2009 Summer Movies: May Edition

It’s that time of year again, summer movie time! While the season is technically still spring, that doesn’t stop the major studios from pumping out their biggest releases.
Current Releases: May Edition
Although I’m not a huge movie buff, I still enjoy catching the big releases. Since I’ll be seeing most of the popular movies this summer, [...]

Google Mentions Google Analyticator

In a proud moment for me, Google wrote about Google Analyticator on their Analytics blog and featured the plugin in their examples page today.
For those of you who don’t know, Google Analyticator was the first WordPress plugin I wrote, and practically one of the first major PHP projects I undertook. Since handing the plugin off [...]

My Sixth Semester as a Penn State IST Student

In recent weeks I’ve been asked by several of my friends what I thought of this past semester of college. I have not talked about my education for a while, so I figured I would take the opportunity to catch everyone up on this past semester and my degree as a whole.
For those of you [...]

Managing Mass Amounts of Digital Media

As you may know, I’m a bit of a pack rack when it comes to digital media. I save almost every single TV show and movie that I download. The end result is for nearly any show I watch (24, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, etc), I can watch any episode on demand.
As you can imagine, storing [...]

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gdgt live’s Improved Live Coverage System

At 1pm EST today, gdgt live will be providing live coverage of Apple’s WWDC 2009. The live coverage will be delivered on a greatly improved system developed by Spiral Web Consulting. If you are interested in Apple’s event or just want to see what Spiral Web Consulting is up to, be sure to check it [...]

Why #spymaster is Twitter’s Problem

Eston Bond, a Spymaster developer, explains why #spymaster notifications are not spam and are really a problem with the Twitter platform itself. I completely agree with him. Twitter needs a way to filter messages, and if they don’t provide this support soon, client developers will.

New Features in WordPress 2.8

WordPress 2.8 is due any week now, and op111.net has a great rundown of all the new features available in the update. This doesn’t even include the new functionality available to plugin/theme developers.

How Not to Receive Email

In a stupid mistake caused by switching web hosts, I found out today that Spiral Web Consulting’s contact form was broken since May 2, 2009. The issue has now been resolved, and I’m hoping anyone who used the contact form will resend their message.

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