My app is taking a life of its own. I am working on picking the perfect domain for this, and when I do you can see it in action.
Here’s what it is: A mashup of Google Maps and USPS (UPS and FEDEX are the first slated improvements). It is 100% AJAXified and really quite cool. [...]

SitB & R is obviously in its infancy, and I am not doing a whole lot to facilitate its growth. It occurred to me recently that there is not even a real human side to these blog posts or this site. Few really know who this is writing. I have been thinking about the difference [...]

I was looking at my webstats today and saw I was visited by a crawler. GREAT I thought. I expected to see Google or Yahoo pop-up when I went to see which crawler it was, but a curious name - Pingdom - popped up. I went to see what this was all about [...]

Take a look at this awesome new clock! How would you like to have this on you kitchen wall? PolarClock

As I promised I am working on my latest web app for release hopefully before the holidays. Not going into it too much it is a mashup of USPS and Google Maps.
This has been my first true mashup and it is like learning a whole new language, or several. For this I have had to [...]

This is what we all need to be making and dreaming about! Pretty cool

In Advertising everybody has their ‘Book,’ or so I’m told. In addition to having a book we are also encouraged to keep an idea book where all of our greatest, worst and most inspiring ideas are kept. The idea books that i have come across are a combination of coffee stains and chicken scratch, but [...]

What is the difference between a class and an ID in CSS? Both seem to behave identical, but they have different uses. A good coder knows when and how to use each one.
IDs:

Can only be used once on a page
Can be used with a class for the same element
Used to identify one and only one [...]

so as far as I can tell I am the first person at the University of Oregon to successfully install, setup, and run mysql and wordpress on their UOregon account. So that being said this post is intended to outline step by step the process so most people can do it themselves. Please leave comments [...]

In an ideal world I would have found a Wordpress image captions plugin that just worked the way I wanted - not a perfect world I guess. Last night I struggled with Javascript and edited wp-lightbox2 so it would display any image with a link having a title attribute as a caption. This is lightweight [...]