Author Archive
Scott’s Bots – Back to custom code.
I enjoy WordPress for ScottPreston.Com, but for Scott’s Bots.Com, I’ve decided to go with my own custom version of the web site.
The reason is that I wanted to do too many things with the site and was forced to look for so many so-so plug-ins. So rather than do that I just coded what I [...]
The Resistance – The Reason Why You’re Stuck.
I recently read a post over at ZenHabits, that resonated with me. It was a guest post by Seth Godin which talked about a term coined by Steven Pressman, called “the resistance”.
The resistance is that little voice in the back of your head, the one that tells you that it will never work, the one [...]
Programmer Productivity
What makes a programmer productive?
There are lots of ideas about this and I have a few of my own. I have read some interesting articles and books on Pareto’s Law (The 80/20 Rule) and am finding that most productivity comes from just a few things.
3 Most Effective
The Language – The language you choose to do [...]
A Memory Leak Windows 7 – NVIDIA Drivers!
I have been seeing the memory in my system slowly approach close to 4GB while my Resource Monitory only has about 1GB in use as part of the “Working Set” I then saw a note that talked about the video drivers and I started to connect the two.
It seems that the NVIDIA driver for my [...]
Is Your Niche Too Small?
So you want to create a niche market because you read the Four Hour Workweek or are starting a business. You’ve done the following:
Listed your passions.
Listed the things your good at.
Consolidated the list and started to test.
Then you found out all the stuff you like or are good at doesn’t have the best performing indicators. [...]
CodeMash 2010 – Arrival and Introduction
I arrived last night around 8pm. The drive was much much better than last year. The usually gang was out and I did not get to bed until late, and of course I was up early for the keynote.
CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies, and technology trends in [...]
My Do Not List (!To-Do)
I’ve been working lately on creating a DO NOT LIST, my first few items are below:
Do not multi-task, I find that when I do this I end up doing all items half-a$$ed.
Do not check email and Google reader all the time. I’ve found this tough to do, I think it’s because I’m so conditioned to [...]
WordPress and CodeMash 2010
I’m actually happy converting back to WordPress, the number of plugins have saved me boat-loads of time. I’ve got an issue with the way it stores data, but I need to let that go so I can focus on adding content to my site.
I’m also heading to CodeMash 2010 in a few days. I admit [...]
Back To WordPress and Laptop Back From Dell
I enjoyed working on my own blog for a bit, but decided it’s better to create content than program something that’s pretty much perfected.
I also got my Dell Latitude E6400 back from dell after only 1 week at the depot. So far, so good. I wish I had sent it in earlier.
Windows, Apache, PHP, MySQL and libmysql.dll
It seems like everytime I install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, PHP, MySQL) environment and I install php via the .zip file, I run into the same problems viewing PHPMyAdmin because it say's “Cannot load mysql extension.” So I did this to help me remember and hopefully help you out.
Configure php.ini
add this to httpd.conf “PHPIniDir “C:/php/php.ini””
un-comment [...]