first 'real' refreshPhilly event

The first round of ‘official’ speakers set the bar pretty high for refreshPhilly. Tom Boutell from www.punkave.com gave us a talk on symphony and set the tone of the crowd as a hardcore web devs followed by Phil Charron and Russ Starke who brilliently challenged us to the core. Dragging up memories of aquaman they threw down the simple question: So what exactly are we going to do for Philly?

January 13, 2009 · 1 min · Aaron Held

Mummers here and abroad

Philadelphia: 1, England 0 [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“180” caption=“Philly mummers”][/caption] [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“180” caption=“English Mummers”][/caption]

January 1, 2009 · 1 min · Aaron Held

virus alert!

While hunting online for that movie with the couple who pay thier neighbors to act normal so they can sell thier home I got redirected to this nicely done virus page. Its a convincing experience to get the user to download and install the application. I wonder if these criminals would be open to oursourcing some IA work that I need done????? [caption id=“attachment_114” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“Well done social engineerig page to install a virus”][/caption]

January 1, 2009 · 1 min · Aaron Held

missing my mac

My sleek mac is more like a Jaguar then a chevy. Yes it is in the shop. My machine and 4 of its cousins left our office last week for an undisclosed service center for an indeterminate amount of time. I’m using a Dell laptop. The dell hardware is really solid as is the wireless connectivity. The operating system is windows on top of full drive encryption so the software experience leaves something to be desired....

December 23, 2008 · 1 min · Aaron Held

Netbeans for HTML-CSS work?

Due to an unfortunate series of work related events I find myself writing php code. Not only php code, but wordpress php code. That however is the topic of a later post (as is plugins that edit core code using regex based searches) I did the work in textmate but decided to spin up my new Netbeans 6.5 in order to test the subversion functionality. Immediately I noticed that Netbeans picked up a tag mismatch and highlighted it nicely:...

December 10, 2008 · 1 min · Aaron Held