Technology

Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll

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

Social Media Times Are Changing

It has been interesting to follow the story of Twitter going from public company to being purchased by Elon Musk...

Are you building a business or learning a stack?

I always love when someone posts something online saying they have an idea for an application and ask, “What stack...

Switching to Fathom Analytics

Tell Me My Value Up Front

The hiring process is broken. I hear of people who are looking for work, either as a full-time employee or...

Computer Science Education in the Past to the Present

A quick but thought-provoking post from Fred Wilson about CS education in our K12 system.

Taking the Side of the Content Blockers

UPDATE: Marco pulled Peace from the App Store today. Such a shame but I get it. I’ve been following the...

CODE Keyboard - The Best Mac Keyboard

I have an addiction to keyboards. ?It?s more like an addiction to the pursuit of my ultimate keyboard. I?ve tried...

Website Filtering Using OpenDNS

I happen to have a 15 year old at home who insists on using websites and chat services that distract...

Switched to DuckDuckGo

I finally made the switch to using DuckDuckGo for search, full-time, and I couldn?t be happier. I tried switching from...

Feed Wrangler is My Go To RSS Reader Platform

July 1 is fast approaching and Google Reader is shutting down. ?Many people in the world use this service to...

Algorithms

I came across a great book on Algorithms?based on a course taught at Berkeley and U.C. San Diego and wanted...

No Love for App.net

There has been a huge buzz around the Kickstarter project, App.net, on the web these days. ?I have no intention...

Impressions of the Google Nexus 7

Tweet Less, Blog More and Keep Your Content

Best Earphones Ever: Bose MIE2i Mobile Headset

I have been using an iPod or some such device for many years now. ?Today I use an iPhone 4...

Joining MarsEdit and Dropbox

I use MarsEdit from Red Sweater Software as my exclusive blogging tool on the Mac and have over the last...

Downgrading MySQL from 5.5 to 5.1 on OS X

I recently had a need to setup a new instance of MySQL on my Mac. ?I decided to use MySQL...

Blog Move to WPEngine

Why Open Source is Better for Your Business than Microsoft

I think everyone in the technology field knows Microsoft, you either love them or you hate them.? It seems there...

How-To Tether with Android and PDAnet

One of the annoying things with a non-jailbroken iPhone is the lack of tethering. Tethering is the ability to use...

Android Fragmentation is Disturbing

A recent blog post over on the TweetDeck blog shows just how fragmented the Android phone market is already, and...

Droid X Replaces My Apple iPhone

This blog post was a lot harder to write than I initially expected. I wanted to not come off biased...

My Perfect Laptop Bag

I have to admit, I am a bit of a laptop bag junkie.? I have had pretty much every type...

2009 Year in Review

Well the past 12 months have gone by really fast, again. It seems I always tell myself this each New...

Enabling Wireless on a Dell Mini 9 Running Ubuntu 9.1 Netbook Remix

I have had a Dell Mini 9 for quite some time now and played around installing various flavors of Linux...

A Serious Windows Home Server Pain Point

I talked about my experiences with not having a solid backup strategy back at the end of August. My solution...

I use Balsamiq Mockups and So Should You

No, I am not a spokesperson for Balsamiq but rather a happy customer. In the unfortunate event you have not...

Thinking About Google Chrome Frame Deployment

Today Google announced the availability of an Internet Explorer (IE) plugin called Google Chrome Frame. The plugin is designed to...

When Neglecting Backups Becomes Costly

I recently had a setback in my work because I had failed to backup my system properly and it cost...

Great Surviving in a Downturn Discussion

I just wanted to point out a great (in my opinion) panel discussion from TechEd about how to survive as...

Consulting on Different Platforms and Varying Requirements

I have been doing freelance consulting work for the past several years, mostly for .NET applications but over the past...

The Rise and Fall of Computer Magazines

I used to subscribe to a lot of different computer-related magazines over the years but I realize now I still...

Outsourcing Not All Its Made Out to Be

This is some of the best news I have seen in a very long time, from Obie Fernandez?s blog:

Dell Mini BIOS Upgrade without Windows XP Installed

DISCLAIMER: Do this at your own risk, it worked for me. I have experience with this type of update so...

Dell Mini Resources

Since receiving my Dell Mini back in September I have found some nice resources pop-up over the past couple months...

