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Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll

I have been using WordPress for many years but I never loved it. Actually, I never liked it.

It has certainly been a long time...

I realized that I have neglected my blog for a very long time. I wanted to write up something so...

FeedBurner No More - Please Update RSS Subscription

I?m making some long needed updates and getting rid of FeedBurner is one of them. If you subscribe to this...

Subscribe to Posts Via Email

It seems more and more web sites are offering users to subscribe to updates delivered by email. ?If you would...

No More R?sum?s Please

I’m sure like so many people I used to keep a r?sum? up-to-date but no longer. ?I don’t think with...

Homebrew Upgrade Woes

I ran into an interesting problem recently after updating my installation of Homebrew on my Mac Pro. ? Starting with...

When Will Amazon Stop Running and Face Reality?

I have been an Amazon Associate for a long time and a Connecticut resident even longer. ?Here is the sad...

2011 Conference Season

I mentioned in my review post of 2010 that I planned to spend more time networking, in particular attending conferences....

2010 - The Year Ahead

2009 was a very interesting year, a year of some realization and a year which helped lay the foundation for...

43

Today is my 43rd birthday. I have since my late 30?s, really disliked thinking about being another year older, I...

Bing for Site Search

Blog Moved to New Server

Finding Work as a Freelance Software Developer

The recent downturn in the economy has turned many more developers who were full-time employees into consultants to help pay...

Interesting and Painful First Contest Experience with 99Designs

I am not a designer and I never pretend to be. The projects I have worked on over the years...

Fear of the Start

I attended Nathaniel Talbott’s talk titled Fear of Programming at acts_as_conference 2009 in Orlando a few weeks ago. Nathaniel’s talk...

Reminder: Write For Those Who You Want to Influence

A recent post by Dave Winer over on Scripting News about how he made $2 Million Dollars with his blog...

I Need to Stop Volunteering

I have a really bad habit, I have friends and organizations who need help and I volunteer to help but...

Figuring Out What’s Important

I have had this post in my head and partially written on this blog for quite sometime, I updated it...

Wanted: Small or Short-Term Rails Gigs

So, the title says it all. Right now I am finishing up my latest long-term project and I will have...

2008 - Another Year Gone By

Turning Down the Social Noise

It was about a month ago and I was sitting here in my home office reading some Twitter tweets and...

Attending Conferences

Over 2000 Open Source Web Designs

Career Crossroads and Deciding What is Next

CartoonMe and Twitter

Have you ever wondered how some of your Twitter friends have those cool cartoon versions of themselves? I was put...

Finally Ordered a New Office Chair

I have been using the same Staples special office task chair for the last 8 years, yes 8 years. It...

Reblogging - Enemy of the Blogger and Writer

I have been a .NET and Ruby editor for InfoQ since the end of the Summer of 2007, so about...

Wanted: Someone to assist with WordPress Design

I have been running this blog for quite sometime now and would like to hire someone to make some design...

Dilbert goes Agile

I found this yesterday and thought others might find it amusing.

Grab Some Free TechSmith Tools

I use SnagIt from Techsmith on a regular basis for creating screen shots for some of the posts I publish...

On the Road Again

I have not posted to my blog in a while. I am sitting in a hospital room in Baltimore, MD...

2006 Resolutions

Well, it’s 2006 and I am back to work after a much needed vacation. The holidays were great and I...

Happy New Year 2006

Happy New Year everyone! This is my first post of 2006 and will hopefully be the start of many more...

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone is getting some much needed time off and some quality time with family.

Great Service Revisited

I posted recently about my experiences with my blog posting service, Typepad, and how I felt they had done exceptionally...

What is Great Service?

It’s human nature to point out, in a public forum, an example of a bad product or bad service. I...