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June
2012
… And the Winner is Eco-Mami
As part of a promotion for the website (really just for my own entertainment) I had offered to help build or redesign a website for free. The winner is Eco-Mami! The prize is a redesign of the current Eco-Mami website. The site is about a green stay-at-home mom who shares simple and easy to follow […]
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Mar
2012
Free Website, Design and Development
I am looking for work to do with my Web Design / Development hobby and I need YOUR help. I’ve been trying to come up with web projects to do on my own and have fallen short. I’ve got a ton of web development experience and recently have been branching into the design aspect. I’ve […]
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Mar
2012
Web Hosting Lingo Made Easy: The Difference Between Name Servers, A Records, and CNAMEs
I run into this question every now and again and have recently run into this while helping my soon to be brother-in-law transfer his hosting of GarnerBrewing.com. Most people rarely adjust their hosting provider after its paid for, and even if they do, it’s rare that they change it more than once. So, its not […]
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Mar
2012
CSS Renders Differently In Different Environments
[UPDATE 08/18/2017] This post is slightly out of date and wanted to mention the link to the W3C Compliant website does not fully address accessibility. I would recommend using the following instead to ensure full accessibility for your website: http://wiht.link/html-guide [END UPDATE] When I was recently working on my personal website, johnzeren.com (still a work […]
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Jan
2012
SOPA Blackout – Wikipedia and Others Not So “Blacked Out”
On January 18th 2012, thousands of websites participated in a protest against anti-piracy legislation. The legislation that was trying to make it’s way through congress was the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), both aimed at reducing copyright infringement. However, many saw this legislation as an attack on the freedom […]
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Nov
2011
Java Exception Line Number is “Unknown Source”
The topic of this Issue Blog is in regards to getting an “Unknown Source” in place of a line number in a Java exception stack trace when being compiled by Apache Ant. I’ve come across this issue several times in the past but have never really given it much thought because I can usually pin […]
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Oct
2011
Issues Upgrading From SHA1 to SHA256
On a recent project I was asked to upgrade the security algorithm used from SHA1 to SHA256 The project was broken up into 2 code bases, the first being a Java code base which was used to communicate with Adobe LiveCycle ES2.5 and the second being a C# code based used to communicate with Microsoft […]
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Oct
2011
Reconfiguring NETGEAR Wireless Range Extender
About 2-3 years ago, my parents attempted to go completely wireless in their,at the time, new home. Because they’re home’s layout is so large, the signal from the wireless router that they had set up and configured on one end of the house, did not reach the other end of the house. In an attempt […]
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Oct
2011
Adding Driver for Linksys AE1000 Wireless USB on Linux
In my ongoing efforts to run as many things wireless as possible, I decided to buy a Wireless-N USB adapter for the old HP Desktop computer I have running upstairs. Because I am rather impulsive, once I had the idea in my head that I wanted to do this, I wanted to do it that […]
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