Musings of a technophile

Whenever you design a website, it is a good idea to even take the little things into consideration in order to make the user experience the best. That being said, I noticed the other day that anytime someone hit a 404 page to my site they received the GoDaddy error message for a 404, which is pretty generic. I looked inside my templates for WordPress and say that there is… Continue reading

One of the greatest things in security of your web application is the encryption of the connection strings to the database. If the database connection strings are compromised, then an attacker could gain access to your database and cause unforeseen damage. In order to avoid this, Microsoft has created best practices and instruments for encrypting your connection strings in ASP.NET 2.0. This documentation may be found here. I wrote… Continue reading

I recently saw a commercial on TV that features this thing called “The Snuggie” that is basically a blanket that is made to look like a robe The theory – if you are trying to stay warm, a blanket will fall off of you while The Snuggie will stay put. Also, if you just want to look ridiculous, this thing is for you!

I just have to say, you… Continue reading

A friend of ours recently bought a MyGym, which is basically a gym for toddlers and children. My wife had helped a friend take their daughter to a MyGym before, so she knew what it was about and thought it would be nice for the boys to try it. Seeing how the boys have lots of spare energy lately (and seeing as I don’t have a way to harness that… Continue reading

For Thanksgiving last year (yes – I know it’s January – better to post late than never) we decided to go down to Fort Myers since it would be the last time we would be probably be traveling for a while since our baby girl was almost here. The boys were actually good (for once!) on both the car trip down and back, so that was a first.

In… Continue reading

Logan’s Birthday was on November 15th (ok ok…so I’m a little bit late writing this post..better late than never). While we had a birthday party for both the boys on November 1st, we treated that party as more of a public affair, while we treated Logan’s birthday as more of a private party for both the boys.

Since Logan is really into dinosaurs at the moment, we decided… Continue reading

My younger son is really into dinosaurs at the moment, and since they just opened the T-Rex restaurant in Downtown Disney (or Disney Village as some call it), we thought that would be a great treat for his second birthday. The restaurant, which was created by the same company that made The Rainforest Cafe, is filled with tons of animatronic dinosaurs and incredible scenery, really drawing you into a prehistoric… Continue reading

Perhaps it’s that I’m come of stingy when spending money, or perhaps it’s like some personal quest of mine, but whatever the reason – I have managed to find yet another incredible “absolutely free” game. The game is called TrackMania Nations Forever, and you can get it simply by downloading Steam and then downloading the game by doing a search for it within Steam.

TrackMania is a game… Continue reading

If you’ve dealt with SQL replication, you might have come across the problem of queries getting blocked while you attempt to create a snapshot for your replication publication. The reason why is almost self explanatory – a snapshot is record of how the table was when replication began. This being said, it requires that the table be locked so that the data doesn’t change while the snapshot is reading the… Continue reading

As many of my friend know, one of the games I play the most these days is Defense of the Ancients, which is a mod for Warcraft III. Defense of the Ancients has become such a huge game played by so many people, that some people even buy Warcraft III just to play DotA.

DotA differs from Warcraft III in that you only control 1 hero, and you don’t… Continue reading