Archive for September, 2008

So, you may not know this, but today is Eric’s one year anniversary with Solid Cactus.  Ok,  it’s not really today, it’s tomorrow October 1st, but I wanted this post to be there when he checks first thing in the morning, and seeing how it’s getting harder and harder to get to work before this [...]

So, I came in this weekend to get some work done in preparation for the holiday rush, and what do I see?  Sam, George, and Lindsey coding away.  It seems we all had the same idea.  That was so awesome!  Nothing like a little impromptu coding party to make your day!
In other news of generally [...]

You may have heard about the generous Pizza lunch that came our way yesterday http://blog.solidcactus.com/news/pizza-for-the-programmers/
So Jeff suggested we whip up a little Pizza of our own.  (Thanks to Joel and Ryan for their awesome Photoshop skills)

I just wanted to congratulate Warren on his totally awesome safety trigger for the publish button.  It’s completely sweet and will save somebody a LOT of grief one day.  Way to go!  Hopefully coming soon to a website near you.

Nintendo recently announced a special edition Nintendo DS to support breast cancer. Each pink-ribbon adorned unit sold will result in a $5 donation from Nintendo to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. A minimum donation of $100,000 is guaranteed.

So with this hectic week finally nearing an end. I am thinking about a good hearty dinner to make this weekend. I have decided to make my famous turkey cutlets with cranberry dressing. In addition I am thinking sweet potato casserole, stuffing, and green beans. Now the question is.. what to make for dessert??? hmm..

Whether you admit it or not, at some point in your life you’ve thought about how awesome an Easy Bake Oven was. The concept of a little lightbulb making delicious treats is ingenius. Well, as an adult, who said that has to stop? Introducting the PC EZ-bake Oven! (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml) Fits into any 5 1/4 bay [...]

So, the LHC won’t be killing us all any time soon.  (Which is a shame, because I really do think that having a pet black hole would be really cool, no matter how quickly it evaporated.)  It seems they have a helium leak that they won’t be able to fix in short order.  Combine that [...]

Day 2 of the infamous Woot Off is under way and boy do they have a lot of junk? (http://www.woot.com) Each new item is a new test of my will power to stopping myself from making impulse purchases. Regardless the amount of junk out there, I’m determined to buy my first random bag of crap, [...]

Wanna see something neat? There’s been a little buzz around here about how fast Google Chrome renders Javascript. Well over the past few weeks I’ve been looking into different Javascript Frameworks and their speed and functionality. I came across this site to see the differences. I got to thinking, “I wonder how fast Chrome would [...]