Looks like another company is joining in the fight to unseat the top two web browsers. Others have come before, all have failed. See Flock, Avant, and Opera.

Now comes Pogo, by AT&T (a very unlikely development powerhouse). Many people will be turned off by the "deathstar" logo, but spend a minute watching their demo video and you will be amazed. [Read More]

I don't know who let the geeks into the marketing department, but an ubernerd had to be responsible for tacking "Veloci" onto Western Digital's Raptor line of hard drives.

Western Digital picked an extremely appropriate name for its new 10,000 rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive. Dubbed the VelociRaptor, this new drive, introduced today... [read more]

The new drive brings the previously 150GB drive size to 300GB and beats the next fastest drive on the market by 32 seconds when writing 3.09GB.

Ritesh Agrawal aka "ragrawal" built a really nice Social Bookmarklet helper for CakePHP 1.2. It allows for the easy creation of "Share This" type links. I found that the location of the icons needed to be corrected to use CakePHP's IMAGES_URL constant.

I also changed the html wrapper element from a div to li allowing better easier use with jdMenu.

Downloads: Bookmark [Read More]

Best Buy sent me an amazing letter today. We got a Toshiba HD-A3 along with our HDTV over the Christmas season. At the time, nobody knew which high definition DVD medium would be the winner of the DVD 2.0 race. I decided, at the time, that if we were to purchase a next-gen gaming system, it would be an Xbox 360 which supported HD DVD, so by buying an HD DVD player and not a Blu-ray player, we would have two players in the house that supported HD DVD. [Read More]

These jokers have ridiculously mad skills.

We recently installed memcached on a couple servers. As we begin to scale up our use of CakePHP, we quickly saw a need for some type of caching solution so that every page request wasn't running the full load of queries to render a page.

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Jiri Kupiainen wrote a CakePHP / [Read More]

After getting a DNLA error 2006 on our Playstation 3 with newly updated firmware, I hit the interweb to determine if I could find a solution. When we initially setup the PS3 it had no issues locating the shared folders on our Windows Home Server and we were up and running with streaming video across our network from the WHS to the PS3.

However, with the latest firmware update to the PS3, the [Read More]

Sam Collett put together a great jQuery plugin for select box manipulation. It allows for the easy adding, removing, sorting, selecting, and copying of options in a select box without the need of loops. I downloaded the original from his site, http://www.texotela.co.uk/code/jquery/select/, and started getting it up and running. Except for the fact that you can not do a post request the ajaxAddOption method, everything works great with no modification.

I modified the ajaxAddOption [Read More]

I've been working hard to get thompsonbd.com ported over to CakePHP 1.2. Originally, I had a custom build "framework" that I used to string the site together. After having worked with CakePHP at my day job for the past six or seven months, I couldn't wait to bring home the things learned while at the office and try some it out on my own site.

Even after working heavily in a LAMP environment for the past four or five years, I had never heard mention of a PHP framework. When the need arose at my office to start moving our current site [Read More]