franzone.com - thoughts of a web geek franzone.com - thoughts of a web geek I'm a work from home web geek, a father of three, a husband, a World of Warcraft nerd, a martial arts practitioner, a musician and many other things. Product reviews, technical articles, April Fools posts, life stories, oh... and we have comics! Articles
AdaptiveBlue?s SmartLinks Are Live!
2007-10-25 16:25:00 AdaptiveBlue has been leading the way with cutting edge technologies that help you browse the web better and smarter. Not only that but they also provide tools for web content providers (ie bloggers) enabling them to give a more usable and informative experience to their audience. I was lucky enough to be included in the ... More About: Blogging , Live , Adaptive
Coding Properties? ?The Right Way?
2007-10-24 20:04:00 In object oriented programming there is the concept of classes and/or objects. These are nice encapsulated bits of code that allow one to store data and/or functionality. One of the ways to add data to an object is to give it some properties. The “right way” of doing this usually involves adding some private data ... More About: Coding , Properties , Prop , Pert , Rope
Blu-Ray Or HD-DVD? Why Not Both?
2007-10-23 19:37:00 Remember the good ole “dash” versus “plus” wars? I’m talking of course about the DVD-R versus DVD+R format wars for rewritable DVD media. Currently we have a similar war waging and that is between the Blu-ray ™ and HD DVD formats for high definition DVD media. It looks to me like it is going down ... More About: Technology , Entertainment , Toys
3rd Party Apps Coming To An iPhone Near You!
2007-10-22 21:09:00 iPhone SDK and Apple Finally Listening ? Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs just announced that Apple would (finally!) provide an iPhone SDK to 3rd party developers in order to enable them to create native applications for the iPhone (and, incidentally, also for the iPod touch). While the actual SDK won’t ship until February 2008, this announcement is ... More About: Party , Iphone
Google Version 2.0: Googzilla - The Calculating Predator
2007-10-22 20:58:00 Google Version 2.0: Googzilla - The Calculating Predator ? Google’s database inventions by themselves, according to Stephen E. Arnold, who has written a patent-centric study of the company, show that Google’s research unit has superseded Bell Labs and Xerox PARC as the place for technical innovation in the U.S., if not the world. The new study’s ... More About: News , Google , Internet
BlogRush Gives 10,000+ Blogs The Boot
2007-10-22 18:29:00 I just received an email this morning letting me know that I made the first round of cuts! What cuts? Well, I’m sure a lot of you fellow bloggers have heard of BlogRush by now. After the initial opening there were problems with people gaming or cheating their system. Of course they do not want ... More About: Blogging , Blogs , Boot
Is That Photoshopped?
2007-10-20 22:48:00 This web comic is brought to you by xkcd.com and Randall Munroe (A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language). More About: Humor , Photosho
Friday Song Of The Day - Online
2007-10-19 06:44:00 This week’s Friday Song Of The Day comes to you from Brad Paisley. It’s his extremely and geeky Online . This song appears on the album titled 5th Gear. I work down at the pizza pit and I drive an old Hyundai I still live with my mom and dad I’m five foot three and overweight I’m a sci-fi fanatic A mild ...
FREE Book - Best Practices For Lightweight Code Review
2007-10-19 06:35:00 Peer code review is happening behind the scenes at your competitor’s shop. Are they wasting their time or gaining a competitive advantage? What type of review actually works? 10 practical essays from industry experts giving specific techniques for effective peer code review: Cisco: The largest-ever case study of peer code review Modern experiments: results of the past ... More About: Review , Free , Book , Code , Lightweight
Manualist Plays Crazy Train By Ozzy Osbourne
2007-10-18 21:47:00 Gerry Phillips (aka The Gunecologist) is a truly talented manualist. I’ve posted his material here before and I wanted to do so again. This is his performance of Ozzy Osbourne ’s Crazy Train . More About: Video , Humor
Are You A Procrastinator?
2007-10-17 15:16:00 Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. More About: Humor
A Monster Phishing Scam
2007-10-16 17:48:00 I just received an email from an Adrianna -at- Mons ter .com with the subject “Monster.com suggests You the new job, Jonathan Franzone.” I do have an account at monster.com, but I have never received an email like this so of course I opened it up to see what was up. My first indicator that this email ... More About: Internet , Phishing , Scam
Win A $100 Best Buy Gift Card
2007-10-15 19:00:00 Want a chance to win a $100 gift card from Best Buy? It’s easy. Just take the Dice Salary Survey and provide your email address at the end of the survey to enter. I just completed the survey and it only took about ten minutes… really no big deal. The offer expires October 26, 2007 ... More About: Card , Giveaways , Gift
How Do You Organize Your Desk?
