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2008 in Review
Welcome to my fourth annual year in review post. This year, unlike previous years, my blog is less of a good record of the past 365 days. Its a combination of being a lot busier due to the growth at Crowd Favorite, and working on more client projects that I cant talk about as they happen the sam …
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SVN Zapper Updated
Thanks to Adam Tow, Ive got a newly updated version of SVN Zapper available. This version should be nicely compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.x. ShareThis
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Restoring to a MacBook Air
I finally ran into a situation where I wished the MacBook Air had a DVD drive or a FireWire port. I needed to restore from a SuperDuper backup on a disk image on an external drive to a vanilla MacBook Air and was a bit surprised that I didnt know how best to do it. I called up Adam Tow and ran throu …
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ShareThis Snappiness
You may have noticed ShareThis loading a lot faster these days. The team has made some great changes under the hood that have enabled better performance and a much snappier response. The widget now pops up immediately, just like ShareThis Classic. Ive been beta testing the new performance features h …
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Dell 30? Monitor vs. Apple 30? Monitor
My Apple 30 monitor is dying so I decided to go ahead and replace it (additional business expense in 2008 FTW). I was surprised at what I found when looking up the Apple and Dell 30 offerings. Apple offers (for $1799 retail): An elegant cosmetic design. Dell offers (for $1399 retail): Faster resp …
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WeatherBug for BlackBerry Outrage
Ok, maybe less outrage and more mild annoyance. After playing with the iPhone a bit I realized that my BlackBerry would be a bit more useful if I had some apps on it for various one-off features. For example, I thought it would be handy to have a weather app instead of loading up a web page. The iPh …
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Phone Answering Service Recommendations?
Does anyone have success stories/recommendations for phone answering services? I am looking for something that will do the following: 24/7 live operator answering. Gather basic information about the issue/problem. Call the scheduled on call person to pass the info on to. Call the next person on the …
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Android Dev Phone Works Without SIM Card
I got an Android Dev Phone so that we can test on it and build for it. My hope/thought was that I could use the SIM card from my iPhone as needed for testing, and use it as a WiFi device most of the time. After some initial hiccups, that does seem to be the case. I had to add an APN as outlined here …
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Server Upgrade Imminent
This site will be moving to beefier hardware shortly. Apologies in advance for any downtime. UPDATE: Looks like everything transitioned quite smoothly. The big speed improvement you see here is in large part due to the good folks at Austin Web Development. Big thanks to Chris and the team there for …
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Devver: cloud-based tools for Ruby hackers
If youre a Ruby dev, you should want this job. A great opportunity to work with a great team. # | Visit Site » ShareThis
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BlackBerry Bold First Impressions
I was planning to skip the BlackBerry Bold and wait for the Javelin (the updated Curve), but decided to go ahead and get the Bold for a variety of reasons: I wanted 3G I wanted a faster processor for JavaScript, etc. in the browser I played with it a bit and found the keyboard wasnt as bad as it lo …
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Carrington on Google Code
Google Code is now hosting the SVN repository for Carrington. Carrington is an elegant WordPress theme framework from my company, Crowd Favorite. Get the details on the Carrington web site. ShareThis
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Carrington Blog 1.3
(cross-posted to the Carrington web site) Version 1.3 of Carrington Blog is now available for download. Upgrading is strongly recommended due to a security patch in this release. This version has a couple of changes - both bug fixes and new features: Added an image.php file for displaying media. Th …
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Twitter Tools Digest Problems
Ive heard from a number of people that have had trouble with the digest features in the current version of Twitter Tools. Im guessing that there are a couple of bugs in there that are causing the problems. At this time, the digest features of Twitter Tools should be considered experimental and shoul …
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Refresh Denver - Creative Collaboration and Grid-Based Design
Looking forward to seeing Crowd Favorites own Gordon Brander presenting on grid-based design next week. # | Visit Site » ShareThis
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Twitter Tools 1.5.1
Im pushing out another new version of Twitter Tools to address some problems people are having. This version has only three changes from yesterdays release: Added autocomplete="off" to the username and password fields on the Settings page. Made the error message when the login fails more explicit ( …
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Twitter Tools 1.5
Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that creates a two-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account, has been updated to version 1.5. This version has an important bug fix for a problem in earlier betas of 1.5 that didnt properly throttle requests to Twitter. If you are using a 1.5 beta …
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America09.com
For the last couple of months Ive had an Obama badge in my sidebar to show my support for his candidacy for president. The time for campaigning is done - its now time to focus on working together as a country. Im now replacing my Obama badge with this: perhaps youd like to do the same. I set up a s …
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Widget Summit 2008
Ill be in the Bay Area this week for Niall Kennedys Widget Summit. Im quite looking forward to it. Im giving a presentation on WordPress widgets: outlining how they work and how they differ from standard JavaScript widgets. I think the Q&A at the end of the presentation will be very interesting …
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ShareThis Adds 15,000 Publishers in Q3 2008
Pretty awesome to see ShareThis doing so well. Im excited for some of the new things that are in the works. # | Visit Site » ShareThis -->
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