Huzzah! New hard drive installed in MacBook Pro!

Posted by on Apr 10, 2009 in Technology | One Comment

Preface: You have to understand that Apple really, really, REALLY doesn’t expect (want?) folks to be upgrading the drive of their MacBook Pros. This was nothing like the nightmare involved in an old clamshell iBook drive upgrade, but boy howdy I’ve never seen so many screws. Whew. Just a follow-up from a previous post where […]

Caffeine levels in various drinks

Posted by on Apr 7, 2009 in General, Technology | No Comments

Found this link at CNN interesting today. From the article… “It is not just coffee that can lead to caffeine withdrawal. While a 6-ounce cup of brewed coffee contains about 100 milligrams of caffeine, tea and cola have about 40 milligrams each, a bar of milk chocolate has about 10 milligrams and hot chocolate has about 7 […]

Tracking Downloads in Google Analytics

Posted by on Mar 23, 2009 in Technology, Web Development | No Comments

The next time someone tells you that you can’t track downloads in Google Analytics (like links to PDFs, movies, or other assets that don’t reside on an actual page) tell them they’re full of crap. =) Provided you’re using the newer ga.js method you are golden. Check it out here. The one gotcha is that […]

Upgrading memory on a Mac Mini G4

Posted by on Mar 21, 2009 in Family, Technology | No Comments

Well, the day finally came to upgrade the memory on my father-in-law’s Mac Mini. He was running with 512MB and it just wasn’t cutting it any longer, plus I wanted to upgrade him to Leopard so more memory seemed like a good idea. Getting the extra RAM was the easy (cheap!) part, but once confronted […]

ASP.NET CS0433 compilation error resolution

Posted by on Nov 13, 2008 in General, Technology, Web Development | No Comments

To resolve ASP.NET CS0433 compile errors resulting from a changed code-behind, simply do the following: rename the Bin directory (may need to wait for the processes inside to finish talking to it) visit page in question (will result in an error, just ignore) rename Bin directory back to Bin visit page in question again Ta […]

GoLive to Dreamweaver (gl2dw) Site Conversion Tool

Posted by on Aug 29, 2008 in Technology, Web Development | No Comments

I’ve recently gone through the painful task of using Adobe’s GL2DW extension to convert a very large heavily component-ized, heavily templated GL CS2 site to Dreamweaver CS3. This would have been a much more grizzly experience without the help of Rob Keniger of MenuMachine fame and his revisions to the GL2DW tool found here: http://www.menumachine.com/kb/162 […]