Moving over a bunch of stuff from my old Tech and Development Blog... Ill most likely be writing here from now instead of the old one. This will generally be geek stuff targeting developers, coders and designers... from source code to tutorials... If you're used to my stuff, it will be here.
So. Ive been shopping around for newer more powerful hosting for a number of my own sites as well as some new projects for my employer...
After LOTS of reading and research, I'm doing an experiment over the next few weeks where I will be migrating most of my sites as well as a really big new one for work to the Media Temple Grid Servers.
Don't actually have a lot to say at the moment except that their control panel is really pretty. Their sales team seems competent. What they say they provide is really good...
Lets all see how it goes. Should be interesting... anyone who has read about them since 2006ish has prolly heard the horror stories about crappy speed... downtime... lack of intelligent support... all the bad words you don't wanna hear about a host. I haven't been able to find a decent article on them dated much later than December of 2007 that doesn't talk about the massive improvements in support and uptime. Leads me to believe that the lack of "press" could be due to improvements and lack of stuff for people to bitch about.
anyway... I'm a guinea pug now... we shall see if I regret it. ;)
Some of my sites will be left at my current host... who I have always been happy with.
Client sites wont be moved until I have verified that (mt) is all I hope they are they say they are.
So today I found a rockin blog... Daily Cup Of Tech. This Tim guy rocks... add his blog you your RSS reader... I did. Anyway, his posts on USB drive autorun tools inspired me... read his posts Here and Here
I made a tool based off his code that has a number of cool features... all configured from a single inf file... and using a text file for the message to make sure mac and/or linux users could still get the message...
Heres the scenario... you drop your precious USB drive somewhere and some other dude finds it... he has no idea who's it is or anything... youre never gonna see it again right? welll lets hope thats not the case...
Lets hope the guy is foolish enough to stick a foreign USB drive in his pc and let it run (well most people are so foolish) ... he will see a nice little splash screen and then get a message from you asking him to contact you and return the drive :)
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So. Ive been shopping around for newer more powerful hosting for a number of my own sites as well as some new projects for my employer...
So today I found a rockin blog... 
Harnessing the power and functionality of the popular RokSlide module, Dimensions offers the ability to present your modules in sliding tabs. Publish multiple modules into to a single tab module position as well as customize the titles that appear in each tab.
Learn more... 
Organize large amounts of information in easy to navigate tabbed panes and reduce the clutter and space needed to display your content. By default, User 7-11 module positions appear in the bottom tabbed module pane. You can also add more module positions if needed.
Learn more... 
All of Dimensions accent colours are CSS based, allowing you to change the colour scheme with just a few quick modifications to the CSS. Use any background image you want, and the top and bottom fades will automatically be applied for a seamless look.
Learn more... 
Styles 1 and 2 have four different time of day stylesets which dynamically change throughout the day based on your users' time. Customize the existing styles, or create your own automatically changing background and color mods.
Learn more... 
With Dimensions, you can use any background image you desire to give your site the character and style you want. Choose any image, set it as your background, and Dimensions will automatically apply top and bottom fades to your background image for a more seamless integration.