http://www.mygeeknotes.com Blogs, links, tutorials, howtos, notes, and reviews from geeks ... about geeky things ... for geeks. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:33:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A coworker's brother did this at their company competition.I may just have to hit McDonald's for lunch now. http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/10/18/da-da-da-da-daaaa-im-lovin-it-mcpumpkin-pic/ I learned a few new things about the Javascript Date object today: When using this constructor: new Date(year, month, day);, month is 0 based. So, if you want to create a date object for September 30, 2007, it would look like this: new Date(2007, 8, 30); It's far better to use ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/10/02/javascript-and-the-date-object/ So, you know me, I'm always conducting experiments to find ways to drive traffic to Web sites. Recently, I decided to try my hand at a little video blogging - working to get a single site of user-generated content to $500/month. While the site's not at that point yet, it's starting ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/07/31/new-digg-account-packs-punch/ Here are some pictures of some amazing balloon art (32 pics). My favorite ones are the full suit of armor and the life size couch. I got them forwarded to me in an email with no reference of their origin so if you know anything, please let me ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/06/26/amazing-balloon-art/ So... it's been a while since I have posted anything and I'm starting to have withdraws. But I just haven't been inspired enough about anything lately to write a post. That all changed today. I just discovered a designer's web site that has really inspired me to create better work. The ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/06/20/sweet-designer/ I don't know how many times I've wanted to install a self-generated certificate on a development web server so I could test stuff with SSL. It has always been such a pain to do with IIS 6 and Server 2003 that I usually just hoped that it would work ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/06/20/vista-and-iis7-certificates/ Well, I've had a little free time here in "NorCal" – and I've spent some of that free time messing around with Art Rage 2. I'm continually being impressed by the programs ease of use and it's robustness. When you first sit down with Art Rage 2 - ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/06/16/art-rage-2-landscape-painting/ Well I'm finally starting to settle-in here in the greater Sacramento area. It's been a crazy ride but well worth it! I'm really enjoying my new employment at Sibling Systems. As many of you know I was asked to re-locate to Northern California to help take Sibling ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/06/05/northern-california-web-design-specialists/ I can't help but get really excited about XMBC getting a Linux port. I've got a modded XBox that I use to play a variety of media formats: XVID, DVD, MP3, MP4, etc. It'll even act as a karaoke machine if you have CDG files to go along ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/05/30/xbmc-to-linux/ Recently, I've been using Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (TFS) for source control. Both my last job and my current job use it and as a Microsoft developer, and so, whether I like it or not, I expect to see a lot more of it in the future; but that's ... http://www.mygeeknotes.com/2007/05/29/kdiff-with-team-foundation-server/