I quickly implemented Gravatars in GraffitiCMS today. The only issue I had was due to my migration from dasBlog. During the conversion, comments that were migrated didn't have the commenters IP Address migrated as well. In my post.view file for Graffiti, I added the following code: # if ($comment.IPAddress...

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Upgrading to iPhone's 2.0 Firmware Yesterday morning Steve Rubel asked on Twitter if anyone spotted the iPhone firmware in the wild . Roughly 20 minutes later, he posts a link on FriendFeed, iPhone 2.0 Firmware (5A347) Available Early - Mac Rumors . (Note: if you are into social media and you're not...

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Joanna purchased a new MacBook Air several weeks ago and she decided that instead of using Boot Camp to run Windows, she'd use VMware Fusion. At some point, I think right after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Update stopped installing patches and would give an error message saying that...

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"Documentation is like sex. When it's good, that's great. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing. None at all though..." Written by Linda Eskin on Twitter .

While watching Wimbledon tonight, I saw the following commercial and knew I had to find it. Rhys Darby stars as Murray in the HBO comedy Flight of the Conchords . I can't wait for FotC season two later this year. I'll leave you with one of my clips from season one....

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Today I needed to write a subquery to get additional data for a file we export daily. However, I didn't need the actual data, I just needed to set a value based on the column in the subquery. I couldn't find any examples via the Google, so I figured I'd help others out that might be looking. Here is...

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This video is too funny not to share. Warning, some language is NSFW, so put on headphones?...

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No one saw this coming! All of the pre-Wimbledon talk was around the path people would take to the finals and who would play who early. WIMBLEDON, England -- Novak Djokovic was upset in straight sets by Marat Safin in the second round Wednesday, ending the Serb's chances of testing his theory about Roger...

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A couple of months ago, I moved iTech Northwest's site to GraffitiCMS and I really enjoyed how everything came together. GraffitiCMS is a very solid application and I knew it would be a great fit for my personal site. I don't think the move to the new server ever really worked with dasBlog and frankly...

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In this screencast I walk through the steps of creating a dynamic menu button for OSI's TCCUS and/or TCBS (I like to call it TC*). If you've never used or created menu buttons, watch the screencast to see how they are used to enrich your core processing system. In this example, I'm creating a menu button...

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