Author Archives: Steve Lindstrom
In /etc/hosts We Trust
This article will help you to prevent yourself from being unproductive by showing you how to block websites using your /etc/hosts file. Continue reading
On Being Thankful
Entrepreneurship Today is Thanksgiving. I woke up and the first thing I thought about was business and entrepreneurship and how excited I was to work on a project I’ve been planning (details coming soon). I walked upstairs, fired up the … Continue reading
Modular Zend Framework Application & Virtual Hosts Guide
Since I have a bad memory when it comes to this sort of thing I made a guide for myself that illustrates how to create a modular Zend Framework application and also how to set up virtual hosts. Download the … Continue reading
$this, $(this), this, and this (again)
Javascript is a fickle bitch. That’s why I love her so much – one second everything is great, and the next you’re getting owned. Hard. Luckily, there’s frameworks out there, like jQuery, that help make things a little easier, though … Continue reading
A Whole Bunch of Stuff
I post fairly infrequently, but usually when I do, I’ll write the post on localhost, then upload it here. Not doing that this time since I’m feeling impatient and bored. Not sure why/if that’s relevant. This’ll be a long-ish post … Continue reading
Apple Almost Got It Right With Time Machine
Today (as I type this, actually) I’m backing up my MacBook Pro using Time Machine and it’s pretty good. But I think they still got it wrong. When you go to back your stuff up, Apple assumes you want to … Continue reading
The Dark Art of SEO…
Today I received an e-mail from someone that found my horribly incomplete website through Twitter (which is pretty cool! (…that they found me, not that I haven’t finished this site yet…)) that was looking for help with SEO on their … Continue reading
Fake Out Google API With Virtual Hosts
If you’re like me you have a ton of projects that are half way done because you go off on tangents learning to implement cool things, like stuff from Google’s APIs. Here’s how it usually goes down: Come up with … Continue reading