2007-10-15 17:13:00 Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. More About: Organize , Humor , Desk , Organ
Friday Song Of The Day - Emotional Rescue
2007-10-12 17:56:00 Emotional Rescue by The Rolling Stones appears on their Forty Licks album from 1980. I love the song as with many of The Stones songs. The content though appears to be a guy pleading with some woman to leave her husband or boyfriend to be with him. Hmm… a song of adultery, possibly? Of course ... More About: Song , Friday , Emotional
Frank Herbert?s Dune - Audiobook
2007-10-11 18:30:00 I just finished Frank Herbert’s Dune on audiobook and am completely stoked. It really made the commute back and forth to my new job so tolerable. I saw the old movie made back in 1984 for which I have always been a fan. However, I never read the actual book and now I regret that ... More About: Entertainment , Audiobook , Frank Herbert
PC Problems - The End In Sight
2007-10-11 03:49:00 As per my last couple of blogs I have been having some problems using my PC… I can’t use it. I have been receiving the error “A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code 4: 0×80090006“. This is one of those elusive problems that has many postings on ... More About: Operating Systems , Problems , Sight
A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for th
2007-10-10 17:10:00 Well, the saga of the broken PC continues. I’ve tried running Windows recovery console from my Windows XP disc, but have not been able to get back up and running. The computer still boots fine and I can see all of my files there at the console, but no login in normal Windows mode. I ... More About: Operating Systems , Problem , License , Accu
PC Woes
2007-10-08 14:57:00 Well my PC took a huge dump this weekend. It’s an odd sort of problem as you can actually boot the computer up. There are a few unknown exception errors that popup as the login screen appears. Then when I try to login it gives me some strange error about validating my Windows license and ... More About: Hardware , Operating Systems
How To Convert Tab Delimited Text To HTML Using AWK
2007-10-05 16:46:00 Have you ever needed to quickly process a text file into some other format… say HTML? Well, I run across this problem more frequently than you might suspect and there is one tool that I use quite often to solve the problem. AWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, ... More About: Tutorials , Text , Convert , Html , Deli
5 Tips For Finding New Things To Blog About
2007-10-04 16:06:00 Have writer’s block? Need some fresh ideas for content? These are just a few sources of blog material that you can utilize to get the creative juices flowing. Solving A Problem A lot of what I do as a software engineer includes solving problems. Many of them are small like: Problem) I need to display X, Y ... More About: Tips , Blogging , Blog , Things
ProBlogger Is Giving Away $54,000 In Cash And Prizes!
2007-10-03 16:01:00 Darren Rowse is running a Birthday Bash Giveaway in celebration of the ProBlogger.net blog’s three year birthday. Congratulations, Darren! Anyway he has acquired giveaway/prize contributions from sponsors of many prizes ranging in value from a few dollars to several thousand dollars. The giveaways are already underway and are happening fast, so you should head over ... More About: Blogging , Giveaways , Prizes , Giving , Cash
Web Host Highlight - Web Hosting Buzz
2007-10-01 02:46:00 I’d like to take a bit of space to highlight a web host - Web Host ing Buzz . If you are looking for a good place to host your website you should check out the services and features Web Hosting Buzz has to offer. Features Overview Upto 25 Free Domains for Life FREE Shopping Carts FREE Photo Album Scripts Multi Language ... More About: Highlight
Color Palettes For The Non Artist
2007-09-26 06:21:00 I do not consider myself an artist by any means and so when it comes to picking out color combinations for web work I am usually at a loss. I can generally pick out when something looks really bad, but I’m not that adept at finding subtle color variations that will match another. So what’s ... More About: Color , Artist , Palette , Artis
How Can I Tell If My Bash Script Is Already Running?
2007-09-24 05:51:00 A lot of times I have to write Bash scripts that get scheduled to run over and over again. These scripts can also take a while to run depending on the task I have for it. There could be a huge problem if I crank up multiple versions of the same script on accident and ... More About: Running , Tutorials , Operating Systems , Script , Ready
Where Do Shooting Stars Come From?
2007-09-23 02:26:00 Here’s a hilarious and somewhat scientific look into space, space travel and shooting stars. It’s all about perspective. (Click through to the site if you cannot see the video) More About: Video , Stars , Humor , Technology , Shooting
How To Make A Glowing Tomato
2007-09-22 20:42:00 Check this cool video out. It’s a tutorial on how to make a tomato glow. Ooh. This would make a great science project for your kids. (Click through to the site if you cannot see the video) Make A GLOWING TOMATO ! - Click here for this week?s top video clips More About: Video , Tutorials , Tomato
Tech Bundle - September 21
2007-09-21 13:42:00 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3 - The big news of the week! WordPress is releasing version 2.3 on Monday, September 24. This article outlines some of the new features you can expect… including tags! 25+ Ways To Synchronize Your Bookmarks - This article on Mashable.com is a great list of tools and ... More About: Tech , Bundle
Friday Song Of The Day - The Streak
2007-09-21 12:20:00 I love comedy and that includes in music. Ray Stevens is one of the all time great comedy singers. Here is one of the top known songs most of you have probably heard before, The Streak. (Reporter): Hello, everyone, this is your action news reporter with all the news that is news across the nation, on the scene ... More About: Song , Friday , The D
What Happens When You Open Every Application On A MacBook Pro?
More articles from this author:2007-09-20 15:44:00 Some guy decided he’d see if his MacBook Pro could handle opening every application on it… at the same time. He says it took quite a while and paused here and there, but eventually had everything up and running. Amazing! Way to go Apple . Here is the original article on Digg. The picture below links to ... More About: Toys , Open , Application , Macbook 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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