Setting up a BJU Harddrive with a Mac using Parallels

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We have been homeschooling our oldest for two years now. My wife and I decided on using BJU as the homeschool curriculum which has been great. They have three options for accessing the teaching content: DVD, Harddrive and online. Each progressively getting less expensive. The first year we used the DVDs which were easy to … Read more

Drush on 1and1 Shared Hosting php cgi

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I’ve had to search for setting this up so many times I figure I should write my own howto on setting up drush on 1and1 hosting packages. Because 1and1 only has php-cgi and not php-cli we will have to force the drush.php file to behave differently. NOTE: This only works on 1and1 packages with ssh. … Read more

Syncing Keyboard Shortcuts from one iOS to another using ssh (needs jailbreak)

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!!DISCLAIMER!! This process could potentially brick your phone if done improperly. Follow these steps at your own risk. I have created many keyboard shortcuts on my iPhone 4S after learning about the new feature for iOS 5. They make filling out forms and logging into sites so much easier when you can type eml instead … Read more

My Review of SeV Travel Boxers

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Originally submitted at SCOTTEVEST, Inc. We spent months developing the perfect travel boxers with features no other brand has! Although not intended as shorts or swimwear, they offer enough coverage to be worn as shorts in a pinch (Just be mindful of the open fly!). Pocket for your iPhone� or anything else you desire – … Read more

Tips on adding PECL uploadprogress to your PHP scripts

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I’ve been working on adding PECL Uploadprogress support to the drupal viddler module to give the user a better indication of how long the upload process will take. In this process I ran into a few gotchas that I thought I would pass along. Make sure to have the UPLOAD_IDENTIFIER hidden element before your file … Read more

His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage (Review)

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I just finished reading, “His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage” and I must say I’m impressed. While Carla and I are by no means anywhere close to an affair the book does go over how neglecting key needs in a marriage can deduct from ones “Love Bank” and ultimately end up in an … Read more

Vintage Felt Flowers

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It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged, but I’d figure I would start up again for no other reason that I feel like it. So for my first one back I’m going to talk about flowers LOL. Not the typical man topic, but I do photography on the side and thought the flowers at this particular … Read more

Adding pdftk to 1and1 shared hosting

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UPDATE 2010-09-03: I updated a couple links to reflect newer downloads. Because 1and1 shared hosting is on an older debian (etch) system I had to tweak the steps for using lenny based packages. ENJOY! There are some cases where you might need a powerful pdf toolkit to use with php. 1and1 does not come with … Read more

1&1 tightens up Email spam rules

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I use 1and1 for my personal and business websites as well as for our clients. We’ve had a client recently that was not receiving emails from one of their colleagues and of course the other company’s IT person said it was our problem. Having been an email administrator for many years I always like to … Read more

Adding PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal FileField

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Drupal 6.x is the platform we use to build great websites. There are modules FileField and ImageField 3.0 that allow the ability to update a progress meter when uploading a file. This requires installing a PECL extension to PHP called uploadprogress. Here is the process I used to get it working on a 1and1.com hosting … Read more