Labels are so like yesterday, man.

Thought of this today. It is an interesting redefinition of what it means to be a modern day Hippie. Do you think it describes the group of people who used to be part of the modern day counterculture movement and are now having to shoulder responsibility as they grow older?

Hipstersism didn’t or hasn’t really taken off like the counterculture movement of the 60′s thou. Maybe it isn’t really a fair reinterpretation of the word.

I liked this post a week ago.

In a time when a constant flow of information is the norm. People can’t be expected to be on top of all the ‘news’ all the time. There will be that week when you miss the latest meme or that status update from a acquaintance that you all your friends read and liked.

Perhaps in this information age, people are unintentional Hippies at some point or another; because they happened to be more caught up on a particular subject than one of their friends. Something fun to think about.

Austin is still number #5!! I got this info from the meetup page that tracks all the php related groups. A lot of the groups that show up on the list aren’t true PHP user groups, so I had to weed these out. This list is based on the size of the groups off of their meetup pages.

Long term thou I am thinking of moving to a framework. Probably something forked from the CRUD applications we are doing at the PHP Meetups. I think that a custom built site will allow me to tweak it and build in some really cool functionality that will allow the project to expand. Not that I couldn’t do it all with WordPress, but this will be easier, and I will have to worry less about security if I build it myself.

I told Lynn that I was going to make the tech videos into wordpress before I moved, but that didnt’ end up happing because I was too busy with pre-move stuff. Oh well. I should be able to get the new site deployed in the next week or so. Speaking of which I should go measure my office area for the new desk.

My chichi, pebble is going to take some getting used to the new apt because she hasn’t quite figured out that the people above us aren’t actually in the house. The first day was pretty bad she was barking at everything. Some nights are worse than others with her barking at stuff in the middle of the nights. We are working on it.

So my parents gave me some money for new furniture, and that is getting delivered in a week. Right now i’m sitting on the bed working on the laptop which is sitting on a random chair that will eventually go into storage. I’m getting a new living room set and I need to order a new desk from IKEA tonight. Hopefully I can finish unpacking the rest of the crap in the living room this weekend.

The domain is austintechvideos.com.

I have been talking with meetup groups in other cities and my hope is to build it a central place for tech videos on various topics. Right now I have committed to 4 local groups right here in austin and there are probably 10 or more groups that I could be recording.

So if you goto a meetup where you live and are interested in collaborating with me on this project, please get in touch. I would love to hear from you.

Here are the slides for the presentation I am giving at the PHP meetup on Sept 14, 2010.

Messing around with the new default theme, Twenty Ten. It is much easier to customize than Kubrick was for the general user.  As you can see I have modified the header and background Image. This is done all within the admin panel.

The new menu builder kicks ass! It is highly customizable. You can also store different menus, in case you want to switch it up. This is going to make themes a lot more flexible and easier on the theme developers. They won’t have to add as much functionality into their themes with it now already built into the core.

Looking in the options menu. I found a setting that was causing this problem. To disable this do the following:  Tools > Options > Designers > Tables and Designers > Uncheck the Prevent Saving Changes that require table re-creation option.

That fixes it for me.

find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;

The following code will dump it to a list first, then you can review the list and count the number of lines before deleting the empty dirs.

find -depth -type d -empty > list_for_review
cat list_for_review | wc -l
find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;


If you just want to count the number of empty dirs use the following command.

find -depth -type d -empty | wc -l

Have fun removing dirs. :D

Second, along with the new edition of Office 2008, the team is hard at work on the next version of Office for Mac which will launch in time for the 2010 Holiday season. This next version includes a new application– Outlook for Mac. Outlook for Mac is being built from the ground up as a Mac OS X application using Cocoa. It will have a new database that delivers a reliable, high performance, and integrated experience with Mac OS X.  Users will be able to back-up with Time Machine and search email, calendar and contacts with Spotlight. Additionally, Outlook for Mac and the rest of Office will include Information Rights Management, which helps keep sensitive information for only audiences that you intend.
via (mactopia)

The next big version won’t be ready for a while so assuming that what they said on their blog is true a year from now, it sounds like they will be dropping the name. Until then the new version of Entourage sounds pretty interesting, Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition.

The biggest news here is that they are dropping the WebDAV for a better Web Services type communication with Exchange. This will allow for syncing of notes, tasks and calenders. Something that Outlook has been doing for a long time now. It is interesting they don’t mention contacts, because calenders and contacts are the two big things you would want to sync with exchange.

The iGoogle settings are fairly well hidden. On this page you can do helpful things like:

• Hide or Show the Google Chat widget
• Change from Two or Three column layouts
• Easily see/share/delete what gadget you have installed
• Backup and restore the page
• Export/Import settings to a XML file

I was interested in hiding the Gtalk widget on the iGoogle page because I don’t use it anymore. There are some helpful settings available that anyone who uses iGoogle should know about.

