Category Archives: Tech

…for the search results tell me so. I have to say that I was pretty surprised when I discovered a hit to my site for a Google search on “drupal theme building freelance” (and was pleased that it translated into my first international client). Out of curiosity I did the search and I was trulyContinueContinue reading “Google Loves Me, This I Know”

UPDATE: I have written a more current, relevant post comparing Ecto and MarsEdit, March 30, 2008. Always in the pursuit of more toys, um, I mean tools, I have been trying out two desktop blogging applications. What’s that mean, you ask? This is software that you install on your computer that will let you writeContinueContinue reading “Desktop Blogging: Ecto and Live Writer”

I have been playing with the new Linux beta for the graphics program Xara Xtreme. It is vector program that really is spiffy and the price is right. The Linux version is free although there will eventually also be a paid version which will have non-open source resources, like Pantone colors. The Windows version costsContinueContinue reading “Xara Xtreme for Linux”

I have finally gotten around to seriously testing out some different IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for my PHP coding. I currently use jEdit as an all-around editor and I love it. It has PHP parsing (but no fancy autocomplete stuff), FTP, project management, snippets and some really good XML plugins but the big hangup IContinueContinue reading “PHP IDEs: Eclipse, Zend and Komodo”

RSS is very difficult to explain to someone who hasn’t seen it in action. I end up describing it (very generally) like so: RSS is a way that a web site can make information (articles, train schedules, music, etc.) available in a technically standard way. There is a wide variety of a type of applicationContinueContinue reading “RSS – A mysterious yet very useful tech thing”

I finally managed to get all of my PNG graphics working properly in IE. For those that don’t know, IE (Win) does not support transparency in PNG images. The welcome box on my home page and the “frosty” bar in the header are examples of a PNG with transparency – you can see the backgroundContinueContinue reading “PNG transparency in IE”

So, I found a nice little tool to help me wade through the web called toread (via Lifehacker – one of my favorite “that’s a useful tool” sites.) Basically all you do is sign up at toread with your email and then add your own special bookmark to your browser. Whenever I come across aContinueContinue reading “Keep track of websites to read”

Let me start off by noting that while I spend most of my waking hours on a computer and many of them on the web, I am not necessarily “hip” in a web 2.0 way. The whole “social” trend on the web has been passing me by. I am vaguely aware of things like FlickrContinueContinue reading “The Social Web meets Hermit”