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on the Dell Mini

I ordered a Dell Mini 910 as soon as Dell announced they were ready and I was impressed with it...

First Impressions – Flip MinoHD

Observation : Rails Consulting Rates Lower Than .NET Rates

I have been an independent developer for the past few years doing all of my commercial work in the .NET...

The Dell Mini Arrives - First Impressions

I ordered a Dell Mini the day after they were announced and available to order. I had been looking for...

Google Chrome Auto Updates

I have been running the Google Chrome browser since it came out last week and I am pleasantly surprised how...

Using Amazon S3 as my Backup Solution

I have been using Mozy for the past year and had been pretty happy with the way their backup software...

Time for a Development System Reconfiguration

The time has come for me to reconfigure my Windows Vista development system after it has been running very well...

Google Chrome First Impressions

Using Waegis to Fight Comment Spam

My Quest for a New Laptop Bag

I have a couple laptops I use for various tasks, one is a 15” MacBook Pro and the other is...

Twitter Broadens my Network and Makes Me More Social

It is pretty easy when you work independently, and spend a lot of time in a home office as I...

Joined the Infozerk Lounge Network

I don’t believe in using my blog as a generator of revenue but as a way to share information in...

Converting to GraffitiCMS from WordPress

As my faithful readers probably know, I have been running my blog for the past 3 years on the free...

Graffiti is now Live

This is a test post from my favorite blog writing tool, Windows Live Writer on my new installation of GraffitiCMS....

Latest Twhirl release is a great step forward

links for 2008-02-21

[Ruby on Rails Website Development Blog from Atlantic Dominion Solutions](https://rorblog.techcfl.com/2008/02/20/merborial-up-and-running-with-merb-090-dev/) Latest on getting Merb 0.90 up and running (tags: [merb](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/merb))...

links for 2008-02-20

[High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.](https://highscalability.com/) Nice site for information on building high availability web sites. (tags:...

Interesting reaction to Amazon S3 failure today around the web

I blogged about my thoughts on the Amazon S3 failure today and what it meant to me and cloud computing...

Thoughts on Amazon S3 Outage and Cloud Computing

I am pretty sure that by now everyone has heard about today’s outage of Amazon Web Services, their S3 service...

links for 2008-02-15

[21 Merb Links, Tutorials and Other Resources](https://www.rubyinside.com/merb-tutorials-and-resources-716.html) Great list of resources for getting a handle on Merb. (tags: [merb](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/merb) [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby))...

links for 2008-02-14

[20 Things I'm Glad Life Taught Me](https://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/02/20-things-im-glad-life-taught-me.html) A good list to remind one of keeping things in perspective. (tags: [inspiration](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/inspiration))...

37Signals - Holding the future in your hand

A recent post over at the 37Signals blog by David about how new products from Apple make you feel like...

links for 2008-02-04

[Ruby on Rails Website Development Blog from Atlantic Dominion Solutions](https://rorblog.techcfl.com/2008/02/01/merborial-getting-started-with-merb-and-datamapper/) A nice tutorial on getting started with Merb and DataMapper....

Twitter is up and down, is it time for something new?

I have only been using Twitter for a short time now, maybe the last couple months, but I have gotten...

links for 2008-01-29

[Michael.NET: IronRuby Quick Start](https://michaeldotnet.blogspot.com/2008/01/ironruby-quick-start.html) A well-done getting started with IronRuby (tags: [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby) [IronRuby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/IronRuby))

links for 2008-01-26

[SitePoint Blogs ? Upgrading to Rails 2.0. A Recipe](https://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/25/upgrading-to-rails-20-a-recipe/) Good tutorial on updating your Rails 1.2.x apps to 2.0. (tags:...

links for 2008-01-25

[Robby on Rails : Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Third Edition](https://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2008/01/22/installing-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-on-os-x-third-edition) Great tutorial on setting up...

