After several days of frustrating Google queries and support forums, I found out what was causing the iSight on my 2008 Macbook Pro to stay hidden from the computer.
When using a Multi-Environment setup for your development process it is essential to have adequate protection from outside prying eyes, but also allow people to access your public/testing sites. This .htaccess code allows you to do that.
MVC has defiantly changed the way applications are written over the past few years. It is more organized and developer-friendly, but it comes with a bit of a learning curve. I will cover what models are and how I use them to speed up my application development.