Ok, so I might be a little behind the times when it comes to mobile phones and SmartPhones. It was a big advance for me when I got one with a color display and MIDI ringtones two years ago. Well, my contract was ending and I’ve been doing some mobile development recently, so I got [...]

At SpiderLogic we have offices in Milwaukee, WI, Madison, WI and Pune, Maharshtra, India. While Milwaukee and Madison are right next door in the global sense, Pune is all the way around the world. Being so distant can make communication challenging of course. When you are in a one-on-one situation, you have quite a few [...]

I just ran across a new Google product (new to me at least). Google Notebook is a tool that allows you to store notes and snippets on a web page for later use. The Notebook can have multiple notebooks in it for different topics, and section headers within a notebook allowing you to group your [...]

I wanted to follow up on my previous post about dealing with blog spam.
I installed Akismet and it has worked flawlessly. It has caught dozens of blog spam posts so far. I have had no false positives and no false negatives yet (i.e. it has correctly identified every comment). The only downside is that for [...]

I assume that many of my readers are technical people and as such are likely to be bloggers themselves, so I post the question to you: How do you deal with blog spam?
I’m currently getting on the order of 30-40 blog spam posts a day. While WordPress does a good job of catching them, and [...]

For the past year, I’ve been running Zorched.NET on a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Virtualization is not a new technology, IBM was doing it WAY back in the day. But recently it has become a lot more common as hardware has gotten so much more powerful. Why let hardware sit idle when you can run [...]

I finally got tired of dealing with reformatting that Wordpress does in its attempt to be “user friendly”. In general it does the right thing, but when you deal with code snipits inside <code> tags a lot it can quickly become a problem.

In just a few easy steps, the problems can be solved.

Well, I got bored again and decided to change the look of the site. I’m pretty excited about it because it’s pretty slick. Check out the ‘Pull’ tab on the top right for some extra goodies.
I’ve also updated to WordPress 2.0.4 with the latest and greatest bug-fixes and security updates.
What do you think of the [...]

The Milwaukee Ruby User’s Group had it’s first official meeting last night. A few people showed up and we talked about some of our favorite ruby features. I talked about Metaprogramming a bit. There was also a good discussion about the Ruby Object Model. (Classes are Objects and Object is a class - holy recursion!)
Check [...]

Ok, so I don’t know what the name is really going to be, but it looks like there is going to be a Ruby User’s group in Milwaukee. There was a kick-off meeting tonight that was well attended for a “getting things started” meeting. Check out the temporary website at http://ruby.georgey.org/
The first official meeting is [...]