Category: General

You know how sometimes you have those awesome productive days? Well, mine has been one of those… Got up at 6:45am (yeah, thank my little boy for that one! :-P) and figured I might as well stay up, so unloaded the dishwasher, put in another load, cleaned the house from top to bottom, entertained friends for lunch, wrote my first...

Some little *insert a whole stream of expletives* has used my email address as the sender of a lot of spam.  I know this because opening my email box today resulted in no less than 400 failure notices, undelivered notices, auto replies and bounce messages. Needless to say; I was not the one sending you spam!

Someone exploited a hole in the version of WordPress that I Was using and managed to destroy my last post about automatically creating model for your Zend Framework app. Unfortunately, I just don’t think I have a recent backup of the database around so might not be able to recover it easily. This has forced me, of course, to update...

A few times I have been asked at work to decide on whether we should build an application or use something that’s out there already. Unfortunately, it’s never an easy choice for us… On the one hand something can be built that’s geared exactly to what is needed, but nothing else, and it’ll take time to plan, design and build...

A couple days ago I bought Portal via Steam, and even though it’s probably one of the shortest games I’ve played it is undoubtedly one of the best! The premise is pretty simple; solve puzzles by using the portals that you can shoot in to the floor, ceiling or wall and walk through (or in some cases, fall in to...