Category Archives: Technical

Computer or Internet related with very technical or in depth content

List of AJAX element on a Facebook New Feeds page

If you are up for a little pop quiz, and you have a Facebook account, visit the “News Feeds” page and make a list of everything on the page that you consider to be using AJAX.

11 January 2012 – 16:09:11 | By Jonathan | Posted in Programming | Tagged , |

Prisoner Restitution

Citizens of the United States of America have rights. Such as the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When a citizen commits a crime, they do so in trade for some of their rights. In other words, were I to kill someone, I would give up my rights to liberty and the …

20 July 2011 – 11:44:58 | By Jonathan | Posted in Economics, Energy, Philosophic, Political, Religious | Tagged , , , , , |

Git Notes

I have recently taken the plunge into learning Git. These are my notes thus far. git init git status git remote (list local “remote” aliases) git remote add/rm [url] (creates a new alias) git add (add changes; those could be in files or directory structure) git add -p (add changes per chunk in a file!) …

14 June 2011 – 08:42:10 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Programming, Software, Unix/Linux | Tagged |

My Vim Cheatsheet

A while ago I read some Vim tutorials that were written by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier and found them to be an excellent source of quick tips for a cheat sheet. So I set out to create a cheat sheet I could hang near my computer. I finally got around to finishing it. So I am …

25 February 2011 – 15:08:55 | By Jonathan | Posted in Programming, Unix/Linux |

AWS Free Tier Micro Instance 101

I recently decided to hop on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier, and see what it was all about. I use regular AWS services at work quite a bit so I am not a newcomer to the AWS world. However, this was my first foray in to the Free Tier offering. I created this …

17 February 2011 – 14:29:20 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, System Administration | Tagged , , , , , |

HTML Signatures in Gmail

Last month, Google released rich text signatures for their Gmail product. When I read this I was excited that I may be able to get rid of the plug-in I had been using for this same purpose. While the plugin worked, most of the time, there were times when it did not. I also personally …

04 August 2010 – 12:40:19 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Software | Tagged , , , , |

iWard

My friend Brian just release this sweet iPhone App that puts my LDS Ward Directory on my iPhone. If you are an LDS member and want quick and easy access to your Ward Directory, you need to check out iWard by Avikey.

24 March 2009 – 00:39:59 | By Jonathan | Posted in Friends, iPhone, Software | Tagged , |