In San Jose for 360Flex
I’m in San Jose at the moment for the 360Flex conference at eBay’s headquarters. The event is going to run from Monday through Wednesday. NPOWR is going to be looking for Flex/Flash talent, so make sure to say hello!
StimTV/NPOWR wins an Emmy!
I found out last night that my company, NPOWR Digital Media, has won an Emmy! It’s great to finally see that the technology I’ve been pouring blood, sweat, and tears into for the past year has finally received recognition and validation. The company itself has been building the idea for at least five years now, [...]
KhmerConnection moved from Lunarpages
A week after moving KhmerConnection to Lunarpages, we started experiencing major problems. It turns out we were moved to an over saturated server (constant loads of 6-12 on a dual CPU system) and they blamed KC for consuming excessive resources (5% CPU/Memory, their “maximum allowed” is 1% CPU/Memory which is ridiculous given the amount of [...]
KhmerConnection moved to Lunarpages
Some of you might have noticed that KC was down for a couple hours over the recent holiday. This is because I have moved KC to a new host. After much searching, evaluation, and comparison, Lunarpages came out on top as the better hosting provider. They do regular nightly backups of all their servers and [...]
On Search and Rescue and Mobile Phones
It seems there have been a number of search and rescue stories lately. Many of you have probably heard of the sorrowful story of James Kim and his family. Now there’s another search and rescue operation in Oregon in which three climbers have become lost in the mountains of Oregon.
In both cases, cell phone signals [...]
Code folding in VIM 6.0+
Here’s a neat little feature I’ve just been introduced to. After coding in VIM for so many years, one might think I’d know these things, but as it turns out, there’s a lot of features in VIM I’m not using. This one, however, will likely be a time-saver. There are a number of different code [...]
Forcing an SSL Redirect in Apache
If you’ve ever needed to ensure that users are accessing a folder using SSL, you can use the following mod_rewrite snippet to achieve this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
Leveraging Google Mail’s Spam Filter
I’ve noticed that my Google Mail account has been doing a great job of filtering spam mail, nabbing e-mail that SpamAssassin hasn’t been able to tag so I figured I might just use Google Mail as the filtering engine for all my mail. What I have done is forward all my e-mail addresses and aliases [...]
GoDaddy Exercises Questionable Domain Backorder Practice?
I’m not really sure where to begin with this one. Today, I got an e-mail from one WebnameSolution suggesting a ransom for a domain name I had backordered from GoDaddy.com. Herein lies the e-mail:
Limited Time Offer…!!!
The domain name [deleted] is for sale exclusively by webnamesolution.com. Hurry and take advantage of this limited time special offer [...]
Full Screen Flash 9
Adobe has finally released a full-screen capable Flash player! Get the scoop about it here. I’ve already implemented a test version in the StimTV player and it rocks! No more funny window javascript required now.
It works fine with SWFObject using the following code:
1so.addParam("allowFullScreen", "true");
