This post is going to cover how to make a nice looking android screenshot graphic asset for the Google Playstore.  We’ll use GIMP for this, because it’s free, and it’s awesome. First off, open GIMP and select File -> New.  The best size for the screenshot is 480×800, so go ahead and enter that.  Click… [Continue Reading]

One task that I seem to do quite regularly is migrating WordPress installations, especially between a live server and a localhost. 1) Download and Configure an FTP Client First we need to copy all the files from the live site down to the localhost.  There is no better way to do this than FileZilla. There is a FileZilla… [Continue Reading]

ACodeIgniter is a Model/View/Controller (MVC) Application Development Framework (ADF) for PHP.  What does this mean?  So it looks like CodeIgniter is basically the PHP version of Ruby on Rails. Ruby & PHP = Scripting Languages Rails & CodeIgniter = Frameworks Frameworks are a way to quickly do repetitive coding tasks, like build a blog 15 minutes.  They’re… [Continue Reading]

Historically, I’ve partaken in smashing my hard drives with hammers prior to getting rid of computers.  However, this feels pretty wasteful considering people are unlikely to put a new hard drive in an old machine.  This post is about how to completely wipe a hard drive without physically destroying it. When a computer is formatted, the data… [Continue Reading]

Kaggle is a platform devoted to competitions for data scientists to get the most accurate prediction of real world problems.  Many of the competitions are using existing data to predict unknown outcomes.  They have report (need source) that Random Forest is used in a lot of the competitions to predict unseen outcomes.  We’ll use Random Forest… [Continue Reading]