Today I get this lovely email from google telling me all about the availability of the new Google+ Platform API. So naturally I have to check it out! For a while I have been using facebook and twitter feeds as simplistic blogs for some of my sites, but for my personal site, I would love to just use Google+. I've created a simple example of how to setup and read your own public Google+ feeds. Enabling API access and getting your API Key Head over to the APIs Console. Select Services…

So since I installed OSX Lion ive been having this crazy issue where editing a file in nano or vi would sometimes skip characters, or shuffle them around, particularly when I hit backspace. I would then save the file and open it and it would look nothing like what i entered. There is a solution!

I recently stumbled upon the site Server Density while upgrading all my servers and signed up for the service. It as a great pretty interface, a customizable dashboard, and pretty extensive alert capabilities. They also have a free trial so I suggest signing up. The one thing I did not like was the inability to scan for a specific string on the website to confirm if the website is still operational, like with host-tracker.com. The good news is Server Density allows you to create python…

Finally, after six years, I found an affordable host thats slightly faster than my box I built in 2005 then. goodbye cPanel -- hello vm. I curently have hosting accounts with Dreamhost, Media Temple, Linode, and Rackspace Cloud, though I wont get into that right now. For now lets focus on how to get all those cPanel accounts from my other box into one of my new CentOS vms. For these I will be using no admin panel of any kind, no webmin, VHCS, WHM, or cPanel. I simply dont need it as its just…

I have had so many problems with Lion, one of which is it keeps indexing spotlight. This sucks when i need something to actualy run. So ... lets disable it!

One of the most common gestures i used to use is the 3 finger back and forward swipe on web pages, to navigate through my history. By default in lion, it changes this to a 2 finger gesture, but only works in safari. chrome is only set up to listen for the three finger gesture, and ONLY if you set up your system preferences to use three finger swipes instead of two. However, on my system three finger swipe was crashing every program. after a little digging it seemed it was some wierd system…

the other day when my computer booted up it gave me a nice NØ symbol telling me the kernel was mesed up. thanks to the help of the tech guys at luma we booted up in firewire transfer mode, removed my trim support, and it all rebooted fine. last night however, i didn't change anything, rebooted because my battery died, and was once again greeted with Ø. now i've had alot of issues with lion so far, and only a few things positive, what was i realized when about to boot into my…

The Facebook Open Graph protocol is a simple and great way to add meta data to your existing webpages. It basically turns your external pages into a Facebook page! It's important to display the right information on a per page basis, whether that be a description, image, video, or song. By adding additional information to your headers, you can change the title, url, share image, and even add media like videos and music. Open graph optimization is an important skill to understand, regardless of…

The Facebook Open Graph protocol is not just a great way to access data remotely on Facebook, but also a really easy way to add meta data to your existing webpages. By adding additional information to your headers, you can change the title, url, share image, and even add media like videos and music. Open graph optimization is an important skill to understand, regardless of your Facebook implementation. Register Your App (website) http://developers.facebook.com/setup/ Registering your…

One problem I always have with mobile development is making images load faster. Having lots of images can make the page extremely slow, and with the iphone 4 using double rez images, its even slower. Theres a couple steps to take to optimize the images.