Finally getting Twitter

links for 2008-01-20

[Installing MySQL on Mac OS X at Hivelogic](https://hivelogic.com/articles/installing-mysql-on-mac-os-x/) Great tutorial on getting MySQL up and running on the Mac with...

links for 2008-01-08

[Andrzej on Software: A Guide to Deploying Rails Applications](https://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/01/guide-to-deploying-rails-applications.html) A good summary of how-to deploy Rails applications using common tools....

links for 2008-01-07

[LinuxHaxor.net | 68 Linux Related Free E-books](https://www.linuxhaxor.net/2007/09/05/68-linux-related-free-e-books/) Great list of free ebooks, mostly Linux related but some good stuff for...

links for 2008-01-03

[Ruby.NET vs. IronRuby: What's The Difference? - O'Reilly Windows DevCenter Blog](https://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2008/01/rubynet_vs_ironruby_whats_the.html) Nice comparison of Ruby.NET and IronRuby (tags: [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby)) [Learning...

links for 2007-12-20

[Heroku](https://heroku.com/) A cool idea for hosting your Rails applications. You can even edit your code on-line. (tags: [rails](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rails) [hosting](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/hosting)) [Overview](https://geminstaller.rubyforge.org/index.html)...

links for 2007-12-16

[Carl Mercier?s blog ? Blog Archive ? How to fix that Rubygems mess on Leopard](https://blog.carlmercier.com/2007/12/14/how-to-fix-that-rubygems-mess-on-leopard/) Need help with fixing gems...

links for 2007-12-13

[Running Long Background Tasks In Ruby On Rails Made Dead Simple / Ruby On Rails / Blog](https://trix.pl/blog/ruby-on-rails/running-long-background-tasks-in-ruby-on-rails-made-dead-simple) A nice alternative...

What is ALT.NET?

I am searching for answers….what is ALT.NET anyway? I thought I knew what this movement was all about but the...

links for 2007-12-07

[Live Labs : Volta : Download](https://labs.live.com/volta/download/) Microsoft's latest, Volta for creating web applications. (tags: [Volta](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Volta)) [Confreaks: RubyConf 2007](https://rubyconf2007.confreaks.com/) A bunch...

links for 2007-12-06

[iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2](https://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/12/04/iphone-on-rails-creating-an-iphone-optimised-version-of-your-rails-site-using-iui-and-rails-2) A great...

links for 2007-12-05

[Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern](https://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html) (tags: [IOC](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/IOC) [injection](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/injection))

Coding Horror: How To Achieve Ultimate Blog Success In One Easy Step

I am a regular reader of Jeff Atwood’s blog and always get something useful out of his posts, I find...

Technology Bias Can Be a Strength or a Weakness

I have been reading a number of posts around the web about Derek Sivers of CD Baby dumping Ruby on...

links for 2007-08-29

[Ask Udi](https://udidahan.weblogs.us/ask-udi) A nice podcast about all things SOA (tags: [soa](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/soa) [podcast](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/podcast)) [NServiceBus - Communications Framework for .NET](https://udidahan.weblogs.us/category/nservicebus/) A framework...

links for 2007-08-24

[InfoQ: A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails](https://www.infoq.com/articles/Rails-Performance) A nice look at Rails performance issues and how to address...

Julie Lerman Blog - Add great searching to your ASP.NET website for a nominal cost and support the American Diabetes Association

Here is a great reason to spend a couple dollars today for a great cause and put a nice search...

links for 2007-08-21

[jQuery for JavaScript programmers](https://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/15/jquery/) A nice introduction to jQuery. This is a good place to start for anyone getting started...

links for 2007-08-16

[The Code Project Browser Add-in for VS 2005 - The Code Project - C# Programming](https://www.codeproject.com/csharp/cpbrowser.asp) Nice Visual Studio add-in to...

links for 2007-07-17

[import this. ? Django on Windows](https://thinkhole.org/wp/django-on-windows/) (tags: [Great](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Great) [tutorial](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/tutorial) [on](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/on) [getting](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/getting) [Django,](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Django,) [Python](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Python) [2.51,](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/2.51,) [Apache](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Apache) [and](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/and) [mod\_python](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/mod_python) [running](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/running) [Windows](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Windows))

Dogpile Web Search

I was checking the logs on my server the past couple of weeks and notice and interesting referrer, Dogpile. I...

On Hot New Development Frameworks and Tools

Robert Scoble has an interesting post on Django, which is a framework for Python that makes creating web applications easier,...

Serious Geek

I work with smart people everyday but the number of times I meet or hear about a real geek seem...

Find Web Applications Fast

I came across this new search engine recently called Simple Spark. Simple Spark is not yet another Google wannabe but...

