‘Other’ Archive

How To: 330 Gallon Rain Barrel June 6, 2010 5 Comments

Here is some information about my two 330 rain barrels. This might help you if you are interested in saving some money on your water bill and keeping a fair amount of the rainfall over your property off the watershed and from becoming just wasted runoff. A lot of sites out there sell those 50 [...]

Android SDK – $25 and an hour later January 1, 2010 1 Comment

If you’ve ever had an inkling to get into mobile software development, now is your time. Google has drastically narrowed the gap for wanna-be mobile developers to get into this arena with their opensource and free Android SDK (Software Development Kit). Exciting new phones such as the, HTC “Google Phone”, Motorola Droid, Motorola Cliq and [...]

praux.com API October 28, 2009 1 Comment

If you havn’t seen praux.com‘s fancy API, you should definitely have a look. Here’s an interface I put together that uses the API to display praux-hosted resumes on your own site. Praux is a new site that allows you to assemble, maintain and share your resume with others. The REST design and personal URLs at [...]

Favorite EBay Searches January 19, 2009 No Comments

EBay is a place that lacks description. It is a staple of the Internet, and is often criticized for being a hodge-podge outlet that resembles a dollar store. However, there are treasures that can be found on EBay that extend well beyond what can be purchased at your local store. Now, I know you can [...]

Multiple User Apache Setups November 12, 2007 1 Comment

One of the things I’ve recently been doing, is looking into ways of deploying Apache that can improve security in multiple user web environments. The scenario is that there are 100′s of different users who all want to develop sites under their own virtualhost configs with server side scripting abilities. Also, these same workers often [...]

Wapache – Win GUI Framework October 29, 2007 No Comments

Here is a project that deserves much more attention: http://wapache.sourceforge.net. It is a modified Apache installation for Windows that links the power of apache (including PHP/Perl/etc. extensions) with the Windows GUI to create GUI windows applications simply and easily by way of custom apache Directives that link an Internet Explorer instance to the Windows GUI [...]