Chris Hess

Category: Tech

  • Todoist List Filters – a hack for giving your filter groups a title

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    A few weeks ago I learned (from this awesome post) that in Todoist (my referral link) you can create filters with multiple criteria by separating the criteria with commas. I created a filter on my mobile app (I wanted to group small, medium, and large tasks for today). label:Large & today, today & label:Medium, today…

  • Ifttt on Android

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    I spent a few hours the other night playing with IFTTT on my Android phone. The reason was they recently released an Android App. What is IFTTT? Since I don’t know that I’ve ever talked about IFTTT on here, it stands for If this then that. For instance, you could use the Date/Time “trigger” to…

  • Custom Post Type – Add CSS to WordPress Backend

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    I recently had some trouble adding CSS to the back end of WordPress for ONLY the custom post type I was creating. Here is the code I ended up using:   /* * Adding the admin.css file to the back end of WordPress */ add_action(‘admin_init’,’load_my_script’); function load_my_script() { global $pagenow, $typenow; if (empty($typenow) && !empty($_GET[‘post’]))…

  • Google Docs – Share Folders!

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    I read a few weeks back that the Google Docs Api had the ability to allow you to share your folders but that the interface didn’t have it yet.  I don’t know how people find things like that – going through the api code I guess… but anyway I logged in today and sure enough…

  • Virtual Drives

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    I had this “virtual drive” script I wrote setup a while back for my windows machine to make certain things easier.  For instance I setup my apache htdocs directory so that it was the “W” drive so I could just open my computer and W and I would be there with my websites – it…

  • Mainframe 2.0?

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    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about clouds and all the things that can be done in them.  I was just having a conversation the other day about how pretty soon our computers will be “dumb terminals” and even our OS will be “in the cloud”.  Google is been rumored to be close to releasing…

  • Google Analytics on the iPod touch/iPhone

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    Last night I wanted to see my google analytics on my iPod Touch, however there is currently no flash plugin available for it so I don’t get the graphs. I think I just came up with a simple solution. You can have google email you a PDF version of the analytics every day, week, or…

  • Cloud Interoperability

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    In a recent Information week blog post, John Foley discussed briefly the problem of having data spread between different cloud providers.  As I read the post I started to think about where I think a good solution to the cloud will finally settle.  My opinion is that one of the solutions particularly for enterprises will…

  • Moab – What is it and why should I care?

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    I work for Cluster Resources as their Business Infrastructure Developer. Basically in my job I find ways to make our business processes more efficient, removing touch points and creating value through IT. Really love my job and specifically, the company. The more I have come to understand our product, the more I want to tell…

  • Email to RSS

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    I am always looking for new ways to do things. A few weeks back I wanted to subscribe to some newsletters at work. I noticed however that my inbox (which I try to keep empty) was being cluttered with newsletters I had not yet had a chance to read. Newsletters just don’t work in my…