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Wow, it's been quite a day. I knew when developing the Bailout Watch iPhone application that it had the potential to strike a chord, but today was the day that chord was officially struck. I appeared on the Fox & Friends television show this morning to talk about the ...

Like many of you, I can't help but be amazed at the economic state of the U.S., and perhaps more to the point, the measures being attempted to cure it. Back when the first bailout money was given out in the fall, I tried to find out how much, who was getting it, etc., and...

So I've ventured into the crazy world of iPhone application development. It's an incredibly cool platform for development, even if the learning curve is a bit steep. Even with a background in C/C++, Objective-C and the Cocoa API were a lot to take in all at once. At any r...

One of the example applications in my new book, Head First PHP & MySQL, involves mining YouTube for video content and placing it in your own web pages. In the book, the application is developed to help a guy named Owen fin...