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Technology Career Advice for the Masses

Recently I received an email from a soon to graduate high school student and a college student both asking for technology career advice.  While I miss the days that I contemplated being an architect, carpenter or CPA, I can honestly say picking up technology was the most rewarding choice I've ever made.

Here's the request from the high school student:

Write Comment / 0 commentsJanuary 08, 2010, 11:52:16 AM by mrtech

How to enhance YOURLS for spam control/throttling, unshortening and weekly stats

So I've been using YOURLS link shortener PHP code to power mrte.ch.  YOURLS is a fantastic system created by Ozh Richard – @Ozh on Twitter and Lester Chan – @GamerZ on Twitter.

The latest updates are incredible and provide tons of features and control but there were a couple of spots that I've enhanced:

• pre-validating URL/link,
• site blacklisting,
• domain spam throttling,...

Write Comment / 24 commentsDecember 08, 2009, 11:45:11 AM by mrtech

Upgraded to Mac Snow Leopard & asking 'what happened to my Safari Plug-ins?'

Thanks to several sources like the folks over at Unity, OSNews and TUAW I now have some answers.

Background

It basically comes down to the fact that Apple's Mac OS 10.6 aka...

Write Comment / 0 commentsSeptember 11, 2009, 01:03:32 PM by mrtech

Using Mozilla Firefox Test Builds Yet? Live on the edge without bleeding?

Ok, so I'm a total Mozilla Firefox bleeding edge builds fanboy. This is mostly a very smooth and rewarding experience but at times have found myself rebuilding over and over again to get back to where I was.  There are mostly three types of builds:

- Released
- Beta
- Nightly/Trunk

Released is just that, stuff that been released, while beta is just about to be released and need some testing love.  Nightly builds are for the strong of will, who know to expect great new features and po...

Write Comment / 0 commentsAugust 02, 2009, 07:48:35 PM by mrtech

MR Tech Twitter Bookmarklet, Link Shortening #yawn, Why Bother?

Welll I finally decided that half a billion twitter apps, hacks and tweaks wheren't enough to fill the void of features that I wanted so I'm officially kicking off my Tech Tweet efforts.  I have several ideas that I'm working on and will be rolling them out, but I wanted to start up with a simple bookmarklet and work my way up.

Heavily inspired by the myopiclunacy.com bookmarklet demo, I've begun my own effort ...

Write Comment / 0 commentsJuly 25, 2009, 09:02:42 PM by mrtech