http://www.bigtoach.com Testimonials of his nerdy life Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:37:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week I took the Zend PHP5 certification test. The questions on the test were not really hard, they were tricky. The great thing about PHP in general is that there are so many great resources to find something out really quickly. Also the problems could be easily solved ... http://www.bigtoach.com/2007/04/zend-certified-engineer/ It amazes me that Bruce clay is such a big player in the SEO Biz and their site looks like crap and has flash on it. Granted they have a billion words on each page. I would still expect that they would focus to some extent on layout as well. ... http://www.bigtoach.com/2007/03/bruce-clay/ Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? This is Panther’s OS X Terminal that got resized so small that it can’t be resized at all anymore. I’ve tried applescripts to resize the window but no luck. Egh I hate Apple right now. http://www.bigtoach.com/2007/01/stupid-os-x-terminal/ I Finally got XGL ala Beryl installed on my home PC. It runs on Ubuntu with KDE (kubuntu) and it is running with Twinview. It is really awesome with all of the wobbly windows and rotating cube. I have a quick screencast below for you to see. The screencast tool ... http://www.bigtoach.com/2006/11/xgl-beryl-on-kubuntu-edgy-eft/ To those of you who don’t know, Annie and I went skydiving in Kauai. Luckily the company filmed it so I put it on youtube so you can look at it. I suck at editing videos so it is kind of long, but you can still watch it, it was ... http://www.bigtoach.com/2006/09/skydiving/ I had way too much fun with the scanner as I was scanning some pictures for Annie’s class. Anywho there is the result. It is pretty creepy if you ask me. Blogged with Flock http://www.bigtoach.com/2006/09/me-as-sloth/ Im back from Kauai and everything was awesome!!! I will be posting some images and maybe videos around here soon hopefully. In the mean time I was able to be a contributing member for OISV so I wanted to flex my badge. Thus there it is. http://www.bigtoach.com/2006/08/oisv/ Annie and I are now in beautiful Kauai! We wanted to show some people some pictures (parents and friends of course) of our trip thus far, so here they are. You can get to them by either Clicking here or by clicking the “Gallery” link at the top and then ... http://www.bigtoach.com/2006/08/kauai-pictures/ If you noticed I added a countdown to the wedding. It should be correct to just about the second because the wedding is supposed to start at 5:30 on August 19 2006. I will post tons of pictures and all that jazz after we get back from our honeymoon in ... http://www.bigtoach.com/2006/08/wedding/ I told my buddy Drew this weekend that he should try Flock which is based on the FireFox browser. I have been using it at work some and it is freaking awesome. It allows me to actually add blog posts from the server, do all kinds of cool bookmark and ... http://www.bigtoach.com/2006/07/flock/