1. One Flew Over the Potters Nest
2. The Silence of the Potters
3. Mr. Potter Goes to Washington
4. Sleepless in Azkaban
5. Raiders of the Lost Potter
6. Saving Private Riddle
7. Invasion of the Muggle Snatchers
8. The Day Hogwarts Stood Still
9. Bend it like Potter: The Quidditch Cup
10. When Harry Met Sally … oh wait
11. When Harry Met Ginny
12. There’s Something About Harry
13. Driving Mrs. Pettigrew
14. Kung Fu Potter
15. Harry Potter and the artist formerly know as Prince
16. Harry Potter and the Gonorrhea of Fire
17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Herpes
18. Harry Potter and The Grapes of Wrath
19. Harry Potter: Fellowship of the Staff
20. Harry Potter XXVI: They Finally Graduate
21. Harry Potter and the Revenge of the Slytherin
22. Harry Potter vs Predator
23. Harry Potter and the Brokeback Goblet
24. Harry Potter and the Chamber Pot of Azerbaijan
25. Harry Potter and the Pre-Teen Nerds Acting Bad
26. Harry Potter and the Revenge of Montezuma
27. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer from NAMBLA
28. Harry Potter and the Painful Rectal Itch
29. Harry Potter and the Decline of Literacy
30. Harry Potter and the Sorceress’s Sore
31. Harriet Potter after the Life-Altering Surgery
32. Harry Potter and the Curse of the Lisp
33. Harry Potter and the Inflatable Sheep
34. Harry Potter and Spinning Grave of Tolkien
35. Harry Potter and the Stoned Philosopher
36. Harry Potter and the Carnivorous Pony
37. Harry Potter and the Over-Hyped Children’s Author and Clever Marketing Campaign
38. Harry Potter, the College Years
39. Harry Potter and the Urinal of Wisdom
40. Harry Potter and the Joyride of Power
41. Harry Potter meets Harry and the Potters
42. Harry Potter, Attack of The Phantom Menstral Cramps
43. Harry Potter and the 3 Match Quiddich Ban After Failure to Submit a Urine Sample
44. Harriet Potter After the Life-Altering Surgery
45. Harry Potter Meets Mary Poppins
46. Harry Potter Gets a Job the 9 to 5 edition
47. Harry Potter and House-Elf Chainsaw Massacre
48. Harry Potter and Secrets of the Bed Chamber
49. Harry Potter: The True Hollywood Story
50. Harry Potter and the Highly Unnecessary Yet Mildly Amusing Rejected Title

Bonus:
Robot Chicken Harry Potter

IN PRAISE OF ALE

I cannot eat but little meat,
My stomach is not good;
But sure I think that I can drink
With him that wears a hood.
Though I go bare, take ye no care,
I nothing am a-cold;

I stuff my skin so full within
Of jolly good ale and old.
Back and side go bare, go bare;
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.

I love no roast but a nut-brow toast,
And a crab laid in the fire;
A little bread shall do me stead;
Much bread I not desire.
No frost nor snow, no wind, I trow,
Can hurt me if I wold;
I am so wrapped and thoroughly lapped
With jolly good ale and old.
Back and side go bare, go bare …

And Tib, my wife, that as her life
Loveth well good ale to seek,
Full oft drinks she till ye may see
The tears run down her cheek:
Then doth she troll to me the bowl
Even as a maltworm should,
And saith, “Sweetheart, I took my part
Of this jolly good ale and old.”
Back and side go bare, go bare…

Now let them drink till they nod and wink,
Even as good fellows do:
They shall not miss to have the bliss
Good ale doth bring men to;
And all poor souls that have scoured bowls
Or have them lustily trolled,
God save the lives of them and their wives,
Whether they be young or old.
Back and side go bare, go bare;
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.

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Of the 10 large cities with the best employment prospects, Austin is the leader. Job growth between 2004 and 2008 was a whopping 14.8%

via In Depth: Best Big Cities For Jobs – Forbes.com.

Austin is awesome. I’m excited about starting the new job here.

Twitter is booming, and Google would be “very happy to pursue” an advertising partnership with the microblogging service, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.

via Google: We’d love to supply ads for Twitter | Digital Media – CNET News.

Yea I bet they would. They just have to figure out a good way to do it.  Pownce had ads in between posts, what are tweets on twitter. It will be interesting if they choose something similar or just opt for strategically placed banner ads.

Last week, Google announced an upgrade to its Web-based Gmail service for users of the iPhone and Android-powered devices. The new service has an easier-to-use interface, loads and searches e-mails faster, and has the ability to check e-mails even without access to a wireless signal.

via Technology Review: Gmail Sidesteps the App Store.

