My ISP, Shaw Cable, is upgrading the internet speed of their plans. The plan we’re on is getting a speed boost from 5Mb/s to 7.5Mb/s. Also, they are adding the “PowerBoost” technology free on our accounts which boosts download speed double for the first 10MB of the download. We have great news for you! Shaw is committed to bringing you the very best products and services, and that includes the FASTEST Internet at the best value. As a result we are making significant upgrades to our network in your area which will allow us to increase your Shaw High-Speed Internet Continue Reading
Dennis
I am currently a software developer at A Thinking Ape Entertainment Ltd. I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science with the Software Engineering Option. I primarily speak Python and C# these days, but in the past I've also done Objective-C, Java and PHP.
Outside of work, I'm a volunteer on the youth ministry team at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, and also on the Canadian Ski Patrol team at Mount Seymour. I'm also an avid transit enthusiast/photographer.
FatCow Sales Live Chat
I was just evaluating some popular hosting packages on the Internet and I somehow came across FatCow. So I was just asking a simple question to FatCow hosting sales about the control panel software they use, and here is the result. I’ve removed the live chat agent’s name and replaced it with “Agent”. Thank you for contacting support. Please be prepared to answer your Security Question when we begin chatting. To enhance our security protocols, we’ll need you to provide the answer to your Security Question at the beginning of our conversation. If you have not yet set your Security Question Continue Reading
WordPress Automatic-ness
I just upgraded WordPress and all my plugins automatically through the WordPress Admin Control Panel. Everything (at least so far) has went well, and it took me less than 2 minutes to have everything up to date. This automatic upgrade feature of the core and plugins was designed really well (from the users perspective at least).
Trying to crack DeepFreeze
This is an anecdote from when I was in elementary school and takes place around 1999-2000. Windows computers were just being installed in the classrooms. The mechanism that locked down the computers initially was system policies. You could screw around with a limited number of settings and applications on the system, but a lot of stuff was restricted. However, one day in the school library, a new computer didn’t have such restrictions in place. Our 7th grade teacher (resident IT technician) had just finished setting up DeepFreeze on it, and challenged my friends and I to try to break it. Continue Reading
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas all! And have a great new year. Haven’t been able to blog a lot lately. Been busy :).