Tech Sec: Dell Studio Hybrid Brings the PC to the Living Room

With the introduction of Windows Vista Home Premium with its built in PVR (Personal Video Recorder) capabilities, the PC has taken a giant step toward becoming a permanent fixture in your living room. But who wants a huge and ugly PC tower propped up next to their TV? Sure, there are custom Home Theatre PC [...] [...]

MySQL Wins at LinkedIn!

I was with a customer last week, who leads technology and operations for one of the world’s largest companies. We were talking through his priorities for the upcoming year, and on a page filled with various traditional priorities (consolidation, energy… [...]

CSS Rounded Corner Roundup

The past several years have introduced many different solutions for creating rounded corners using CSS. Some of the solutions use images, while others don’t – while others require assistance from JavaScript. The great thing about Snipplr is that we capture all of these rounded corner techniques on one page. Below is a highlight of some [...] [...]

Dabbler isn’t Dead. We’re Still Here (Just Overworked)

The rumors of our demise are slightly exaggerated! You may have noticed the number of postings on Dabbler.ca has trickled down to almost zero over the last two months. We’ve gotten many queries about why that is and some even think Dabbler is now defunct. Things could not be farther from the truth. But in response [...] [...]

Snipplr Ruby Gem, Bringing Snipplr Into the Command Line

Command Line Interface (CLI) has long been my favorite interface when handling code, it makes it easy to edit, search and traverse your code base with tools like vim, find and grep. Common CLI usage includes the copy and pasting of code snippets. However, keeping track of all those snippets isn’t easy , Snipplr makes the [...] [...]