The time has come to switch my sites over to a virtual private server environment using the relatively new product from Rackspace called Rackspace Cloud which is akin to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud but provides better value in my opinion. Rackspace has great customer support and in general gives...

This recent comic from XKCD illustrates the recognition problems we, as programmers, can all relate to.

I’ve set-up a quick portal page for some of the java applets I’ve written for school. Please check it out: http://family-connect.com/javaApps/ I have a Memory Game and Wordscramble applet up at this time with details/instructions.

I’ve been wanting to create a simple program using my knowledge of Java that could encrypt text documents using an established cryptology standard. The result after a couple hours exploring the Java crypto library and coding work is the JVisual File Encryption! It is very basic and the functions...

I’ve stumbled upon a very useful site for free stock photographs at url: http://www.sxc.hu. SXC or StockXchange has hundreds of those stock business images that you would find on the multitude of e-commerce sites. I’m guessing that they are located in Hungary based on the hu tld but it could...

Acid3SafariTest, originally uploaded by kevin.roberts. With all the buzz surrounding Google Chrome and its ability to pass the Acid 3 test I just wanted to show that Safari can accomplish this as well. Since both browsers are based on the same application framework Webkit it doesn’t come as much...

I’m so glad to be on the threshold of developing business trends. During my stint at the Bradford Exchange I witnessed the role of instant messaging (IM) become more and more vital as my daily work communication tool. Our client of choice was Google Talk and it allowed me to communicate with my...

From my experience, search engine optimization is the dry and unappreciated aspect of web development. As such, I was very intrigued to read about online marketing specialist Charles “Chuck” Lewis who has taken the title of the one and only SEO rapper. His more famous rap “Design Coding”...

Mike On Ads developed this interesting algorithm that tries to determine your gender by analyzing your web browsing history. Very cool and eerily accurate in my case. Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 0% Likelihood of you being MALE is 100% Site Male-Female Ratio google.com 0.98 amazon.com 0.9 paypal.com 1.04 apple.com 0.89 dell.com 1.04 digg.com 1.56 shopping.com 0.96 cnet.com 1.56 com.com 1.41 gizmodo.com 2.08 lifehacker.com 1.63 newegg.com 2.23 slickdeals.net 1.27 kotaku.com 1.94 frys.com 1.6 engadget.com 1.7 joystiq.com 1.44 lenovo.com 1.67 valleywag.com 1.7 destructoid.com 2.17 ecogeek.org 2.45

Security researcher and network guru, Dan Kaminsky, uncovered a very serious Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerability about six months ago. A vulnerability that essentially affects the foundation of the Internet and would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web. With what is known as a DNS cache...