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Google Indexing getting more flash friendly

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Monday, June 30, 2008 at 9:31 PMWe’ve received numerous requests to improve our indexing of Adobe Flash files. Today, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins—software engineers on our indexing team—will provide us with more in-depth information about our recent announcement […]


using wordpress from multiple locations

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Wordpress checks to make sure your running on from the proper site location. Problem is sometimes you just need it to run. ex: wordpress runs at elsid.net, admin runs at admin.iamsid.net Or you run both your development and production version of wordpress from the same db edit the get_option function in the functions.php file in the wordpress includes […]


php security in a nutshell

Friday, May 9th, 2008
I have a friend I’m teaching foundation security to. This post is for him, but also as a protest to some of the materials I’ve found when looking for reference material for him. Security at it’s simplest form is common sense. ask yourself, how can I make sure I get exactly what I want? How do […]


Wordpress: modifying uploads

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I’ve been working for a while to figure out how to modifiy the way wordpress handles uploads.  If your trying to make changes in the actual upload process open file.php in the wordpress wp-includes folder. the function you’ll need to make changes to is wp_handle_upload for anyone wondering why you would ever want to modify uploads heres […]


Joyent: free accelerators for facebook apps

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Facebook, Joyent and Dell have partnered to provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure from Joyent to Facebook developers. Joyent’s Accelerator on-demand infrastructure (peered with Facebook’s datacenter!) provides the very best load balancers, routing and switching fabric, x86 servers and storage from Dell. Facebook developers can take advantage of Joyent Accelerators to quickly launch Facebook applications capable […]


integrating wordpress into existing site

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
this is more for my reference than anything, but I cover the areas i modified to integrate wordpress in to a clients current site. I’m posting this, mainly to keep me from having to compare files everytime i do a wp upgrade. its by no means a solid tut as there are additional site classes […]


the new network: what’s it about

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I’ve been posting alot on linux htpc, mythtv, and netowrking here and there, thought i should prob explain what i’m looking to do.also i need to start documenting stuff for myself. current systems right now i have 4 boxes. p4 2.4 laptop p4 2.8 laptop pentium m 1.8 laptop amd x2 4600 desktop at the current moment there all being used as […]


AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season

Monday, November 19th, 2007
With a fresh cash infusion of between $550 million and $700 million from Abu Dhabi’s Mubdala Development, AMD is rolling out its “Spider Platform,” which includes the new Phenom processors (desktop versions of the quad-core Barcelona), HD3800 series graphics (rolled out last week) and the new 790 chip set. » AMD lets Spider platform out for […]


linux: setup Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 on linux and windows

Monday, November 19th, 2007
more linux hdtv stuff. I’ve used this recently and I loved it. wanta get one for my broadcasting kit - just in case Hauppauge has released a fairly nifty USB 2.0 tv tuner stick, about the size of a lighter, that can receive free over the air HDTV and analog cable tv signals. The product also […]


basecamp’s down, and so are your clients.

Monday, November 12th, 2007
rackspace has a power outage, and theres alot of servers down, like basecamp, some of my clients, and maybe some of yours. whats up? We are experiencing power problems at our DFW Datacenter which may be affecting you. When it became apparent that power was lost in parts of the facility, Rackspace immediately engaged emergency response […]