Funkadelic Playground Thoughts from The Shrop

I presented a brief intro to jQuery at UNC Charlotte's Web Developer's Group meeting on June 27th, 2008. If you want to check out the slides, they are linked below:

What's jQuery Presentation

Very interesting stats here. Thanks to http://twitter.com/godsmac for letting me know about this article via Twitter.

[From FOXNews.com - Americans: My Faith Isn't the Only Way to Heaven - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News]

After 90 shows, Steve Stanger is stopping production on The Mac Attack podcast. His web site will remain online for the foreseeable future due to the donations of some of his listeners. Steve is going to pursue other projects, including podcasts. He has not ruled out starting The Mac Attack back up at some point.

The accuracy (or alleged inaccuracy) of the Bible is often a topic brought up by non-believers. Let's face it, if the Bible isn't accurate, how can one believe. I found this comparison between ancient texts to be very interesting. Thanks to http://twitter.com/mxbx for publishing on his blog.

[From Sola Scriptura- Is the Bible we have today the same Bible from 1900 years ago? « The Path of Redemption]

I am just not a fan of drop down menus. I think they should be avoided at all cost. They don't always work in every browser and they can become a usability and accessibility issue. Jeffery Zeldman sums it up nicely: http://bobchristenson.tumblr.com/post/38016909/when-i-see-a-drop-down-me...

I needed to install just the FTP service on Windows 2003 Server for one simple use case. The article below details how to accomplish this without installing full blown IIS (which I didn't need and do not want to run on this server).

[From How To Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003]

The video below would have saved me a ton of time yesterday! Thanks to www.appleiphoneschool.com for the news on this video.

I was jazzed about the WWDC Keynote before it started yesterday. I was all setup with twitter, ichat, plurk, macrumors, engadget, ustream audio, etc. The live ustream audio feed was very helpful. Thanks to my friends for pointing me to that link. I will catch the full video tonight on my AppleTV so I can get the full experience.

I had a great time yesterday playing drums with the Rocky River Community Church Band at UNC Charlotte. We played the Staff Picnic for the second year in a row. We were not rained out this year, but the 97 degree heat beat us down pretty bad. We still had a great time and received a warm response from many of the picnic goers. Thanks to my band mates for volunteering to help out by playing at the event.

I am a big fan of subverison. I current use a combination of TextMate, ZigVersion and command line SVN to work with Subversion for my University development at UNC Charlotte.