• Articles and Books

    https://krypted.com/ Turns 13 Today!

    Before December 30th of 2004, https://krypted.com/ was a site with some flat files of notes I’d taken. During the Holiday break that year, I finally converted it into a blog. And now, with over 3,500 posts and netting around 10,000 unique visitors a day, it’s very different. It started out as just some musings and technical notes. Now, it’s… Well, some musings and technical notes. Actually, back then I’d occasionally write about college football (Go Dawgs!), a lot more about Windows (um, Windows NT sometimes – ick!), and an increasing amount about macOS Server. These days I post less, but I write as much as I ever did. Just more…

  • personal

    Krypted Turns 11 Today

    Yup. Somehow I have made it this long. 3,100 posts later, or .77 posts per day, I’m still with ya’. Not sure what the next 11 days will bring us, much less the next 11 years, but I’m honored that so many people visit the site, and I hope I give you cause to continue to do so in the future. At least the graphics are a little better these days… Thanks for stickin’ with me!

  • Articles and Books,  personal,  sites

    A More Minimal https://krypted.com/

    I’ve wanted to redo https://krypted.com/ for a long time. And I finally had a good excuse: my wife and daughter went to sleep early tonight. So, phase one, a very minimal design. This kinda’ mimics my latest approach to a lot of things, but the site is far simpler, a little quicker and hopefully now that the bad design has less to say, I’ll end up getting back to having more to say. Anyway, I hope you like it and Happy 2013!

  • Articles and Books,  personal,  sites

    2,000 Posts And Going Strong

    In December of 2004, in response to a request from my publisher at the time, I started this site in its current form. I kept the domain from my personal tinkeration site, which was a glorified file service, some static html pages for me to remember things (I can be a bit forgetful at times) and some .htaccess files to keep parts of the site private. I’d been using the domain for awhile, but started tinkering around with a few blogging engines and eventually settled on the one I’m using now. The total number of posts now sits a little over 2020, with a few being drafts on upcoming products…

  • sites

    New User Submission Page

    I have now opened up the site to user submissions and built a page to submit content. I’ve also tweaked the layout a little more to make things load faster and cleaned up the nav bar so that the Submit button can take you to the submission page. I hope to see some pretty awesome submissions after slaving away on the forms! A couple of notes on submissions: Submissions do not require authenticating to the site For any accepted submissions I will create an account for you (unless you already have one) and make sure that submissions are properly attributed Feel free to submit a snippet along with a read…

  • Articles and Books,  sites

    https://krypted.com/ Turns 7!

    Today, https://krypted.com/ turns 7. 9 books and almost 2,000 posts later, I seem to have slowed down a bit if you look at the last couple of months of postings. But I’ve been busy, just trying to get a few other projects finished, so I can get back to my normal writing-too-much self. These projects I’ve been wrapping up include: Writing Using Mac OS X Lion Server for O’Reilly (the final artwork for this one was turned in today) Converting https://krypted.com/ into a publishing company and putting out Time Machine in Mac OS X Lion, which should also be on the iBookstore soon Speaking at 4 or 5 conferences (MacWorld is…

  • sites

    tlho' SoH

    https://krypted.com/ turns 6 today. Since December 2004 there have been over 1,500 posts, more unique and returning visitors than I ever thought possible and the site has evolved from its state in the 90’s up to 2004, which was my gateway into my home into a site that seems to help plenty of people. For that, I am thankful. Looking forward to the new year, ya’ll! -Charles [kml_flashembed movie=”/transparent1/Flip.swf” wmode=transparent]

  • sites,  Social Networking

    Now A Social Network

    Well, I have no clue why but I decided to setup the feeds and friends aspect of a social network on krypted.com. It turned out pretty good, although there’s still some CSS work to do. You can sign up by hovering over the Social icon in the toolbar and clicking on, ironically, Sign Up. You can then click on Edit Profile to upload a picture and create your own profile page. Then, Directory to see the other users of the network. The Friends button will show you your Friends and the Friend Requests button will show you pending requests from other friends. But most importantly, the Activity button will show…