JC Web Concepts

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I'm a full stack Javascript engineer. I enjoy creating all types of websites and create tutorials on my spare time.

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  1. Moving to Gatsby
    March 12, 2022

    What I Used Before For the longest time I have been using Empress Blog as my blogging framework. This framework is built using EmberJS…

  2. August 29, 2021

    So as I always like to do every once in awhile, I decided to re-install my M1 Mac Mini and oh man the troubles I had were just ridiculous…

  3. New Provider
    August 28, 2020

    So I was looking at what I was paying for Wordpress and just felt I could save some money. The old blog will still exist, I just will not…

  4. August 26, 2020

    Sometimes you have to work with API’s that are not following a certain standard. When working with these types of API’s, Ember data will not…

  5. August 21, 2020

    So I was interviewing someone for a role with my company and during the part where you ask the person, “Do you have any questions for me…

  6. May 24, 2019

    I know that this is not a new add on or anything like that, but man did I misjudge the power of this Vim add on. For the longest time I…

  7. Using Docker at Work for Local Development
    June 18, 2018

    At the company I work for we wanted to setup Docker so local developers do not have to do all this work to get their machines configured for…

  8. Office Upgrade
    August 06, 2017

    So, when I moved into our new house 3 yrs ago, my only requirement was I have my own office. In my last house I was stuck in the basement…

  9. My Switch to Neovim
    June 21, 2017

    For the longest time I have been hopping from editor to editor. I have used Notepad++, Sublime Text, Atom, and recently Visual Studio Code…

  11. Elementary OS
    November 04, 2016

    So some of my Twitter followers have started to talk up, using a Linux OS called ElementaryOS. Its suppose to give you the look and feel of…

  12. November 03, 2016

    So I finally converted all my posts and they are back into Wordpress. So now you are probably asking yourself, what is next? Is this site…

  13. November 02, 2016

    After a long time away, I have decided to move back to Wordpress. I was using Octopress for the longest but figured it was time to move back…

  14. Hello World
    May 01, 2015

    Hello World

  15. February 02, 2013

    As an automation developer, I have learned how to write code in Java. When I am having an issue, one of the nice things that you can do is…

  17. August 08, 2012

    I finally took the plunge and converted from iPhone to Android. I just bought the Samsung Galaxy S3. I guess buying the Samsung Galaxy Tab…

  20. May 14, 2012

    Well this past week Adobe has launched their new cloud service called, Adobe Creative Cloud. As of launch they are charging a monthly fee of…

  21. March 04, 2012

    I just bought a few weeks ago a new MacBook Pro and I love it. So now it was time to setup my computer to use rvm and Octopress. So I logged…

  22. January 04, 2012

    So I have switched from SVN to Git and I am very happy about it. When I am at work I am stuck using SVN and I hate it. So I learned about a…

  23. December 14, 2011

    So the other day, it was announced that the alpha release of TextMate2 was available for licensed users of TextMate So I decided to make a…

  24. December 12, 2011

    I have decided to leave the world of Wordpress, for the world of Octopress. I will have some tutorials on this blogging framework but there…

  25. December 02, 2011

    One of the nice features in MacOSX is the use of Spotlight. I hardly use icons anymore and just hit command+space and type what I need…

  26. October 20, 2011

    I would like to take an opportunity to show you an example of how to developer a simple php contact page. I will not use css or anything…

  27. October 10, 2011

    As many bloggers have already done, we have lost someone this past week that was dear to a lot of Mac fanboys. He will be missed but I am…

  28. June 04, 2011

    Blogofile is a simple blogging engine that brings something nice without the use of a database. I have been testing this out and I am…

  29. April 27, 2011

    One thing that I have always wanted to do was dual boot my Mac computer so I could run Linux on real hardware instead of emulation. This…

  30. March 25, 2011

    This is part 6 of my using Linux for everything blog posts. Some time ago, if you wanted to listen to music or watch videos, you ran into…

  32. February 26, 2011

    This is part 5 of my using Linux for everything blog posts. As a web developer I started to use Photoshop. As I started to use Linux I…

  34. January 26, 2011

    So this is part 3 of my replace Linux everywhere blog. In this part we will be discussing web browsing. So looking at browsers the only…

  35. January 24, 2011

    So continuing on with my series of the question if Linux can replace it all, we are going to talk about email. For me I use e-mail at home…

  36. January 21, 2011

    So a colleague and I have a long commute and we are always talking about Linux and technology. We listen to podcasts after podcasts and in…

  39. November 30, 2010

    One of the things that a lot of people over look when coding is adding comments to it. Everyone should comment their code and there is no…

  41. October 29, 2010

    I wanted to get into showing you the basics of TextMate. If you talk to a lot of Apple users and ask them what is the best text editor they…

