I think the technologies today will converge into one device that will be multifaceted. The input devices such as voice, touch, pen, and the keyboard will all be included in this device. This device will allow for different experiences by allowing for the integration of these input devices in a natural way. Natural in that the different application on these devices will be driven by the input method. It makes sense why.

Let's see how applications will work in this one device.

Calendar/Alarm/Scheduling/Travel ...

I assume you came here because you have no idea what you are doing when it comes to Linux, so I'm going to make this easy. This one is an easy one, but can get quite annoying because of permissions as ssh will verify the permissions of the critical files needed before it uses them for its purposes.

The idea here is that you, the client, and the server have your own public/private keys, then you want to add your public key to the server using the server's "authorized_keys" file, so the server can decode your ...

it's Freakin' cold since I generally don't turn on the heat at night. Today, right now, I start the development of Project Journaler with the Excerion System libraries. I'd like to see how fast I can make a nice usable prototype with it. The prototype will be devoid of login, but that's really really easy to add in with Excerion Central. This journaler is supposed to be a way for me to vent about my projects to get an idea of how I've been doing lately. Starting now at 1:37AM CST/2:37AM EST!

1:57AM: I'm gath...

since last month and IT IS SO FREAKING USEFUL! My gawd, why haven't I used this before? The most useful aspect about it is the fact it provides two keys "j"/"k" to navigate through the news items, so you are basically skimming for interesting things with no friction! You can mark all as read for certain rss feeds like hacker news for example as there is no way I'm going to read every item that appears in that feed. I don't think I've gone to the websites of these sites since I've used Google reader with exc...

It makes it so easy to get the current time, date, timezone, and everything you could imagine except the idea of meridian time: AM and PM. It is workable to use the 24 hours time, but simplicity includes not making people have to think about what they are looking at (At least in my definition).

I was using NetBeans when I was looking at the Date object functions and saw this function: toLocaleFormat(). A locale formatter you say? Sounds like the best thing I've heard of. Printing the date/time with respect t...

A bit ironic, if you know what I like to do with my free time. Hint: click Projects in the menu then come back to this post.

Let's see, I've been working furiously on Dark Gale to get it to minimum viable i.e. playable to anyone. I've been making great progress in getting the UI to be responsive by giving feedback when you perform an action.

One of my great feats during this time has been the guild profile page and how I managed to simplify the interface and at the same time get all the management controls on...

Form validation is the scourge of my life. Have you ever tried to validate a form on your own and end up with a mountain of if/elseif/else statements and maybe a success variable to check on? Yes me too, even right now. I really really want to end this, but how? I think I've come up with a simpler way of doing it and it involves using objects, but first an intro to my problem.

The Problem

Let's say you start a project today and you are like me. You hate writing what it seems to be like ENDLESS AND GRUELING I...

You probably heard of https or secure browsing. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and many other companies use it. You also probably want to make your own web site and "secure" your connections. Well, it's pretty darn easy. Self signed certificates are useful in your development servers though public facing web sites should generate a certificate from a known certificate authority.

There are two ways to go about creating certificates. You can create a single certificate for easy usage or you can get more complica...

Technology sometimes... Let me imagine your scenario, you are organized and have your music library is a bunch of folders. There is no audio file in sight as you scroll down. This is probably where the music app is getting confused. Solution: you need one music file insider of the root view of the music library then it will scan the rest of the directory hierarchy and find all of your other music.

You, like me, use the computer, browse the web, look at cool effects, nice designs and all these other ideas that reasonate with you. The problem is, when it comes to time to create your own design, you have no idea where to start. Your problem is best solved in stealing what you like to see. Be it web site design, picture, or animation.

1. Look at other designs

The no. 1, most important way, and most often cited way of getting an idea is to look at other designs. This may entail going to sites like deviantA...