I don’t know about you but to me I think the idea of CAPTCHA usage is a little backwards. We are asking humans to prove that they are human, how dumb. Plus not only that, but we are more then insisting that low/poor vision users don’t use our applications. Why not start [...]

So I was thinking this evening about creating an RSS parser in Ruby. You know… Ruby supports this built in? Big surprise right? All you have to do in require the rss library:
require ‘rss’
Then of course if you want to open up a connection to a URL you need to include the [...]

A few weeks ago I ran into an issue where I found myself locked out of the MySQL server that runs locally on my Mac.  After some research and toying around I was able to reset the password.  So for those of you unaware of how this process works, I’m going to share it with [...]

So during the Web 2.0 conference I was exposed to continuing babel on the idea that feed syndication and blog marketing in general is yet the next one trick pony to fill all the needs a corporation might have due to unfocused marketing dollars. Here’s the general mistake with this logic… You see, yes [...]

So I finished a few TextMate snippets last night to help me in the production of microformats for my client’s websites. A few little tweaks left, but all and all I’m happy with them.
Today I decided to try something new and to add some geocoding data to a new site’s “Contact Us” page [...]

So yesterday something happened.  Out of nowhere.  I began to “get it”.  All this stuff I was so confused about regarding Rails and Ajax - the holes in my understanding of DOM manipulation.  Now I’m not making claims by any means that I’ve turned into some expert.  I’m simply stating that I’m starting to finally [...]