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Coffee and Computers

I love to sit in Fountain City Coffee (or Starbucks), drink coffee, and surf the web.Thank you AT&T for providing free wifi.

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How to change variables in XSLT and Sharepoint

In XSLT you cannot change the value of a xsl:variable once it has been set.<xsl:variable name="counter" select="'1'"/><xsl:variable name="counter" select="'2'"/> <!-- does not work...

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Booq Viper Rush M Review

I purchased a Booq Viper Rush M laptop bag for my Macbook Pro 15".  It retails for $129.95.  You can find it for a little less online. I didn't want to wait for it to get here, so I purchased it from...

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https://indiemacgiftpack.com/

Just purchased the https://indiemacgiftpack.com/What a deal!  I already have MarsEdit (using it now).  Looking forward to using Acorn.  I've been needing a good image editing program.

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Robot Prototype Demo

I'm trying to organize a semi-regular meeting for computer nerds.  Our first meeting will be January 24th, Monday, from 6-7:30 PM at the Columbus Public Library on Macon Rd, in the Synovus Room.Map to...

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Can I mush on Apple for a second?

I know absolutely nothing about video, video encoding, video resolutions, video streaming, or anything else video.  I am a self professed idiot when it comes to video.  And this is why I love Apple...I...

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Window resizing in OS X

I really do not like the way window resizing works in OS X.  In OS X you have this tiny little place in the bottom right of each window.  You have to carefully aim your mouse to grab this little thing,...

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How to Uninstall Infinite Labs Keep Afloat

I searched all over the web for how to uninstall Keep Afloat, but came up with nothing.  It is not a traditional application or service; it is a SIMBL plugin.Uninstalling it is easy.  Open up Finder...

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iPhone Game Development April 11th

Come check out Patrick Smith give a talk on iOS Game development at our next Everything Awesome meeting.More...

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FountainCityCode went down, now its back up

I migrated to Hover.com for my domains.  I messed up on the domain transfer and the site was down for a few days.  It's back.  In case you cared.

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Security in the Bolton Household

What happened....My wife got a nasty virus on her netbook several weeks ago.  Someone uploaded an infected PDF to an education website.  My wife (she's a teacher) downloaded this PDF.  With no...

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Dropbox kept me from loosing my mind

I've been playing D&D with my wife, Jackie, this week.  I like keeping a log of the adventures and a map of the places we've been.  Jackie reached a milestone and her characters both reached level...

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Website password handling is crap

Over the last few months I've been using very complicated and long passwords (with the help of 1Password).  It turns out that many websites cannot handle complicated passwords.  Some outright complain....

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SSDs.... you get what you pay for

My 2.5inch 160GB SSD costs $1.875 per GB. A 2.5 inch 160GB 5400RPM costs $0.218 per GB.Woah, that's expensive!  That SSD is 8.6 times the cost of the HDD.  O  but wait... take a gander at this little...

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SQL Server Express 2008 vs Coldfusion 9

I spent 4 hours trying to get Coldfusion 9 to make a datasource that connects to SQL Server Express 2008.  It kept erroring out.  It looks like many people run into similar issues.A few bloggers and...

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New Job. New Knowledge.

I am moving away from SharePoint development and SharePoint administration to a full-time Web Development job.  This is where I really wanted to be for a long time and I am very excited about this new...

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Google Two Factor Authentication

Credit card companies are paranoid.  It's part of the industry culture - as it should be.  You want them to be extremely protective of your credit card information.  After working at one such company...

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Basic CRUD app for Python and Google App Engine

I wrote a very basic CRUD app for Google App Engine in Python.  It's a basic sample on how to add, edit, delete, and list a single entity in GAE.  I didn't see anything like this on the web when I was...

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Google App Engine Development site is slow to start up

My Google App Engine development website was taking a long time to load up.  During my testing of the app, I kept uploading documents.  After a few days of testing and developing the app, I had loaded...

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The Right Place to Look

I've been struggling with a project over the last few days.  I am dealing with new technology and a new business domain - a one-two punch that easily confuses me. I put a lot of pride in my smarts - I...

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