I found this quick and very informative article and thought I should share! It deals with all of those pressing questions you may have about the PNG file format and why you should/should not use it. [via]

I stumbled across this site the other day… well actually a long time ago, but just the other day I found it again because of a link for a free online ruby course.  Figured ‘what the hell’ I’ve got nothing to lose.  So it starts in the second week of January right before I start my other ‘brick and mortar’ courses.  We will have to see how that goes.  I am excited though.  It is nice to see that he has a defined course outline and suggested timeline for getting things done.  In the past I have taken an online course but it didn’t...

I’ve been getting back into Rails lately now that school is over and with the new 2.0 release there has been quite a few changes. The biggest change for me is the whole REST thing. The concept doesn’t seem that hard for me, it’s the dang coding that is getting me hung up. Using the scaffold has let me see what rails generated code would look like, so that’s cool. My problem seems to be in that my controller is nested in a module for the admin section. To get me started I checked out the fantastic Peepcode episode on RESTful Rails and really hit it home with a screencast...

Now I don’t know how much I agree with Portal being a perfect game, but damn was it well crafted. It’s short and to the point puzzle solving goodness. I don’t get to play a whole lot of games, but my fiancée went out to the movies one Saturday night and I got to actually finish Portal. It’s cool because every level gives you a little bit more challenge and a little bit more off-the-wall humor (which I thoroughly enjoy!). By the time my fiance came home, I was listening to the end credits song…which is awesome by the way. So yeah for me…I beat a game. Put...

In a recent interview before a club concert, Curtis James Jackson III, aka 50 Cent gave some very interesting and well thought answers to questions regarding file sharing and the future of the music industry.  After responding that his label (G-Unit Records) was not doing so good, 50 Cent also added this interesting tidbit.  “The advances in technology impacts everyone, and we all must adapt. Most of all hip-hop, a style of music dependent upon a youthful audience. This market consists of individuals embracing innovations faster than the fans of classical and jazz music.” “What...