Ever since seeing the Modern Family episode where that one gay guy does a flash mob dance for his lover, I was really hooked on Flash Mobs. I would love to be involved in one of these, because as a kid my favorite thing to do was memorize choreographed dances. That’s why this T-Mobile Flash Dance commercial is so cool, and is probably the best one I’ve seen. They definitely used professional dancers while most flash mobs are full of amateurs who are out of sync, and just not good. Which brings me to another point, wouldn’t it be great to go to a wedding of two professional dancers?

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I heard about the commercial kings a few years back, but never really followed them. Apparently, they are now doing cat hotel commercials. They literally make this lady look like a fool, but I think it’s funny enough to be effective. I think her cat hotel business will definitely get a lot of customers. But can you imagine the smell in that place? Cat Poop is the stinkiest ever, I mean when my dog takes a dump I barely smell anything. What’s up with that?

I’ve honestly never seen this before in my life, it looks like this video took them a few weeks to do. in the beginning it looked kind of stupid but you’ve got to wait about 30 seconds for the painting to start. I wonder how much paint was used to create this strange and wonderful masterpiece. Well if you’ve never seen the stop motion painting before, check this out.

I find some of the most interesting things just browsing online. This was definitely a random find, but I found this documentary about a Korean American Street Artist David Choe. The guy is definitely a tortured soul, but it’s what gives him the inspiration for his art. In a weird way, this movie inspires me to reach my dreams. Go check it out, it’s a full length feature film.

Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe

Maybe I just get really easily impressed, but seeing a real functioning, street legal Batmobile is like a geek dream come true. Apparently this is a turbine powered model, which takes it’s engine from a decommissioned military helicopter. The reasoning behind this was to get a real authentic sound, the same as in the 1989 movie. I haven’t watched the original Batman film in a long time so my memory is a little fuzzy on the details. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the most expensive car in the world, because why wouldn’t it be. It really is the only one of it’s kind. And if you finished watching the video, I could just imagine the peoples faces when they saw the Batmobile rolling down the street. Priceless.

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In order to promote the Intel Core i5 Processor, the company has released a promotional film demonstrating its capabilities. I haven’t kept track of processor speeds since the Dual Core Processors came out, and so the Intel Core i5 Processor really doesn’t mean much to me. But what does impress me is the creativity put into the film.

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A little animated short that tugged on my heart strings. Enjoy

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

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last month a buddy of mine introduced me to the Double Rainbow Video, which by itself was good for a light chuckle. So today I was surfing You Tube and I found that someone had made the Double Rainbow Song which auto tuned the guys voice, and made a very Enrique Iglesia type dance mix. I loved the Double Rainbow Song, but I couldn’t get past the poor quality of the audio. Fortunately a rock band did a cover of the Double Rainbow Song, and now the circle of life is complete. Watch each video in order, and you will see the magic unfold. Enjoy!

If you are a php web developer, I’m sure you’re familiar with the usage of phpmyadmin. For those who is unfamiliar, phpmyadmin is a web tool that give a graphical user interface for the mysql database. Let’s just say it makes life easier on the web developers.

So as a any good developer should do, they should always back up the database in case anything horrible happens to the server. This is easy to accomplish using the export function in phpmyadmin. Now if your database has less than 16mb of data, importing that backed up information is simple through phpmyadmin. But what do you do when you have gigs of data to import? You definitely cannot use phpmyadmin to accomplish this as it will warn you of the size limit. In this article I’ll give a quick solution to this problem by using a mysql bulk upload, so lets start from the beginning.

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Apache Solr is an extremely powerful, enterprise level search engine, and can be used to store billions of records. For anyone with experience in MySql, you will understand how query time starts to degrade after reaching around 1,000,000 rows for any given table. After doing tons of research to try to find an alternative method for a quick and reliable search database, I stumbled upon the Apache Solr Project. The general consensus about Apache Solr is that it’s lightning fast, and after using it for a recent project I will definitely agree to this.

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