In a previous post (Recovering GRUB After Installing Windows 7) I described a situation where GRUB would not be able to detect your Windows 7 boot partition after you installed Ubuntu. The fix was to point the root directory to a small (or secret?) partition outside of the main Windows 7 NTFS partition. I recently [...]
As some of you may know, Derek and I have been working on a few projects (Project Win) over the past months. We started these projects in February and worked through until May where we decided to go our separate ways for a little bit. Although none of our projects made it to deployment, we [...]
A great deal of my “geekness” has been influenced by various magazines and zines that I read as a kid. In the days before Reddit and Digg, I would rely on these magazines to teach me more about the latest developments in the tech world. In fact, even with sites like Reddit and Digg, I [...]
If you’re building a webapp that has user registration, you’ll probably want to keep track of various tidbits of user information such as: username, e-mail, city, country etc. Designing the registration page to take in a user’s name and e-mail is easy, just give them an input box and let them type whatever they want [...]
Alright, I’ve put up two posts on the previous weekend’s Toronto Code Camp 2010 and I swear this will be the last one. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can check out the previous posts: Event live blogging: http://www.pioverpi.net/2010/05/01/toronto-code-camp-live-blog/ Seminar notes: http://www.pioverpi.net/2010/05/03/notes-on-toronto-code-camp-2010/ I just wanted to finish of this series of posts [...]