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You want to buy a new car, take a new job, volunteer at the food bank — how can you ensure that you’re making the right decision?

George Hartzog, the greatest leader of National Park Service understood that creativity can be crushed in the name of “standards.” He killed the employee handbooks and set his people free.

At over $50,000 a year for an Ivy League education, wouldn’t most kids be better off doing something else with their money? As Mario Botta said, “What are universities, but parking lots for youth?”

Lately, the GMail team has been sort of pissing me off, with various things. Recent versions of GMail didn’t work on Chrome on one of my computers (yes, didn’t work on their own browser on my computer). They got rid of the Offline version. Well, I don’t always have connectivity and it felt like Google [...]

The wp-pear-debug brings a few handy debugging tools to Worpdress. If you’re not working in an IDE with full-fledged debugging, this is a must have for any Wordpress developer.

Secure Alternatives to Dropbox

Dropbox has come under fire for not being as secure as we’ve perhaps been led to believe, but Secret Sync and Spider Oak promise more secure alternatives.

A few favorite WordPress plugins

Everyone has their favorite Wordpress Plugins. Here are some of my favorites.

Using WordPress on WebEnabled

So I’ve been using WebEnabled lately. If you don’t know it, Webenabled is a service that lets you build sandbox environments for tons of open source apps (Drupal, WordPress, CivicCRM and many many more) and gives you all kinds of tools – version control, site cloning, and more. One of the killer tools is Deploy, [...]

There is no Drupal 6 module that lets you add a meta noindex to pages tagged with a specific term, but here’s how to do it easily in the theme layer.

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Sometimes a Word document you get from someone else will have some strange characters that do not render correctly, either due to missing fonts or incompatible character encoding. Here’s how to find them and get rid of them.

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