Looks like a great way for iphone users to access their email. The majority of them probably use gmail on a regular basis.

President Barack Obama is tapping another RIAA attorney into the Justice Department.

via Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept. | Threat Level from Wired.com.

WTF is he thinking?

Rocker TRENT REZNOR is urging all musicians to follow in his footsteps and ditch their record labels.

Reznor’s band Nine Inch Nails broke away from their deal with Universal in 2007, after a tempestuous relationship with the music giant.

via TRENT REZNOR – REZNOR URGES MUSICIANS TO DITCH LABELS.

I couldn’t agree with this more. It is nice to see him leading the way to a better music industry.

Top Five Web Design AIR Apps | Devlounge.

Franken wins by 312.

via Daily Kos: State of the Nation.

It is about time for the MN race to be resolved. Glad to see Franken win!

via The Raw Story | Obama Administration quietly expands Bush’s legal defense of wiretapping program.

This is a bullshit. The opposite should be happening.

thinking there’s not a whole lot to say anymore now that people listen & she has to make sense…

great mix of blues, the background draws your eye the the blue flower

via What Alabamians and Iranians Have in Common.

Adoption of Subversion is accelerating in the Mac OS X community. Here on openCollabNet, Mac OS X users and developers can get Subversion binaries, community support resources, free downloads that extend Subversion for enterprise deployments, and information about Subversion services from CollabNet.

via Apple – CollabNet collabXchange.

If your planning on using SVN on Mac,  this is the best binary available .

via Once the Stimulus Kicks In, the Real Fight Begins – washingtonpost.com.

great article on the state of our economy

Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful!

via Twistory.

This seems like it might be useful to some people who use twitter a lot, like even businesses.

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Socialcast helps your employees communicate more effectively by creating private, online communities for businesses of all sizes. Our on-demand software helps you quickly and easily share questions and ideas, find information, resources, and collaborate in real time.

via Socialcast.

Sounds like a great service for companies.

WP-FacebookConnect adds Facebook functionality to WordPress using the Facebook Connect APIs. It provides single sign-on, avatars, and News Feed publication of comments.

via WP-FBConnect – Facebook Developers Wiki

So this is how Techcrunch and others are allowing people to comment with their facebook account. Its nice to see that its open source. Looks like the installation is fairly manual, but that shouldn’t be a problem for most people.

I found this plugin that might also be good. Facebook Connect WordPress Plugin.

No one doubted Microsoft’s MSFT Xbox 360 would outsell Sony’s SNE PS3 over Christmas. The question was how bad the drubbing would be.

Today, via stats from the NPD Group, we know: In the US, Microsoft outsold the PS3 by just shy of 2-to-1, selling 1.44 million consoles to Sony’s 726,000.

via Sony’s Sinking Ship Takes On More Water: Xbox Outsells PS3 2-To-1 Over Christmas.

I know we bought twice as many Xbox’s as PS3′s this holiday season (1 to 0). :P

Code complete for html

No code complete for php

It looks awesome and it has code complete for html. However there is no php code complete. It says there is php code assist which I thought that this was. Also Aptana is built on PDT and has php code complete, so you would figure that it would be found in the PDT.

Maybe there is a setting or something. I tried to enable it. I have gotten used to not having code complete with Textmate, so its not that a big deal. The other features are impressive enough to use it. I’m getting sick of having to deal with textmate’s invisible temporary files that showup in svn.

If someone knows how to get code completion working for PDT please let me know. I don’t think I should (or work) have to pay aptana $100 just to have code completion.

I downloaded a stable version of 2.1, but didn’t get a chance to try it this morning. Ended up redownloading the Zend version of PDT that comes with a debugger, since that might come in handy. So now we have 3 different versions of PDT on our file server at work.

The other thing that may be possible that is the javascript interface is making it easier for the spammers.

So I noticed that a good portion of this wordpress spam is now coming from kaboodle.com. The spammers are using a url shortening service relurl.com that doesn’t have a method for blacklisting people. Thinking about adding kaboodle to my blacklist.

Maybe I just had it configured differently. I spent a good deal of time screwing with intense debate trying to get it configured properly.

I also noticed a crap load of spam via trackbacks since installing intense debate. If I could cut down the trackback spam it would eliminate most of the spam. I don’t see a way to do this. I have enabled “must be intense debate user” to see if that helps.

Intense debate spam filter suxors!
/sigh

Looks like they screwed up some CSS in the admin panel of the new version. (1.2.0.1)

So I noticed it was working on my wordpress.com blag. And after a little detective work I noticed that the only reason was because of some CSS in the style sheet.

p img {
max-width:100%;
padding:0;
}

So if the problem I described bugs you also you can use the css above to fix it. It is not the ideal solution, but until the media settings are working right it will at least make things easier.

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