Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category

Four Tips for Handling Distractions when Working from Home

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Working from home has lots of benefits: no commute, you don’t have to dress for the office, play your music loud, etc. However, in order to keep up (and improve on) your productivity while working at home, it is essential to come up with and enact a strategy for dealing ...

Using SyntaxHighlighter to Format Code in WordPress

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Based on a question in the StackOverflow beta site, I did some quick research into what are the best ways to perform syntax highlighting on code that is posted on blogs. Among the methods that were suggested (by myself or others): Hack together your own display logic to format it as ...

Nice New Features in Firefox Beta 3

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

At any one time during the day, I will have somewhere between 5 and 15 tabs open in my browser. Beyond a desire to stay near the cutting edge of browser technology, I also am constantly on the lookout for the best browser performance. That has led me from IE6 ...

Your Browser is Too Modern

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

What is it with websites in Israel and browsers whose names do not start with the words "Internet Explorer"? Though there is lots of web connectivity and presence, it seems that all of the web developers here were just never told that using Javascript that only works on IE is ...

Resetting a Lost MySQL Password

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I sometimes use a Debian Ubuntu VMWare build to do some LAMP development. Due to my inexperience administering anything having to do with Linux, while trying to reset the root password, I accidentally put in some bad information into the password field (I forgot to use the password() function to ...

New Photo Blog - Israel Photos

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

For the past three and a half years, my wife and I have been using a pocket-sized point-and-shoot digital camera to try and capture our future memories. Although it has and continues to serve us well, we are very often frustrated with the amount of time it takes to capture ...