Web developers who plan to work alone, or are already doing so have a lot of obstacles to overcome. One of which is being isolated and having no like-minded professionals to turn to for advice and feedback. I know this one all too well and have been working alone for the past 5+ years on various [...]
Google has announced that they have implemented Soft 404′s as a way to indicate pages that appear to be 404 (page not found) but come up as 200 (Good Response). My initial reaction was that’s great news and should help me out when I forgot to include a 404 header response. So then I [...]
The “cool” thing to say is that Lost was great. When the Sopranos ended people said how great that show was too. In both cases, good shows turned into steaming piles of dog shit rather quickly. So let me take a moment to explain why Lost sucked. Most of you are too lazy to re-watch season 1 [...]
We have all gone to Google.com and noticed that they have a neat little animation to reveal more of their page. So let me show you how to create similar effects using jQuery and jQuery UI. We will be using the .animate effect for jQuery UI, along with FadeIn and AddClass. I’m not going to [...]
The term “social web” sounds great. A lot of people use social websites like facebook, digg, twitter, reddit, etc. Every year more and more social websites create buttons for websites to allow users to vote, like, digg, tweet, etc for their site. While that sounds good at first glance, after a closer look all they [...]