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Welcome to my Iphonoegraphy gallery. The series of photos started as a result of an iphonoegraphy challenge on Twitter that required taking and editing pictures with your phone. The photos displayed here have all been taken using my iPhone 4. All editing has been done on the phone using various apps. I hope you enjoy my work.

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Email Design for Outlook 2007

December 10, 2010 | Web Development

Outlook 2007

This is a real quick post because of the love-hate relationship I’ve developed for crappy software like IE6 and the rendering engine for Outlook 2007. Since nearly anyone and everyone uses Microsoft Outlook (majority rules), you have to deal with their problems. Outlook 2000 users, need not worry about this post.

There comes a time in every developer’s designer’s life that requires them to design an email template for a company. If you’ve ever worked with CSS and shifted away from tables and moved onto divs, you’ll find that you might have to go back to how things were done before.

We all say that time is money. But how much?

November 5, 2010 | General

Starbuck Latte

A friend of mine was complaining that there isn’t enough time in the day. And another friend commented on how it would be nice if we could buy more time. This had me thinking about whether time can be crunched down into numbers using some basic math (and keep in mind I do suck at math).

The solution to IE6

October 28, 2010 | Web Development

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

This post simply allows me to express my deepest feelings for the failed browser, but still very much alive, IE6 (Internet Explorer version 6). On my way to work, I think about the headaches I may receive. I think about the worst moments of my day and how it would likely have a connection to IE6. Coffee machine not working… IE6, network crashed….IE6, driving on a spare (donut) tire because the first one has a hole in it… IE6. You get the picture.

Setting up an IP Tables Firewall in Linux

July 22, 2010 | Web Development

Over the past couple years, I found myself spending more time with Linux servers. I generally work with Ubuntu servers but more recently began swimming in the yum’s and rpm’s of CentOS. Although each server requires specific configurations and fine tuning, my general starting point after creating a user account was setting up a firewall.

There are various software firewalls available for each distribution. The one I’ve used most is IP Tables, and setting up is relatively straight forward.

Start by viewing your current configuration (if available)

sudo iptables -L

This command will allow you to view the current set of rules that exist. To start on a clean slate, I would recommend saving all your rules to a file. Let’s start by flushing the existing rules.

sudo iptables -F

Getting Apache 2 and Tomcat 6 to Collaborate on a Ubuntu 10 server

July 20, 2010 | Web Development

If there is any topic I have researched till the point of further hair loss, it is getting an Apache web server to collaborate with Tomcat easily, on a Ubuntu system. In fact, I think collaborate may not be the right term, but a more proper description would be having Apache delegate certain tasks to Tomcat. Essentially, Tomcat would handle the access to the Java applications, while Apache would take care of everything else.

There are alot of articles, blog posts, and how-to’s that take this topic into depth. Most of them are either out-dated, or haven’t quite worked with my present scenario.