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September 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blog News, Misc.

I know it’s been a while since I posted a new tutorial on this blog. The long and short of it is that I am finally officially matriculated into my graduate program so things have been rather hectic in my neck of the woods. I just completed my first week of classes and right now [...]

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Getting the Wireless Card to Work with Windows 7 on the Thinkpad T43p

July 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Misc., Tutorials

In this post I’m going to go a little off track and talk about non-web stuff   I recently decided to take my old IBM Thinkpad T43 and wipe it clean so I could test the Windows 7 RC OS on it. I have only now started playing with it and testing it. The first [...]

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Strengths and Pitfalls of Online Tutorials for Beginners (Developers/Programmers)

July 1st, 2009 · 9 Comments · Misc.

There is an abundance of information and tutorials out there to help any aspiring developer/designer learn from scratch how to do the things they want to learn to do.  Heck, here’s a lot of information out there to help you discover WHAT it is you want to learn to do . And the best things [...]

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Introducing the razorCMS Testing Pad

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Misc., PHP

After my post on flat-file content management systems, I learned about a new CMS that started out as a fork of the nanoCMS that I referenced in my earlier post. (You can read more about nanocms and flat-file systems here). smiffy6969, the creator of razorCMS, encouraged me to test his CMS to see how it [...]

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Guest post: Excel add-ins tutorial

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Misc., Tutorials

First, I would like to thank Mary for giving me this opportunity to introduce my first Excel add-in on her website. It is an excellent programming resource. My purpose in this blog entry is to describe the Data Filter Tool, an add-in I created for Microsoft Excel, as well as discuss some steps you can [...]

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