MacBook vs. MacBookPro

Does CPU speed matter for gaming on a Mac Laptop? The difference between, for example, 2.4 Ghz and 2.6 Ghz will be negligible when running the games. What will contribute to the smoothness and quality of the games the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and to an extent bus speed, CPU cache and RAM. When it


MAMP vhost and WordPress

I’ve setup MAMP to do some local web development on my MacBookPro, and the XDebug plugin is awesome for stepping through PHP code. However, I had a problem with MAMP and a vhost I setup for local development. The wordpress front page and /wp-admin/ worked but any sub pages, etc. failed to load. When trying


Whyday comes and goes

If you’re a tech head, and you’ve been around Object Orientated languages – then you’ve surely heard of Ruby. I’ve been around people who are passionate about Ruby, but never caught the bug. What I did do whilst others were programming away, was read about ruby. One day whilst reading I came across the name


Exponential World

We ARE living in exponential times, as this video clearly documents. I first saw this video at Eastman’s Genealogy website. Original research of the figure and facts is by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman.