The one major complaint I’ve had with Aptana on OS X is that it’s super-slow. I’m running a 1.67GHz Powerbook w/ 2GB RAM and it still brings my system to a screeching hault. I’ve been digging around trying to allocate more memory to the Java VM and finally got it working today. [...]

Most of my friends and family know that I don’t dance. It’s something I could probably work on, but I’ve never put much time and energy into it. OfficeMax has put together an incredibly viral marketing campaign that has me dancing all over the place. I love this type of creativity and [...]

Let me start with a disclaimer that I’m not endorsing the distribution of YouTube videos in other video formats or even saving them to your computer. This was simply a proof of concept of taking a video from YouTube and having the ability to watch it offline. Also, with my never-ending quest [...]

This post is LONG overdue. I’ve been playing FFmpeg for a long time now and through trial and error, along with this page, figured out how to extract a JPG frame from a video at a specific time. A reader recently posted a question asking how to get this done and I hope [...]

I’ve had this idea for over a year now about the ability to share important locations with friends and family. Call it a digital canvas on a map that allows you to pinpoint a location, tell a story, and share photos for all to see. This stems from my passion for location based [...]

I must not be human because I failed the CAPTCHA test three times before getting my post to go through on a highly trafficked community site. I wanted to share a couple of the CAPTCHA challenges and have you tell me whether or not I’m blind. It’s gotta be the white text on [...]

I’m a Fireworks kinda guy since Photoshop tends to be overkill for most of the web stuff I do.  While I’m a huge fan of layers when doing any sort of graphic design I love using Fireworks frames to organize design elements (see image below).  This is not the intended use of frames, but I’ve [...]

This is a Ruby snippet that’s simple and something that I’ve found useful. When allowing users to enter multiline data in your web application, say through a textarea, there will most likely be line feeds. When a user hits the enter key they will expect the cursor to move to the next line. [...]

That’s pretty much my rule of thumb based on common sense, but I’m glad to see Jakob Nielsen has the numbers to back it up.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/screen_resolution.html
I love the quote in the article that says:
“anyone who makes at least $50,000 per year ought to have at least 1600×1200 screen resolution”
So what he’s saying is that you can [...]

Out of all the Firefox extensions I’ve used my recent favorite is FireBug. If you do any sort of web development then you NEED to get this extension. It consists mainly of a console, debugger, and DOM inspector. These are much needed tools for web application development. My favorite feature of [...]