Lesson Re-learned: Backups !
I just shot my blog in the foot, or more accurately, I didn’t follow IT 101 and back things up...
How to Get a Google Voice Number for Your Own Email Address
If you want to use some Google services (like Google Voice), and have them associated with your own email address,...
Creating a New App (step 1)
I decided I’d walk through creating a new app to replace one I’ve used for years on my iPhone that...
Danger of Time Saving Tools
I was reminded a couple of days ago of the danger of using tools that help you to get things...
Moving to GMail on your iPhone
After moving from a hosted Exchange service to GMail, you need to set up your email client on the iPhone...
Eventbrite Calendar Feed
I volunteer and provide technical support for a few non-profits, one of which is the Project Management Institute San Francisco...
Changing a Web Site to use hosted WordPress
I got an email from my friend Athens who had just relaunched her web site at http://www.athenskconsulting.com/ but was now...
Unexpected Consequences – Jenkins and PHPUnit
I am a big fan of Test Driven Development (TDD) and tools like Hudson/Jenkins to automate the process of having...
JPA and Maven and multiple persistence units
I needed to convert an existing Netbeans build to use Maven in order to stabilize the code and support Test...
Java 7 and Mac OS X
After getting my new Mac Mini pretty well set up with my development tools, I started playing with Amazon AWS....