Want to use MongoDB but don’t want to switch to a more expensive hosting plan? This is a great alternative that I got working on Dreamhost in less than an hour!

I finally got around to redoing my portfolio and I think it’s a big improvement!

I’ve been doing a bit of Flixel (flash game library) programming lately, and to speed up the creation of games I created a Project Template for FlashDevelop that includes a MenuState, PlayState and Preloader. Download the template

Akismet is perhaps the most popular form of spam protection today. I made a form so you can see the sort of things that Akismet thinks is spam. Check it out.

Today is day 8 of my new sleep schedule and it’s going good so far. Here’s a summary of the week.

You know that energetic feeling you get after a great night of sleep? That is the time I tend to be most productive. In fact, I didn’t realize this until recently… but during the busiest times of my college career, I was actually a biphasic sleeper. I would get 6-7 hours of sleep at night and grab a ~30 minute nap sometime between lunch and dinner (the so called “siesta” time).

I decided to migrate one of my in-progress projects to the latest release of CakePHP (1.3). My experience was quick and painless, and perhaps this writing will benefit someone…

Check out the demo

This is an addition to my previous post to create a simple contact form. This post will utilize the Akismet service to classify some messages as spam.

This is something that every website should have, including my personal portfolio!

Youtube unveiled it’s new autocaptioning feature to the mainstream last week and well… it definitely needs work. Regardless, I found some hilarious ‘mis’-translations. For example, check out this video of earlymorningzombie.com’s review of the iMPROV boogie board. Here are some interesting/funny excerpts from the auto captioning: “So let me explain how this works hand into [...]