Last Friday, 9:00 PM: It’s one of those quiet evenings at home: The kid’s asleep, the spouse is watching TV. I’m sitting at my desk once again debugging some nasty code (but really I’m just checking Facebook). My machine hums away, OS X chugs along just fine. Technically everything is as it should be.
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Archive for ‘Tech’
Dec 17
We recently replaced the standard WordPress 2.7 comment system with IntenseDebate. The integration was smooth, other than a minor CSS and template change specific to our deployment…
And what do I think?
The good folks over at IntenseDebate have created something of a wonder: It’s fantastic as far as comment systems go, at least in terms of [...]
Dec 14
This “user experience” write up is not presented as a technical review of Mozy. I felt there were plenty of other reviews that get into that level of detail. To me, it seemed like it would be more interesting to share my experience over the past year regarding the type and quantity of data I [...]
Dec 13
Quickly: Just discovered tortoisegit. I loved TortoiseSVN… this should prove an interesting project to watch…
Dec 10
Screencast: git Introduction in 2.5 Minutes Part I
By jgshort on December 10th, 2008Posted In: Blog, Tech
The following QuickTime Vimeo screencast is about two minutes and thirty seconds long and is aimed at developers new to git and unfamiliar with git. I talk about initializing a new repository, adding files to a new repository, committing, status and the git revision log.
Dec 10
I’ve used many-a revision control tools during my software development career, beginning with Visual Source Safe, migrating to SourceGear’s Vault followed by a long and fantastic relationship with Subversion and now, in my own personal projects, git. By far my favorite has been git.
Ladies and gentleman, I’m telling you now: Distributed revision control is [...]
Dec 10
Seen on Slicehost’s tweet today: Ludwig Petterson has created a sweet little Dashboard widget for OS X that monitors your Slicehost instances. It uses your Slicehost API, so make sure you enable API access under the SliceManage console first. Pretty great!!
Dec 09
I was pretty content downloading the nightly WordPress build every other day or so. However, stoopad.com is now on 2.7 RC2 and I’m probably going to leave it there until the final 2.7 release. Very solid, I love it. The upgrade tool, by the way, is fantastic, I couldn’t be happier with the one-button-upgrade process. [...]
Dec 09
I wanted a comprehensive log analyzer application for my httpd server and AWStats is a fantastic package for just such a need! Getting it deployed on my Slicehost image was an entirely simple task, but I thought I’d post the instructions for anyone else who may need to do the same.
Dec 08
As I read Open Thread: Social Web & Its Challenges, I realized how ridiculously fragmented and ugly my own online identity has become. Twitter accounts, MySpace, Facebook, OpenID, banking, shopping, noise and clutter and ugh! Dameon Welch-Abernathy wrote (in response to Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate):
Companies are building services atop services without a [...]
