Passing Wind: 10 Ways to Improve Wind Mobile
We have terrible telco choices in Canada: either get wallet-raped by the big three, or endure shockingly awful service from one of the new entrants.
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Cracking Into Your VirtualBox Windows 7 VM When You’ve Forgotten the Password
Wherein our hero finds his way back to the bosom of Redmond, using nothing but open source software.
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What’s Been Happening – Feb 2015 Edition
I’m finished at TorStar. But still very busy. Contracts various and sundry, and side projects coming out the wahzoo; including some computer art.
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PhotoQ Be Gone
How to remove PhotoQ from your WordPress install, and still retain the posts. Complete with the free conversion script.
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HotDocs, Aaron Swartz and Cory Doctorow
My friend Mariann has been an avid promoter and attendee of Toronto’s HotDocs festival, lo these many years. So it was no surprise when she called to recruit me to be part of her entourage while attending said festival. I had, in fact, discussed one of this year’s selections with colleagues at my new place…
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Learning the Radio Alphabet
Last year I was taken with a sudden and feverish desire to master what some call the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. You know: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, for ABC. Except a phonetic alphabet is, in fact, something else; it’s a notational standard for the representation of a language. It’s about how to pronounce the language. By contrast,…
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Alfred’s JavaScript Notes: Arrays
I’m sick of going looking for this information across the web when I need it. So I’m putting it all together in one place. This is for my own use, but you’re welcome to reference it as well, if you find it useful. Just so it’s been said: the canonical online reference (IMO) is the…
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Sabre Web Services in PHP
I’ve been on contract for the past couple of months at a lovely company up in Newmarket, called Solutions360. I’m part of a team working on a system for the travel industry. So we’re deep into API’s for hotels, flights, cruises and such. Listing, booking, cancelling have been our constant concerns for weeks now. My…
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aaLog: A Logging Class for PHP
Over the years of learning the many and various skills necessary for being a well-versed web developer, you find a number of tools to help you get things done. Sometimes you have to build those tools for yourself. There are any number of logging solutions out there, but I decided to build my own for…
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AirHogs.com is Live!
I was lucky enough to be selected to work on the build of the Air Hogs website redesign at Proximity Canada. We had a terrific team, and the build went fairly smoothly; especially considering it was my first time using the ExpressionEngine CMS. I’m enormously proud of this project, so with your kind indulgence I’m…
