Studio 12a

blog, blog, blog it all
blog it if it’s big or small
…blog even if you’re wrong
won’t you blog about this song?

How could anyone resist? This is a fabulous comical youtube clip based on the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” […]

Subversion (SVN) is a very robust version control system offered by Tigris.org. Subversion offers hooks that can be triggered at various points of the commit process. These hooks can be used to trigger external scripts to perform various tasks. Examples include sending an email about commits and using SVN Notify Mirror to mirror changes to […]

Eric Feng offers 250 tips on public speaking. Granted, that’s probably more than one wants to read just before speaking but several are very affirming or inspiring.
Follow the 80/20 rule - 80% prepared. 20% impromptu. Being prepared is extremely important but when you are too prepared, you take the fun out of a speech. […]

The article “The Unofficial How-To of Open Source” on the website of “Enterprise Open Source” is an interesting analysis on reasons for adopting an Open Source strategy and tips on running an Open Source Project.
Open source software is shifting the software industry into a new paradigm, moving from developing proprietary code behind closed doors […]

My first online article for developer.com came out this week. The article is titled “10 Cool Things You Can Do With JavaScript and YUI“. It’s around 3000 words and includes a working prototype with a source-code download for the lightbox technique using YUI.
Do you have an article suggestion or something web related you would like […]

In a recent podcast of boagworld, I heard a brief mention of CSS Frameworks. Creating reusable CSS has been on my to-do list for about a year now, but ‘the list’ of to-do’s keeps growing and somehow this never got to the top of the list. Luckily, I found that Mike Stenhouse already published an […]

I downloaded a WordPress theme recently that introduced me to Ultimate Tag Warrior, a tag management plugin for WordPress < 2.3.
Ultimate Tag Warrior is a multi-headed hydra of a plugin. It allows you to add tags either through the Write Post page in wordpress in a tag box, on posts using an AJAXy box, and […]

Rumors are going around that Google is shutting down Adsense accounts for made for Adsense (MFA) websites. MFA websites have been around since the launch of Google Adsense. Webmasters that have mastered this technique of website creation are rumored to be able to make aroud $70,000 USD per month.
The technique is pretty simple. Websites are […]

I can’t tell you how happy I am it’s spring. Spring, to me, means the beginning of enjoying a wonderful crop season, stopping by the fresh produce stands and a season of fresh herbs from my container garden.
I found a really great website for just this type of interest called Local Harvest. Local Harvest offers […]

I love reading LifeHacker.com. In a recent article, they describe 15 ways to optimize Firefox including limiting RAM usage, keyboard shortcuts (some were new to me), smart keywords for search and deleting urls from your address bar history.
I found that the article was written with the PC in mind, but Mac users generally know how […]