I spend a lot of time of several photography forums, but I tend to hang out in the web design parts. What can I say, I’m a web nerd. What I realized after helping several people set up sites is that often it’s just getting started with a new website that a lot of people have trouble with. Acronyms like DNS, IP, HTML, ASP, JS, CSS, and PHP are enough to make a budding web designer’s head spin.

Enter BobSmithPhotography.net. Originally the site started as a single posting on Pro Photo Forum on the first steps to take, but it expanded to around 20 posts each going over a step needed for a photographer to get their site up and running. As I wrote it I had more ideas that fit with the tutorial, but not in a thread. So I started Building BobSmithPhotography.net as a place where new web designers can come to find basic information on how to set up a web site. The tutorial section walks through a fictional photographer (Bob Smith) setting up his site, but there are other articles.

I needed a way to find the first second of a week and the last second of a week based on a Unix timestamp. Read the rest of this entry »

Last weekend I bought a 250gb external usb Lifebook to act as a backup drive to replace a crashed drive in my file server. Since my computer was already filling up with drive letters thanks to a network, another external drive, and a media card reader that takes 4 drive letters I decided to map the drive to an empty folder rather than assign it a letter. Read the rest of this entry »

I was going nuts trying to figure out how to get to the security settings for a folder in WinXP MCE.  In Win2k it was under properties, but it wouldn’t show up under XP.

The most popular option I found was to reboot in Safe Mode, but that’s a pain to do every time I want to toy with permissions.

The other option is to go to Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View tab and clear the checkbox next to “Use simple file sharing (Recommended)”.  Poof, the security tab shows up and the sharing tab looks like it did in Win2k.

Back in the previous life of Nutt.net I had two programs on here that I wrote while in high school (I graduated in 1997 so it’s been a few years). These programs - nDB and nCopy (also called Copier in an early version) - are no longer on this site as I am not supporting them any more.

So why am I posting about this? I noticed after installing a plug-in that records searches that some visitors are looking for these two programs and I wanted to tell y’all that are searching for them that they’re no longer here.

I’ve been using Eventum from the MySQL people for issue / bug tracking on a couple of my projects and stumbled upon a pretty slick little feature today that I didn’t know about. Maybe if I had actually read the manual I would have known, but here we are.

If you write in ‘issue #123′ in the initial description field it will create a link to issue number 123 when you view your issue.