Sexy, Cheap and Easy: Not Your Mom, Your Wireframes
Posted on February 6, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
I’m a planning whore. It’s true. I’m one of those weirdos that really enjoys creating data flows, use cases, wireframes, and functional requirements documents. My bizarre predalictions aside, wireframes are a critical part of planning any website or web based application.
An Open Letter to Rackspace Cloud Hosting
Posted on January 28, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
I just received an automated email from Rackspace that made my brain melt. It’s no secret that a lot of websites have been hacked lately.
One thing they seem to have in common is that they’re all running Wordpress, and a lot of them are hosted at the Rackspace Cloud.
When Your Wordpress Blog Gets Hacked
Posted on January 25, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
It happens to most bloggers at some point – your Wordpress blog gets pwned, and you’re not sure where to even start. I’ve gone through this process enough times, helping friends restore their blogs after a hack that it seemed like it might be helpful if I wrote an article about it.
TehAwesome.Net Back Online
Posted on January 24, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Misc
Okay, so this is a bit of a shameless plug — oh godammit. PLUG. I said shameless PLUG. That’s it, I’m firing my image editor.
Unclutter Your Facebook Feed: Set FB Lite As Your Default
Posted on January 7, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Life Tools, Tips & Tricks
Whether you’re on Facebook for fun or for work, chances are your newsfeed is crammed full of inane application notifications that make it hard to actually find the real content you actually want to see from your friends.
Fixing Comment Count Bug in Disqus on Wordpress
Posted on December 31, 2009 by snipe in Web Development
My final post for 2009 should probably have been more climactic. If I had planned it right, the Death in the Digital Age post should have been my last for this year. Oh well.
Final Fail of the Year
Posted on December 31, 2009 by snipe in Misc
This is just a quickie to let you know that I haven’t been receiving notifications from Disqus about new comments pending approval. This is my own fault for reasons I’ll explain, but I’m working on replying to them all now.
Death in the Digital Age
Posted on December 31, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life, Life Tools, Web Development
Because it’s New Years Eve, and I’m kind of a morbid asshole, I thought I’d harsh your alcohol-induced buzz with some grim reality by asking the question: What happens to your online content when die?
The Perfect Geek Cocktail
Posted on December 22, 2009 by snipe in Geek Life
With the holiday season upon us, I thought it might be fun to highlight two posts that were simply made for each other that can add some spark to your geeky holiday plans.
Twitter Retweet Contests: Viral Marketing or Social Media Spam?
Posted on December 22, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Those of us who eat, sleep (and occasionally — oh nevermind) on Twitter have noticed an increase in the Twitter “RT Contests” being promoted by companies in an effort to leverage folks who want free shwag to whore out their promotion.
Twitter Gets Down to Business
Posted on December 15, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
Twitter has taken the first steps of what will no doubt be a long journey towards providing more native support for businesses using their micro-blogging platform by introducing the new (beta) Contributors feature.
