SuperGeekery

May 19

Facebook’s unimpressive opening day bodes well for the Facebook Platform.

Yesterday, Facebook’s IPO could be seen as a face plant for the kid full of hubris during his first time in the spotlight. As a developer, I see this as a potentially great set of circumstances for Facebook. My hope is that yesterday’s anticlimax of an IPO may lead to a more stable platform to build upon. I like the API and the more I work with it that admiration only grows. I just want evolution in the API, not revolution. Facebook is... + read on

Apr 6

Untangling MX: Setting up DNS records for a web site with different mail server.

I recently had to set up an MX record for a client and although I’ve set them up before, it suddenly made sense to me in a way that it hadn’t before. Perhaps my story will help someone else have a similar epiphany. Basic name server set up. My client had their site and their mail all handled by the same serving company. This meant their name server records were basic. There were 3 entries and that was it. All traffic to their domain used the... + read on

Aug 27

A new Mac showing off.

I’ve been setting up my new MacPro this week. It’s gone smoothly for the most part. I run quite a large number of apps regularly so I keep finding one that I missed and then my workflow get interrupted so I can make a quick addition. Since I was updating from a nearly 5 year old machine, iStat Menus made me laugh when I had it display CPU usage. Since the new machine is a 12-core beast and each core has 2 threads, iStat menu will display the... + read on

Jun 25

The positive side of technology’s rapid change.

This is not a post about the iPhone, but I’ll talk about it because it helps make my point. I spent 6 hours and 40 minutes standing in line to get the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread in the mobile phone world, the iPhone 4. Is it really that great? Actually, it is a very impressive machine. But it was just the one year ago we had the previous greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread, the iPhone 3Gs, before that, the iPhone 3G, and so on. Will the... + read on

Apr 4

Round Ice Cubes: The Sequel

Back in 2007, I found some ice cube trays that were really cool to me. They made large spherical ice cubes. I wrote about them here at SuperGeekery in a post called A Geeky Spin Chilling a Cocktail - Round Ice Cubes. The term "round ice cubes" continues to be a top driver to this site. Who would have guessed there was a subculture that thought round ice cubes were as cool as I think they are? For the round ice cube obsessed, there is bad... + read on

Mar 22

SXSW 2010: The Buzzword Takeaway

Another SXSW Interactive ends. The “spring break for nerds” lived up to its unofficial title again. I had a wonderful time catching up with old friends and making new ones. SXSW is just as much making those connections as the panels you attend. Add the panels and the conversations that they inspire over drink and meals after each day's events and a picture of what's in store for the interactive world over the near future begins to... + read on

Mar 15

SXSW Interactiive 2010 Winding Down

Today is day 4 of 5 of SXSW Interactive. It's a mixture of exhilaration and exhaustion. This morning reminds me of waking up on the Saturday morning of the last real weekend of summer. Everyone is a little sun burnt but there's a glow about everyone. Last night we were all out too late but we're up and ready to spend another day with our friends but the heat of the summer is going to be over soon and real life will begin again in just a few... + read on

Mar 5

SuperGeekery Revamp: HTML 5, EE 2, & Design Block

SuperGeekery was originally designed in one furious evening of designing in Photoshop and coding in Expression Engine version 1.something. The speedy design and development was a product of equal parts overbooked schedule and typical procrastination.  I had arrived in Las Vegas at my first CES in January 2007, a geeky badge of honor to me, and felt compelled to write about the experience, but I didn't have my site built yet. That gave me the... + read on

Mar 2

Expression Engine and the White Screen of a Failed Load

During the past several months, I've had a little trouble with SuperGeekery, which is built on Expression Engine. I would often get blank white screens if I clicked through the site too quickly. I think this was always when I was logged in as a SuperAdmin and using the control panel. Asking site visitors, I don't know that anyone else was having the problem, but it happened to me regularly. I could also only get this to happen using... + read on

Mar 1

Expression Engine 2 Plugin: SuperGeekery Tag Stripper, version 1.0

Note: Since it's initial release, the SuperGeekery Tag Stripper has had a few minor updates. It is now at version 1.0.2. The links in the article download the most recent version. Eventually, I will write a proper standalone page for this addon including a real change log. The redesign of SuperGeekery coincided with the release of Expression Engine 2 which gave me the opportunity to jump into the latest version of EE on a project that I was the... + read on