The Code Cave

Well, it looks like I’m guest hosting again!

It went something like this: Be sure to join me live tonight at 9pm Eastern at http://www.RhettAndLink.com/live

Skype Tips: Skype Groups and Shared Groups (video)

This is one of the must usful features when using skype for business. Especially with an organization the size of b5media. I use shared groups to deploy blogger skype contacts to all of the b5media bloggers, the b5media Toronto Office and b5media Tech Team amoungst others. The blogger group is great becase when [...]

Favorite Windows Vista Features: Open Dialog Internet Integration

Ok everyone loves to bash Vista. It’s the in thing. I get it. I run vista with the User Access Control (UAC) turned off. Once that is done, it is modern version of Windows XP with some nice features built in. Now some of these have been made available in a [...]

My ABSOLUTE favorite commercial: Reluctantly helping my friend to move

I have been here. I know what both of them are feeling. “I forgot all about the air hockey table…. ***aaaaaaahhhhhhhh***” (It would have been so easy to drive overtop of my friend’s little Saturn when she was lead the moving van I was driving through the old brick streets of Pittsburgh’s south hills… It was sooo [...]

I co-host WordPress Podcast - Episode 43: Out of date blogs hacked, All-In-One SEO, Crazyhorse, HyperDB

This is actually my second time co-hosting the WordPress Podcast. Episode 42 had unexpected delays in post production and much to my own chagrin, I suggested that it was perhaps a but too dated and should be re-recorded. It saddens be because 42 was such a perfect number to join the podcast on… But now with [...]

WordPress 2.6 - Causing waves on Mars: The XMLRPC controversy

WordPress 2.6 has been been trouble. There’s been confusion about whether it would be out in July or August. There was one date in the road map, and one in Trac. On Sunday night, Charles Stricklin and I recorded episode 43 of The WordPress Podcast and I stuck with the August date that was in [...]

Ball Girl: How to spot a fake

You’ve probably seen this by now and I’ll admit I watched it a few times to help me decide whether or not it was fake or not. Here, I’ll let you have a go at it to see if you can spot anything, I keyed in on the obvious, from my perspective. I’ve never seen someone [...]

Skype Tip: Please help end the Skype nightmare (video)

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Live from SxSW:Geolocation in games and Online

I am at SxSW for a week and the introduction of this session was so incredible I thought I would live blog it and share my notes: SxSW using geolocation in games and online (03/08/2008) 11:48 So here I am at SwSW at the second session I’ve hit for the day. and So far this is a blast 11:49 This [...]

On Image Use and Death of the Mouse Plus 70

I was involved in an email discussion this morning and once again I realized that I’ve transferred my creative energies from writing new and interesting blog articles over to email discussions and forum posts. So I’m sharing this with you and will hit post instead of send. (Oh and btw make sure to save as [...]

You learn something new every day: 404.html file size issues?

I found this in a friend’s 404.html file: < !-- - Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new - “feature” to Internet Explorer. If the text of - an error’s message is “too small”, specifically - less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer returns - its own [...]

Tip Tuesday: Manipulating Graphics files for your blog

When working with graphics files on your blog, it is always smart to optimize their size for their targetted use. A simple corner picture does not need an original size of 8.1 mega pixels. On a windows machine, MS Paint can handle that sort of transformations, with a little pain and bloodshed. [...]

A Random Utter from the Laser Tag Arena

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52 in 52: Book 2 Island of the Blue Dolphins

This book truely earned it’s newbury prize. What’s wonderful about it is that I found out after reading it that it was a true story. It’s a quick, really easy read that should keep you company for an evening. Mobile post sent by BrianLayman using Utterz. Replies. mp3

A new way to support your in-laws

It’s happened to you. You know it has. You were just starting to relax when the phone rings. It’s you father/mother/in-laws/girl who you knew in highschool that kept asking for your new number each time you moved. And they, sounding kind of guilty, say “I’m having a problem and I was wondering if you could [...]

52 in 52 Book 1: Lyon’s Pride

This is a review of Lyon’s Pride by Anne McCaffery. It is the fourth book in the Rowan/Tower series. Continuing the story of the grand children of The Rowan and Jeff Raven. Book 1 of (at least) 52 for me. Mobile post sent by BrianLayman using Utterz. Replies. mp3

Ready for 2008

Hey all, The b5media.com tech team and myself are back and ready to roll in 2008!Mobile post sent by BrianLayman using Utterz. Replies. mp3

52 books in 52 Weeks

I’ve recommended Rob Miller’s plugins before. I’ve had his Now Reading plug in installed on this blog for a while but some how, in a way neither of us understood, the authors and the titles got mixed beyond my desire to fix. While browsing his blog, I came across a 52 books in 52 weeks [...]

Happy New Year everyone…

Please excuse the dust as I fiddle with a few things here!

Eliminating duplicate WordPress content in Google

If you are at WordCamp 2007, one of the best sessions was Google’s own Matt Cutts discussion on optimizing your WordPress blog. You can see the whole presentation over on John Pozadzides site’s One Man’s Blog. Here is the link. You can see in Matt’s Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers slide show [...]

Today is blog action day. 8 green tips even a geek can follow

Today is blog action day and a good reason to get another post up. Blog action day is all about promoting the idea of being “green”. The concept of being green has been interestingly twisted over the recent years in the political realm. Weird things have happened as the left and right [...]

Welcome home, Seargant Armstrong, from your second tour in Iraq

Today’s post is a tribute to my brother in law Trevor. He’s recently returned from his second tour in Iraq. This time with the 298 Sandbandits, a transportation unit out of Pennsylvania. My sister and two little nephews were there to welcom him back. While his unit is a reserve unit, Trevor is regular army, one [...]

PHPMyAdmin announces drop of PHP 4 support.

I was just over at the PHPMyAdmin site and saw this quote: Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.11, which will probably be the last series supporting PHP 4. Notice the ”probably” stuck in there. They are testing the waters. If phpMyAdmin is dropping the whole PHP 4 line, it just might push the WordPress adoption time a bit further. Where phpMyAdmin goes, I have to think, the ISPs will not be slow to follow.

New keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista

OK this is a MAJOR shout out to Daniel Wischnewski for teaching me some new keyboard shortcut. Did you know that the first ten (upper) programs in the Quick Launch area are accessible with the [Win]+[1] through [Win]+[0] key combos? For example in my setup [Win]+[1] is ZTreeWin. [Win]+[4] is the Vista Snipping Tool (C:\Windows\System32\SnippingTool.exe Try it!!!). [Win]+[0] is the DOS prompt. Pretty cool Eh? Do you know all of my icons? What do you keep on your quick [...]

TheCodeCave.com is back

Hi all! Remember me? I’m the guy that pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth back in May! I have been THOROUGHLY enjoying my new job at b5media. And there’s been soooooo much to do at b5 that I’ve not been taking the time I should have been taking to visit with you guys. When [...]