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 Wordpress hosted service. Wordpress is a great service with really good uptime and they are always improving their features. The only limitations I have been faced with lately is being...
Apple Time Capsule not a Happy VPN Participant
I have been a happy owner of an Apple Time Capsule for the past month or so. It was very easy to setup and configuring it to work with Time Machine was a breeze and backups seamless. I have been using a Linksys 54GL router as my main router and...
Graffiti is now Live
This is a test post from my favorite blog writing tool, Windows Live Writer on my new installation of GraffitiCMS. Any one interested in subscribing to this blog please do so through my Feedburner feed at feeds.feedburner.com/AccidentalTechnologist.
Great Conversation with Chris Tavares about Microsoft Unity
I had a really great conversation recently with Chris Tavares, the lead developer of the Unity Application Block for Microsoft. The chat was for my weekly article on InfoQ. Please check it out.
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 has served me very well but the cloth was starting to wear out heavily on the seat and it was time to get something new.
Ruby on Rails and IIS7 Playing Nicely Together
Ruby on Rails has been around for a few years now and has become a hugely popular web development framework, but not on Windows and Internet Information Server (IIS). Rails has run on Linux and Max OSX almost exclusively, until recently.
Laptop Screaming Fan Syndrome
My current laptop I use most of the day either in my home office or on the road is a Dell Latitude D820. I have had it about a year and half with the exception of the last month or so I have been very happy with 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 7 months now and have been having a great time. I have learned a lot about the web publishing industry and about aspects of technology I may not have otherwise...
Great find - The Thirsty Developer Podcast
I have to admit, I have a problem. I am addicted to podcasts and I listen to them all, either on a commute to a client or while working. I stumbled across a new one (to me) recently and I wanted to share it with my readers.
ASP.NET MVC Source Code Now Available - ScottGu's Blog
As an fan of all things MVC, today’s news of the release of the ASP.NET MVC Source Code was really good news. I think it shows Microsoft’s continued steps toward being open source.