  42. October 20, 2010

    As a web developer one of the things you look for is a good editor to use to code your projects. When I was using Windows I would use and…

  43. September 30, 2010

    Well I thought I would write this quick blog post to let my readers know that I am now a partner on YouTube. There are many benefits to be…

  44. September 27, 2010

    As a web developer I find that I write some code that I reuse and or have to write and copy and paste a few times. Well with this addon I…

  45. July 27, 2010

    I was asked to write my experiences when using Parallels on my Mac. So I thought I would make a blog post about this at the same time to…

  48. July 09, 2010

    So with me the past few days learning jQuery, I thought I would redesign my site again. This time I have used jQuery in a few places to…

  49. July 05, 2010

    I am sorry for the people that do follow my blog here that I have not been active lately. I have started a new job that has been taking all…

  52. April 01, 2010

    Well I have decided to jump back into Java programming due to some recent events. I went out and bought Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours…

  53. March 31, 2010

    Ok I know this type of post is not like me but I thought I would post it since I needed to research on how to do this. Well a lot of my…

  54. March 25, 2010

    As a web developer one of the tools that I love to use is built right into the operating system. I have come across some jobs where the…

  55. March 17, 2010

    When I first learned Linux about 12 years ago I started off using Red Hat. You guys who have used it long enough remember the day when you…

  56. March 08, 2010

    For the next few weeks I will be working on a new Wordpress theme. I will post when it is complete so please do not judge my themes till I…

  58. February 15, 2010

    One of the things that people talk about in the computer world is password strength. They talk about how you should not use the same…

  60. January 07, 2010

    Are you running a Linux or Unix server that there are process you need to automate? Is there a daily process that are just a waist of your…

  61. December 23, 2009

    If you have been reading previous blog posts, I have been using a monitoring tool called Zenoss. Under the hood there is a lot of Python…

  62. December 11, 2009

    One of the things I have never been strong in is layout design. If you look at most of the sites I have done, there blah. Colors are limited…

  63. December 10, 2009

    When I first started working with Linux one of the tools I disregarded was VIM. I felt it to be too confusing and believed it was not worth…

  65. November 18, 2009

    One of the things I never understood after installing Zenoss, was where is this mysql database. I found out that with Zenoss it sets up it’s…

  67. November 08, 2009

    Today I went to a Zenoss training in Baltimore MD. This is a training that usually costs around $1500 USD to attend. They are offering this…

  69. October 29, 2009

    I am sorry that my theme was not allowing people to post comments. I have fixed that now and if you hit the comments link in the upper right…

  70. October 29, 2009

    I was doing a YouTube challenge for Chris Pirillo and thought I would do it on the great SVN client called Versions. You might have…

  71. October 28, 2009

    Well I know the first thing that people are saying is, “Oh no not another distro debate.” I myself hate these debates so I am going to try…

  72. October 21, 2009

    Zenoss is a monitoring tool that everyone should start to look at. In the past when you mention system monitoring software, people would say…

  73. October 18, 2009

    Yesterday October 18, 2009 I went to and Open source conference in Harrisburg PA called CPOSC(Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference…

  74. October 13, 2009

    Well I have been in search for a great text editor for my Mac and I might have found one. I have tried demos of BBEdit, Text Wrangler, and…

  75. October 08, 2009

    I am starting to develop my own World Of Warcraft website. You are probably asking me why am I doing this? Well when I was playing it was…

  76. October 01, 2009

    So I was thinking the other day about how I have not gotten a new PS3 game lately. I went onto EB Games to see some cool games but they are…

  77. September 18, 2009

    So while looking for a good SVN client the other day, I found one called Versions. This application comes with a free 21 day trial. If you…

  78. September 14, 2009

    In one of my previous tutorials I showed you how to setup an SVN server. So now that is setup I am sure your next question is how do I use…

  79. September 12, 2009

    Well it appears that Apple has released the next version of the iPhone/ iPod Touch software. I have played around with the new software and…

  80. September 10, 2009

    Today an employee at my job requested that I install an application called FreeMind. FreeMind is an application that you can take your ideas…

  81. September 03, 2009

    SVN (which stands for Subversion) is a version control system. So let me speak some english here for you. Lets say you make a website for a…

  82. August 28, 2009

    Well I got Snow Leopard. I was excited at first cause I was thinking of the great features. After installing it I realized that I did not…

  83. August 18, 2009

    Well earlier today I was looking around and I found an article about an application for Linux called WineXS. This application is a front end…

  84. August 13, 2009

    Well today at work I was given a task to backup a server then reformat the machine and setup a new one. So I sat to think about how am I…

