Ben Stewart

freelance web developer/designer

Tag: geek

My WordPress development setup

The other day a friend of mine asked me how I develop WordPress themes on my computer because he wants to switch his blog over to WP from Blogger. After going through some of the basics in 140-character chunks, I thought it might be easier just to explain my WP development setup here on the [...]

Dock rock!

When I first started to jump into the world of standards-based web design one of the guys I followed online was The Man in Blue (Cameron Adams). Aside from being a Javascript ninja, apparently he’s also a music video master… geek style. Here is a recent post of his with a link to the geek-chic [...]

Geek tip for Mac users: ajaxserver (Not Responding)

I’m going to warn you up front that this is going to be a geek-only post. However, this is information that should live multiple places online so I’m going to post it right here on the ol’ blog. I’ve been paying attention to my Activity Monitor on my Macbook Pro recently. This is mainly because [...]

Exporting your stuff from Evernote

I really like Evernote. I suggest it to a lot of people, especially anyone who owns an iPhone. Evernote makes it so easy to take a picture, write a note, or record some audio on your iPhone and retreive it later on your Mac, PC, or even online. This has so many potential uses from [...]

IE takes the lead

Well, it’s a bit of a sad day here on the blog. Ever since Shaun made encouraged me to start a blog I have become a bit of a stats junkie. By that I mean that every day (whether I post or not) I check all of the numbers of people who have visited my [...]

Server Problems

WARNING: Geeky content ahead. I’m really just writing this in case anyone else ever has this same problem and is searching for a result. I don’t know if anyone noticed, but apparently my hosting company had some server issues yesterday resulting in my site (along with some others, I’m sure) being down most of the [...]