Category: Technical

 

HD Video: Bavarian Yule and The Black Orchid Club

Posted Dec. 17, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

Every Wednesday Suzanne Long (Manager, Forbidden Island) unveils an all-new cocktail of her own creation—served that night only and never again at Forbidden Island. For showing up and ordering the drink, you get a limited-edition collector's card, and at the end of the 13 weeks, there are prizes to be won.

No more AIM

Posted Sept. 10, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

I meant to write this article about a month ago, but I've been too swamped to get it out.

Long story short: I'm done with AIM.

A part of me is amazed that the protocol has stuck around as long as it has, and another part is surprised I've stuck with it.

In truth, I hardly know ...

Categories: PersonalTechnical
Tagged: googlepersonal

XFN Relationship Tags For Designers and Businesses

Posted June 11, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

I've decided to start adding rel="designer" to the little "Designed by" links that go into sites I work on. That's right.

As the whole XFN movement continues to grow (slowly), I can't help but notice that there's no place in the spec for businesses. Identity is just as crucial for businesses as it is for ...

Great Design: StackOverflow.com

Posted May 31, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

I've known about stackoverflow.com for a while... anybody that uses Google as their reference for coding lands on solutions there pretty regularly.

I signed up as a user two days ago after learning more about them at Google I/O and I have to say, there are are some excellent design features at work on their site.

  1. They ...

Google Wave announced at Google I/O 2009

Posted May 28, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

At the keynote this morning, Google announced a brand new product that they're calling Wave which is flat out amazing.

Imagine combining gmail, chat, and docs and turning them into one all-encompassing real-time collaborative tool. Yeah, that's just the beginning.

Everyone invited to the Wave can edit simlutaneously without conflicts.

All the changes appear on everyone's screen ...

Categories: BusinessTechnical

Installing Apache, PHP and CURL on Windows

Posted March 23, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

I got tired of having to upload every little change to the code of my web designs to the server to see if they even work at all, so I decided I'd run a local web server with PHP on my computer. If they ran Linux, this would be extremely simple. Unfortunately, I run Windows XP on both my ...

Categories: Technical
Tagged: apachecurlphptech tipsweb design

Asterisk PBX

Posted March 11, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

Useful tricks in Asterisk and some troubleshooting suggestions for the amazingly customizable (and frustrating) PBX system.

Categories: Technical
Tagged: asterisktech tips