  85. August 11, 2009

    Well at work I have been messing with a server application call Nagios. This app is used to monitor your servers for certain issues. It can…

  86. August 08, 2009

    So I thought I would write up a tutorial on how to install a web server that will support Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I will go over some…

  87. July 28, 2009

    Well coming from the 1st Gen iPod Touch it is a relief to have the iPhone. Now the version I got was the one with EDGE and not 3g. So far I…

  88. July 24, 2009

    So it appears that Ubuntu wants to make a service that is working off the concept of Mobile Me’s, iDisk. Ubuntu One per their site is quoted…

  89. July 23, 2009

    Well I just finished playing my first game of Madden 2010. I was shocked cause I thought the gang tackling would have happened all the time…

  90. July 21, 2009

    For all you users out there that are Mac guys like me, there is an app called AppFresh. This application is a tool that will scan for your…

  91. July 19, 2009

    With my hosting package with 1and1 I get 2 free domain names. So I used 1 domain for my blog here and the other for my portfolio. Today I…

  92. July 18, 2009

    Well I just took the dive an upgraded to the 2.8 Version of wordpress. It was not difficult. I just used a backup utility for the database…

  93. July 14, 2009

    Well I started looking into Cocoa programming so I could develop some Mac applications. So here is my first tutorial on how to develop using…

  94. July 07, 2009

    Well after much debate it appears that I will be getting an iPhone. Now it is not going to be the 3G or the 3GS but that is ok. So of course…

  95. July 07, 2009

    I was looking around and I thru bits of pieces of pages I found out how to make your own ringtones to use for your iPhone. Now I am not sure…

  96. July 02, 2009

    There is a toy that my little girl Lucia loves to listen too. It winds up and plays Mozart pieces. One day as I was turning it to make it…

  97. June 23, 2009

    So the other day I downloaded the demo of NCAA 2010 for the Playstation 3. Now I have not played a college football game in a very long time…

  98. June 19, 2009

    Well on the 17th of this month the software was released for the new iPod Touch software. Now this review is geared towards the 1st…

  99. June 10, 2009

    I thought I would give an update on what is going on with me learning how to code. My resume has been getting beefed up. So now what I…

  100. June 10, 2009

    Well in past I have always wanted to use this service and never did. Safari Books Online is a service that you pay a monthly fee. Now what…

  102. May 29, 2009

    So I decided to look at Apple Scripting and I will tell you it is not that bad. I still have to kind the site that has all the built-in…

  103. May 27, 2009

    Etherpad is an application that is based off java that allows multiple people at the same time to update multiple documents. Now I realize…

  104. May 24, 2009

    Well since I am no longer playing wow, what should be my next game? The only thing is it needs to be for Mac OS. So any ideas?

  105. May 23, 2009

    That is it. I am just dam tired of this game. I just went to WoW site and cancelled my service. Now this is not for the money. Please $1…

  106. May 22, 2009

    So I have been thinking that it may be time for me to learn another programming language. I have thought for some time now and since I have…

  107. May 19, 2009

    At work today a colleague and I were talking about software for web development. He then asked me about an application called Aptana. I have…

  109. May 16, 2009

    One of the things I looked at when I bought my first Mac, was Mobile Me . This is a service from Apple that helps you out. Are you the type…

  110. May 14, 2009

    Well I have been looking at an application for the Mac call Xcode . With this application you can create applications for the Mac and the…

  111. May 13, 2009

    So let me start of to say that I am an owner of the iPod Touch. Now I am going to be honest here and have played a little with the iPhone…

  112. May 12, 2009

    So a few months ago my friend showed me Amazon’s kindle. This non-colored display was used to read books. I kinda thought it was stupid due…

  113. May 11, 2009

    While playing World of Warcraft you will sometime get these spam messages about buying gold. There are websites out there that you can pay…

  114. May 09, 2009

    Yesterday a friend of mine let me borrow a games for the Playstation 3 called Uncharted Drake’s Fortune . Now I do realize that this game is…

  115. May 08, 2009

    A fellow colleague told me about an application that he was told was a must. CSSH is an application that allows you to send a command to…

  117. May 07, 2009

    In yesterdays blog I was talking about screen recording. And of course don’t you know it I found a free one that I really like. It is still…

  118. May 06, 2009

    Today I received in the mail a free hat from New Egg. I thought that was very nice of them to do that.

  119. May 06, 2009

    So I am seeing that it is time that I have to get a screen recording software for the mac. I have been using a Ustream and that is just not…

  120. May 06, 2009

    I am just testing a wordpress plugin to see if it will send a tiny link to twitter for me.

  121. May 05, 2009

    Well I decided to go ahead and make this site a wordpress templated site. I have heard that this is the new thing people are doing instead…