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posted February 24th, 2010

One of the most apparent aspects of both my professional and personal life is that I am always learning. As my friends and family can tell you, I constantly have my nose in something and am very eager to share what I just learned. As I have written about what I have learned here, I have realized that I have been holding back on something important: how do I choose what I want to learn next.

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Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by Simon on July 9th, 2010

This is great, thanks so much for posting. I was having problems using the wp_enqueue_script('media-upload'); - I was getting the properly sized editor but my custom

Apache Optimization and NGINX

by John Hoff on June 2nd, 2010

Tom, Two other reasons besides mod_php quickly come to mind on why I use prefork apache--mod_perl and mod_python. The solution of using NGINX as a

Apache Optimization and NGINX

by Tom D on June 2nd, 2010

Hi, Thanks for a good article. I realize most people use apache prefork because of thread safety issues with worker (or more likely because that's how

Wordpress Custom Field Search Plugin

by Tom Lany on May 28th, 2010

Thanks for sharing this! I have been needing some way to search through authors (that I store in custom fields) for along time, and

Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by John Hoff on April 17th, 2010

The media-upload script needs to be called before wordpress starts sending content to the browser. By the time it starts parsing banner.php, it is

Tag: game

Fun & Games, News & Events

OmniSomnia Development Takes Off!

posted February 26th, 2009 by John Hoff

The Braindonor Network loves games…from pen-and-paper RPGs to Wii Bowling. When we get bored with the standard fare, we often engage in "Wouldn't it be cool if…" conversations. OmniSomnia is one of those extended conversions being converted into a reality.

Tags: game, OmniSomnia

Fun & Games

Fun With Physics

posted November 24th, 2008 by John Hoff

Flash based-games can be extremely entertaining when you are looking to kill some time. This is even more true for me when the games are physics-based puzzles. Throw into the mix the ability to share your solutions, and create custom levels, and you have a recipe for success. Because of that, Fantastic Contraption has gotten both my attention and my dollars.

Tags: flash, game