Subversion Bridge Coming...

I caught a post from Harry Pierson about SVNBridge, a bridge for using Subversion clients as a client for Team...

links for 2007-06-12

[Prototype JavaScript framework: Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications](https://www.prototypejs.org/) This is a great library for use with...

Converting to Subversion for Visual Studio 2005 Source Control.

I have used Visual SourceSafe for source control for many years. Most recently I have used either Vault from Sourcegear...

links for 2007-03-22

[100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool - The Code Project - C# Programming](https://www.codeproject.com/csharp/AutoDiagrammer.asp) Nice tool to produce a class diagram...

links for 2007-03-07

[The Trac Project - Trac](https://trac.edgewall.org/) (tags: [bugtracking](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/bugtracking)) [BugTracker.NET Home](https://www.ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html) Great free and opensource bug tracking system for .net. (tags: [bugtracking](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/bugtracking))...

links for 2007-02-15

[ADO.NET team blog : Entity Data Model 101 - Part 2](https://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/02/12/entity-data-model-101-part-2.aspx) (tags: [LINQ](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/LINQ))

links for 2007-02-10

[Enterprise .NET Community: Creating a Custom ASP.NET Profile Provider](https://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=CsharpLINQLearningGuide2007) This is a great resource for learning LINQ. It is a...

Microsoft Windows Vista Machine Build - Preview

I have had the same desktop system for the past 3 years and over the past few months it seems...

links for 2007-02-06

West Wind Application Configuration for .NET Great tool for configuring web applications, virtual directories, etc. (tags: .net configuration)

FeedDemon 2.0.0.25 Released

There is an update out to my favorite newsreader, FeedDemon. I have been using 2.0 for a while now and...

My Microsoft Vista Development Environment

Doing software development on the Windows platform, both Windows Forms and Web Development forces us to try out new platforms...

Business of Software by Eric Sink

I have had some down time lately and got the chance to put in some solid time to read a...

Online Database Schema Library

I came across this Library of Free Database Models from Scott Guthrie?s blog recently.? Below is an example of one...

Red-Gate Software Releases SQL Prompt

Red-Gate Software recently acquired a product called SQL Prompt. SQL Prompt gives the SQL developer intellisense in SQL Query Analyzer...

Staying Organized with MasterList Professional

I manage a small team of developers on what seems to be a never-ending project. The project seems never end...

CNN Reports, Software Engineer is BEST Job in America

OK, well the title says it all. CNN has a story from Money.com showing the results of a survey showing...

37Signals finally Getting Real

37Signals has finally released their “Getting Real” book in PDF format. I have been waiting for this book since I...

Axosoft Giving away $500 Version of Software for $5!

Axosoft is doing a social marketing experiment where they’re selling a $500 copy of their OnTime Small Team bug tracker...

Using ActiveState Komodo IDE

In my continuing effort to find a decent Ruby IDE under Windows or Mac OSX I decided to try the...

I want an Apple MacBook Pro

I watched the Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote on Tuesday from MacWorld after learning several month ago that Apple was moving...

Foxit Software PDF Reader

I recently read a post over on Scott Hanselman’s blog about Foxit Software’s PDF reader. This is a PDF reader...

The Graying Software Industry

Sahil Malik has a great post on the aging of the people in the software industry. The gist of the...

XBOX 360 at Gamestop

I had a chance this weekend, while out Christmas shopping, to stop by my local Gamestop to check out the...

FeedDemon 1.6 RC1

Newsgator has released FeedDemon 1.6 RC1 to their beta download site. I have been using FeedDemon since the early 1.6...

Information Overload

This is a subject that has been haunting me of late. I see so many new technologies that look interesting...

Does Microsoft not believe in their own hype?

I was reading a post over on Joel On Software about using .NET being a viable development environment for downloadable...

Microsoft Longhorn RSS and Attention

Nick Bradbury at Bradsoft has a great post on his weblog regarding the Microsoft announcement that it is baking RSS...

AMD Releases Athlon X2 Processors

In case you haven’t heard, AMD released their new Athlon X2 processors today. You can follow the link so I...

Memorial Day Weekend Tech Fun

Well it’s almost a holiday weekend for us in the U.S. I hope every enjoys the long weekend and remembers...