Yes, I have finally made the leap to an iPhone. I picked up my new iPhone 3GS on Friday and have been lost in its brillance ever since.
In so doing, I left my Palm Treo 755p behind. And I’m now off the Palm platform for the first time in a decade. As you might imagine, [...]
Author Archives: J.J.
How I Ported Data from My Old Treo to My New iPhone 3GS
June 22, 2009 – 11:18 am
Free Themes to Check Out For WordPress 2.8
June 11, 2009 – 1:59 pm
First, you should know that WordPress 2.8 was released last night. Upgrading has never been easier. I’ll be interested to see what the upgrade rate is with this release.
And I just read a great post on 10 Free WordPress themes. There’s some really appealing options in that list. Despite the fact that we’ve been digging [...]
How I write blog posts
May 27, 2009 – 10:22 am
I would not claim to be a prolific blogger. Nor I would even attempt to label myself plainly as a blogger despite the fact that I manage and write for a few blogs about my personal life, the Red Sox, and here on Red Pill.
Here’s I typically put together a post. Or at least [...]
Nice update to Twitter email notifications about new followers
May 7, 2009 – 3:31 pm
Sometime in the last day, email notifications to me about new followers of my Twitter account were accompanied with information about who the person is. The information in the email now includes the number of followers that user has, the number of people he/she follows and the number of Tweets from that person.
This is an [...]
BigDump – A very handy MySQL transfer utility
May 7, 2009 – 2:57 pm
Sometimes, you need to transfer a mysql data dump and the process is complicated because what PhpMyAdmin exports for you can not be easily imported into another MySQL database PhpMyAdmin over http because of the file upload limitations of the php web server.
That’s where a utility like BigDump comes in handy.
BigDump will help you restore [...]
The Vader Project
April 24, 2009 – 1:44 pm
I try to avoid writing blog posts that are basically a hyperlink with a piece of text saying “go look at this now.” But every once and a while I find something on the web which is a perfect union of techonlogy, culture, and design. This is one of those times.
I bring you The Vader [...]
Tabbloid helps you spend more on ink
April 13, 2009 – 10:52 pm
A few years ago, I was chatting with a good friend of mine about an interactive project he was working on for a client. The project was a flash based web site that allowed you to develop custom greeting cards and print them out at home. Not e-cards. But actual physical birthday and holiday cards [...]
Have a multi-author blog? Don’t forget about WordPress’s author RSS feeds
April 10, 2009 – 1:51 pm
Let’s say you’re part of a blog that has more than one author. You are reading one of those blogs right now. Other examples in the category would be AllThingsD, TechCrunch, and WebWorkerDaily. You’ll also want to execute a content outpost strategy using your RSS feeds. Content outposts – I love that term that Chris [...]
Celebrating Twitter turning 3 by digging up my most important Tweets
March 30, 2009 – 3:08 pm
On March 21, Twitter turned 3 years old. (That also happens to be the first full day of spring.) So I decided to dig into my Twitter archives to find my most significant tweets since my very first one on May 17, 2007.
You can see my first 16 tweets using the very cool My Tweet [...]
