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Installing PEAR on OS X 10.6.8

December 28th, 2011

This quick guide describes the process for getting PEAR (a PHP package management utility) installed on OS X.

Tech Startup Entrepreneur Books

November 26th, 2011

These are my recommendations for two great books if you are an entrepreneur in the tech startup space.

I’ll be at Zend Con 2011, come say hi!

September 8th, 2011

If you’re going to Zend Con 2011, and you’re a regular reader, give me a shout on the contact form and maybe we can meet up!

Google Music Manager: Only two accounts can be used per computer

June 1st, 2011

This explains the limitations of Google Music Manager, and why it may not work on your computer.

Ceasing all Client Web Development

April 4th, 2011

From now on, Renowned Media is only building web apps, no more websites for clients.

Enabling Anti-Aliasing in the NetBeans Editor

March 26th, 2011

Recently, I’ve begun playing with the idea of using Linux on my development machine. I’ve used several distro’s before, but that time I wanted something a little more slim. I liked the look of Crunchbang Linux right out of the box. It comes with OpenBox (a lightweight BlackBox/FluxBox type window manager which I had used [...]

NeoInvoice to be presented at Refresh Detroit

March 1st, 2011

We will be presenting NeoInvoice at Refresh Detroit on March 24th! If you are in the area swing on by and catch the presentation. This presentation will be a quick overview of all aspects of the application, including the recently added features. We will be giving out a free agency account coupon code for all [...]

CodeIgniter 2 vs Kohana 3

February 28th, 2011

We’ve been doing more research into different PHP frameworks. We’ve been using CodeIgniter for a few projects recently (e.g. NeoInvoice, StockPyle, ObsceneArt 2.0 (WIP), Squirrelify, and a Martial Arts school software), but are starting to feel the limitations. CodeIgniter makes development a breeze. There is a common method for loading external resources, connecting to databases, [...]

Firefox 4 VS Internet Explorer 9 Benchmark Comparison

January 14th, 2011

I just ran Microsoft’s FishIETank test in both Firefox 4 (Beta) and Internet Explorer 9 (Beta) browsers, simultaneously, on the same machine. The machine has pretty good specs (8GB, 4×2.5 Ghz). Firefox had a framerate averaging about 59 FPS, while Internet Explorer had an average of 49 FPS, which gives Firefox a 17% performance advantage [...]

StockPyle: A Home Inventory Tracking System (for Insurance Claims)

January 12th, 2011

Meet StockPyle, our latest web application. StockPyle is and always will be 100% free. Use StockPyle to keep track of your home inventory, particularly useful when it comes to insurance claims. The problem with traditional methods for keeping track of home inventory is that these records are usually kept with pencil and paper, and are [...]

Retiring Two Facebook Apps

December 24th, 2010

About six months ago, Facebook removed their “Boxes” feature. This feature, as most readers are aware, allowed users to setup applications to put content on their profiles. Two of our applications, XSPF Player and Spider Lyrics, made use of this feature. The first was a popular (16k users) music player which allowed users to embed [...]

Fiverr Drama, User Chorus104, Twitter Account wednesdayadams1

December 23rd, 2010

In a recent attempt to bring more traffic to our project NeoInvoice.com, we decided to try some cheap Twitter advertising, using the popular Fiverr service. Fiverr allows you to purchase (or sell) products/services, for a flat fee of $5. One such service includes advertising to 150,000 twitter users via three twitter accounts. Sounding like a [...]

PHP / MySQL Web Application Migration Steps

October 7th, 2010

I was recently asked how easy it is to move a web application based on the PHP/MySQL realm of web application development. When moving a static website, one can “drag and drop” the website from one location to another, and things usually work just fine, so surely moving a web app is this easy? Unfortunately, [...]

Where did Renowned Media go?

August 23rd, 2010

Why, Ann Arbor of course! Renowned Media will now be based out of Ann Arbor, a city with much more technical businesses and requirements than our old home of Midland. We’ll still do work with our Midland friends of course, but mostly via telecommute.

NeoInvoice Nearing Public Beta

July 22nd, 2010

If you haven’t heard by now, we are developing a web application for use by companies in the hourly service industry. This application will be free for small companies and charge a monthly fee for larger companies. This application will be used for invoicing, time tracking, keeping track of employee hours, etc. This application, NeoInvoice, [...]

Time Differences between PHP and MySQL

June 13th, 2010

The difference between reported times of MySQL and PHP compared on both a Windows and a Linux server.

Free Web Utilities

April 18th, 2010

This list contains an amazing assortment of tools and utilities useful for web application development. Utilities range from server side software, web software, all the way to downloadable and hosted tools. Even better, every tool listed on this page is free.

Brand New Layout for Renowned Media!

April 6th, 2010

We are pleased to announce the new layout for RenownedMedia.com. The previous layout was very grungy and dirty looking, which appealed to our outdoor clients, but lacked the clean and professional look that would be appreciated by most of our clients.

Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Study Guide Links

March 2nd, 2010

The listing of items from ZCE for the exam, with relevant links compiled by Renowned Media.

PHP cURL Replacement

February 26th, 2010

If you are a PHP developer who writes a lot of software which needs to be executed in many different shared hosts, it can often be frustrating when certain hosts don’t offer all of the functionality your applications require, specificially the cURL libraries. I’ve seen these missing on several hosts, either for security reasons or [...]