With the guidance of Apress's Beginning iPhone 3 Development, I was able to create my first iPhone App in less than two hours. While the book's first chapter used the classic yet very boring Hello World example, I knew I'd need to spice things up in order to keep my interest. Over the past few weeks, I've been playing …

I found a link to this site on Facebook's SQL Server Magazine fanpage. Free Fundamental CDs for IT Pros and Developers While you can order the CDs, I just went ahead and downloaded the zip files. The SQL Server CD is pretty basic, but I still managed to learn something from it =)

Natively booting OS X and Windows 7 on a hella fine Dell Mini is initially challenging but well worth the reward of being the coolest nerd on the block. Here's what you'll need to accomplish this task:

1. Windows 7 DVD
2. Leopard Retail Vanilla (I have 10.5.6)
3. External USB Drive
4. External CD/DVD drive
5. DellMiniBoot123v8 …

Over the past week, I've installed Windows 7 and OS X more times than I can count. In attempting to figure out the easiest way to dual boot Windows 7 and OS X, I've also partitioned my drive a good 30+ times. So.. after messing up with an EFI bootloader, I was suddenly unable to re-install Windows 7. I encountered the …

Ugh, eff a GUID formatted disk! This is by far the easiest way to get OS X Leopard (Retail/Vanilla) to install on an MBR formatted disk. I've gone through about 400 other tutorials and most were so complex. This method, which consists of about 20 simple steps has worked like a charm so far. I suggest reading the …

Recently, I used my Windows-based domain's Enterprise Root Certification Authority to secure my subversion repository that is hosted on an Apache-based server. The process was rather straight-forward and relatively fast -- especially because I skipped over all of the file transfers and just used vi/notepad to …

I finally took the plunge and installed Windows 7 on my Dell Netbook (Inspiron mini iM10-008B). I originally bought the Dell to make it into a Hackbook but after I realized how time-intensive the initial setup may be, I looked to installing Win 7 for instant newness gratification.

Initially, I was going to install the …

Some things just belong on Linux. Like Subversion and Apache, for instance. I've seen the ghetto workarounds for Windows-based Apache installs and no thanks -- I'd much rather waste my time on ghetto SharePoint workarounds.

But I sure do like the way Windows-based web servers such as IIS seamlessly and securely …

This was ridiculous. Since apache-devel isn't available in SLES (and I do understand why, but give me the option at least!), I had to sync up one of my SLES machines to an OpenSuSE repository and get all of my necessary packages required to compile mod_auth_pam. I was required to downgrade quite a few packages, but …

Thank Science for SuSE Linux Enterprise 11; it's made this process relatively easy. SLES 10 SP2 was giving me a headache because of some Windows 2008 based Active Directory authentication issues but upgrading SLES 11 took care of all that.

First thing is first, setup samba to authenticate to AD. Next, install the …