Python Script to Update WordPress in One Step

During the past week, I think I had to update all my wordpress instances twice, and it’s become really annoying doing this manually. I’ve written a python script which I’ll share with you. How I keep my wordpress updated by hand I tend to keep my wp-content folder outside of my wordpress installation for 2 […]

Cola: Real-Time Remote Pair coding

This is not new, but I hadn’t seen it, so maybe you didn’t either, I’ll let the video speak for itself, I’m speechless. Thanks to Daniel Chang for sharing this with me. Cola: Real-Time Shared Editing from Mustafa K. Isik on Vimeo.

Geek T-Shirt Collection #4 – SpamTShirt.com/”Healthy Semen”

This is one of the oldest self made t-shirts. I was constantly pissed at the amount of spam email I was receiving, and I thought some of the subjects were really eye catching for t-shirts. For a few months I thought maybe I could make money on the creativity of spammers by mocking them with […]

My new XBOX Live Avatar

Tada! That’s me on Xbox live, my gamer tag is of course “GUBATRON” Check out the Xbox Live Upgrade experience screenshot by screenshot. What’s your avatar like?

Amazon’s Black Friday deals voting is now open

Black friday is around the corner and it’s become a shopping tradition at Amazon.com to make the craziest deals available in a democratic fashion. They have 18 crazy deals to propose organized into 6 rounds. Amazon users get to vote on each of these rounds for their favorite offer, what will you vote for? Then […]

New FrostWire 4.17.2 for Windows is out

Download FrostWire 4.17.2 for Windows CHANGELOG: Version 4.17.2 (November 2008) Fixes a newly introduced bug in Windows which would make FrostWire(tm) take over the .bittorrent file association without asking the user. Reduces DHT network load. The LimeWire team found out that the Mojito “store forwarding” feature would not provide extra data availability, so it’s been […]

Geek T-Shirt Collection #3 – CSS Protest / wedoit4you.com

wedoit4you.com was one of my personal efforts from school, with it I learned a lot about web development, technology, news, and the tech industry since it was a blog before the term was even invented. During those times, I was learning CSS, and I had to learn about centering elements, I always found it very […]

Java/Reflection notes: Invoking a static main() method from a dinamically loaded class.

Maybe for some wild reason, your Java application will need to execute a pre launcher that won’t know about the Main class it’s supposed to invoke until it’s being executed. For example, you have distributed your Java application but you used pack200 to compress your jars, and your new application launcher will unpack everything, but […]

Joost shows its claws, Embedding now available

Here we go, Episode 35 of Bleach, embed test: Notes to Joost developers: I had to resize the size of the embedded object, by default it was 640×360, but this is too wide for the standard blog, which usually has a 2 column layout. It’d recommend 400×225 as the default size for most bloggers to […]

Monetizing Free Video works better in the Living Room

Well over a year ago I asked a Joost executive why not use some of that money they recently had gotten in funding into going for the living room via Xbox or PS3. I got a politically correct answer about yes, we’ll do it eventually, but that’s not our focus right now. In the meantime, […]