Creating Dynamic Menus with PHP and CSS

Want to pep up your web page with some dynamic menus? Here’s a simple solution that only requires a few lines of PHP and CSS.

UPDATE (11/1/08): Simplified the header code and edited the syntax of the list element echo code.

Turn your old PC into a hardware firewall with IPCop

So you’ve got a 10-year old PC sitting around the house. You’re sick of your cats always getting into the wires and knocking the darn thing over. You don’t want to throw it away, but you just don’t know what to do with it. Well my friend…

Free Alternative Lightweight Software for Windows (Part 1)

Sick of your computer running like molasses? Tired of having to perform that annual (semi-annual?) reformat and installation of your operating system? Do you wish your computer just ran faster? Well maybe some free alternative…

Calculate the first Friday of next month with PHP

While developing phx2600.org, I ran into a slight dilemma. The PHX2600 meetings occur once a month on the first Friday of every month, and we wanted to display that on the site. However, it was becoming a tedious chore to change the date once a…

BlackBerry Storm Unboxing

I went to the Verizon store at 10am the day of release and they said they had sold out ~2 hours before I got…

Free Alternative Lightweight Software for Windows (Part 2)

Part 2 of my Free Alternative Lightweight Software for Windows will cover basic security and performance enhancing/maintenance tools.

How Geek am I?

So, Gizmodo had a list of 50 skills every geek should know. Seeing as I choose to don the title of “Geek” I feel obligated to see how many of these skills I posses.

Skills marked in Bold are skill I have and have used, or have all the essential knowledge to perform without…