New Toy: BT Omega

March 5, 2011

A friend of mine that I got paintballing with helped set me up with all my own gear. No more borrowing, woot! I picked up a BT Omega marker. It is really sweet and fires the paint smooth and FAST. I wanted a 3 round burst option but in the end I liked this marker

Retaining PHP settings on Windows Azure from your local development environment

March 2, 2011

Newer Note: The Interoperability Team at Microsoft has annouced a new version of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP which contains a set of shiny new command line tools and has deprecated the Windows Azure PHP Command-line Tools project. See http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com for documentation on the new SDK tools   I ran into an interesting little

Generating Certificates for use with the Windows Azure Management API

February 8, 2011

Windows Azure has a great Management API that service owners may use to perform tasks such as listing storage instances, viewing web roles, and collecting service statistics. In order to use the Management API the service owner must first create a digital certificate and upload it using the Windows Azure Portal (NOTE: I am using

Firefox: This address is restricted

February 2, 2011

During some development works recently I ran into this message: The address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection. Thanks Firefox, glad for your concern, but I actually need to view content on that port. Luckily there is a simple

Watch out for Base 64 Hacks!

January 22, 2011

I recently had a client call me and tell me their site was linking to a spam site from a Google search. Turns out that searching for their company name from several major search engines took users to the spam site, however typing the URL in directly revealed the site properly. After a bit of