The company let me come to Los Angeles at the end of September.  Before you continue reading I should let everyone know that I’ve never been outside Hampton Roads without a parent or sudo guardian present (this includes our trip to DC for HostingCon in August 2009). So I land in LA on Monday night off of a delayed flight from Cincinnati. I checked into the Westin airport hotel and after dropping off my stuff, I changed and then left the hotel to explore the area and see what’s aro... Read Full Story

So it all started when my site got lol’d last week..my old Twitter account is suspended for seemingly no reason, and I get this when I log in: So yea, I have started a new twitter account because the little jerks refuse to unsuspend my old one.  You can follow my at http://twitter.com/vanessavasile Read Full Story

To all you sexy programmers out there… I got a tip from my contact form the other day about a “Super Sexy Mortgage Calculator Contest” going on at the Virginia Mortgage Research Center.  They’re holding a contest for the sexiest mortgage calculator, and shoveling out $10,000 to the winner.  You can get complete details here: http://www.mortgageloanplace.com/mortgage-calculator.php I’m too busy nowadays so I’m not going to be participating in this one, but t... Read Full Story

I was looking around for some web data scraping software and came across Mozenda.com, which is a [paid] Web Scraper and web data mining software that parses web data in a variety of formats, like CSV, RSS, and XML.  I signed up for the trial and the software really did do what it claimed to, [...] Read Full Story

So I now know what happens when you don’t upgrade Wordpress for half a year.  Yes, I admit that my site’s theme was hacked with some nasty Javascript inserts that ended up getting me tagged by Google for the second time now.  Luckily nothing was that much out of place,but a couple of my posts [...] Read Full Story

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In case anyone out there was wondering what we at InMotion Hosting do here in the east coast office when the sun goes down: Nerf Guns! Read Full Story

A lot of people don’t realize how easy it is to write an API with PHP. It really is as easy as having a simple PHP script accepting GET variables, and when you add in some security, you can pretty much do anything you want with a single script that accepts variables from any authenticated source.  So a little while ago I posted about the new cPanel XML API and how to integrate that with your own scripts - well now, I’ll use that as an example to show you how to write an API for th... Read Full Story

So if you read my post a little while back about my lasting suspicion that my roommates and I are giving room and board to a few unwanted furry little bastards, I can now confirm that my suspicion is correct. On Christmas eve I was doing some dishes and I noticed that Capone was staring blankly at a cabinet by the refrigerator. After Harley joined him and they both sat and stared at one for a good 10 minutes, I figured they just wanted something in the cabinet so I opened it up to see what... Read Full Story

For Christmas this year my sisters and I bought my mom a Pomeranian that she named Teddy (though my sisters and dad subsequently named him Simon, Maverick, Titus, and Leo). Side note: here’s documented evidence that my Dad does indeed like dogs: Now ask me why it took me 17 years to beg my dad for a dog, and I still didn’t get one until I was 20 when I was already out of the house. Anyways, we in the Vasile household believe that pets are as much part of a family as people are... Read Full Story