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Going corporate and missing the rat race…ain’t so bad
This month (January 2011) marks one year since my official departure from the rat race of the freelance world. It was a decision that I didn’t take lightly nor did I make quickly. I did my homework on...
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Want more followers? Shut the hell up.
About two or three weeks ago I decided I was going to tweet WordPress and related news stories every few hours for 5 days straight.I lost 15 or 20 followers in that time.The last two days, I’ve tweeted...
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Marilyn Monroe and Orange Juice
Last week my wife and I watched The Seven Year Itch with Marylin Monroe and Tom Ewell. The movie was set in the mid-50′s. The plot centered around the women and children being sent out of the city and...
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Headway 3.0 Walk Through
Headway 3.0 is out, and I got my hands on it which introduces a whole new visual editor. Clay and the gang have really outdone themselves here, because using the editor is stupid easy.Layout EditorThe...
View ArticleDJ Rotator For WordPress
No custom post types or meta boxes here! This is a stand alone plug-in which gives you all the control you need to show which DJ is currently on the air.FeaturesIn-line image uploads and real-time...
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Worst I’ve Ever Seen: Smokers Computer with 41GB of crap
As engineer at a radio station, co-workers often bring me their home computers for fixing. Windows was in a constant state of reboot when I got it. Opened the case to find some yummy smoke caked onto...
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Worst I’ve Ever Seen: The Inside Of Another Smokers Computer
I’m told he smokes Marlboro Reds.
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Amazon AWS Lowers It’s Simple Storage Prices
From Amazon:We are excited to announce that we have reduced the Amazon S3 standard storage prices in all regions. With this price change, all Amazon S3 standard storage customers will see a reduction...
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Using GitHub – a quick, no nonsense guide
The following commands are basically notes to myself. I’m frustrated by the abundance of Git tutorials that speak in tongues. I’m your average Web Developer with some PHP and CSS knowledge. I use...
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Web Typography Using The Golden Ratio and REM’s
WordPress 3.5 beta 1 was released a couple weeks ago, and it included the new Twenty Twelve theme. While looking at style.css, I noticed they’re using “REM” to set font sizes and margins. I had NO idea...
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Solid State Drive (SSD) vs. Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
My PC isn’t anything fancy anymore…but back in early 2008? It was screaming. Over the years, I’ve upgraded the RAM and Video Card. Today was the single most impressive performance boost I’ve ever...
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Sass on Windows or Mac with the Free Scout App
The command-line isn’t for everyone. Thankfully, the folks at Mutually Human Software wrote a free Windows and Mac app named “Scout”. Scout not only comes with Ruby and Sass, but the Compass Framework...
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Golden Ratio Typography for Sass
The purpose of Sass is to write CSS code, but like a programmer. Why pour through your style-sheet setting font sizes and line-heights both arbitrarily and repeatedly? I wanted to create a @mixin that...
View ArticleI blew up my site. Deal with it.
Since August 27, 2007 I’ve been chained to my very “How To” centric blog. For 5 years, 8 months, and 21 days 90% of my content has been about how to help others “do things” with code. The other 10%...
View ArticleLiving Next Door To The Ex-Wife
In January 2010, I started my new gig as Chief Engineer at Bluewater Broadcasting. The new job required me to move to Montgomery, Alabama (about 2 hours from my son Chase). It’s been a very difficult 3...
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Microphone Shootout: Behringer B-1 vs Neumann TLM 103
I’m a 15 year radio veteran. I’ve seen the debate between high-end and low-end microphones both in-person and on message boards. Usually, the argument ends with snide comment like: “The Behringer is...
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Just installed: Venue SC48 @WiregrassChurch
Spent the afternoon getting this installed. It’s good to be back running sound! http://www.avid.com/US/products/sc48 The post Just installed: Venue SC48 @WiregrassChurch appeared first on Greg Rickaby.
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Yup, I think it’s time to ditch cable. Buh Bye Time Warner.
Most of you know we just moved. I was very happy with Charter in Montgomery. We had 3 brand-new HD-DVRs each with 1TB drives, 30/4Mbps un-throttled Internet that would burst to over 60Mbps, plus over...
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WordPress with Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.5. Plus, goodbye APC and MySQL
I run my own Amazon EC2 Instance. Why? Because, I’m a geek who likes to own his own data. Furthermore, I don’t need any hand holding or restrictions on what plugins I can install. If something breaks?...
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WordCamp Birmingham was…awesome
This was my second WordCamp (of any kind), the first being WordCamp San Francisco just a few weeks ago. I wanted to list out the key differences between camps: WCSF had somewhere between 800-1,000...
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