Repairing a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW (bad capacitors and flickering)

September 23rd, 2011 - Hardware, How To

About a month ago, my Samsung SyncMaster 226BW began experiencing slight flickering with the screen. It became progressively worse and worse as the weeks went on, and finally it was at the point where it would take 5-10 minutes to ‘warm up’ and shake loose the flickering screen. Not only was it concerning, but it [...]

iPodTouch (iOS 4) terrible battery life

September 18th, 2011 - Apple, How To

Getting poor battery life with your iOS device? Try doing this to bring your battery back to normal. I started getting this after iOS 4 for my iPodTouch gen 4.

Aristo CSS3 Menu V2

April 22nd, 2011 - CSS, How To

I found this menu structure after falling in love with the jQueryUI Aristo theme.  A really slick and smooth theme that I personally find, works very well with all my jQueryUI projects.  Whenever styling buttons of widgets (calendar, sliders, etc;) I reach for Aristo UI. Anyway I found that this theme has also been crafted [...]

Jailbreaking Apple TV2 with greenpois0n RC6, Easy as umm Apple pie…

February 14th, 2011 - Apple, How To

I was very excited to notice that greenpois0n RC6 was released so that I could finally do an un-tethered jailbreak.  For those that don’t know the difference, a tethered jailbreak consists of having to attack the USB cable to your device on EVERY boot.  Which for the purpose of having a little Apple TV2 box [...]

Coldfusion and checking if a variable is Defined

January 26th, 2011 - Coldfusion, How To, PHP, Thoughts & Rants

As I work with Coldfusion 9, I can’t help but keep comparing it to PHP, and I get annoyed by some of the small differences. One thing that I really have been getting annoyed with lately is checking if a variable is defined.  In most cases you could do a simple check, is it empty? [...]

Updating Coldfusion 9 to 9.0.1 on Linux J2EE

December 17th, 2010 - Coldfusion, How To

So I have never done this before, and I figured for everyones benefit I would document the process from my end. I am faced with updating Coldfusion 9 to 9.0.1 for our production server. This server is running JBoss with CF9 running inside of it (J2EE WAR file). Here is the process I took: Downloaded [...]

How to change the page title from within a Coldfusion 9 Portlet

August 5th, 2010 - Coldfusion, How To

So in an earlier post I described the process to get started with a very basic portlet running under JBOSS / Coldfusion 9 / Liferay 6.  This post assumes that you actually are developing portlets, and have already setup the underlying structure to host said portlets. This is a simple piece of code that allows [...]