January 2009

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New and improved!

By David on January 29, 2009

I’ve just finished migrating my web site over from Site5 to Dreamhost. I’ve been very happy with Site5, but Dreamhost has a nicer control panel (IMHO) and has, as far as I can tell, much better Ruby on Rails support — they support Passenger, which makes deploying Rails applications a lot easier.
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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-22

By David on January 22, 2009

@Scobleizer One big thing you overlook in your video advocacy – without captions, it’s not accessible to everyone. It’s a big issue for me. #

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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-21

By David on January 21, 2009

Today has sucked, so far. #

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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-20

By David on January 20, 2009

Congratulations, President Obama. #
Damn, that was quick. Whitehouse.gov is already updated with a new site. #
Retweeting @wilw: “Former President Bush Leaves Washington” Ahh, that has such a satisfying ring to it. #

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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-16

By David on January 16, 2009

Ugh. It’s *frigid* out there today. #
@codinghorror Full page zoom is evil, but they’re unfortunately adding it to Chrome 2.0 #
Worst thing about winter driving: stupid people keep trying to kill me. #

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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-15

By David on January 15, 2009

@ScottPiepho Just wait until Friday when it’s even colder! #

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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-14

By David on January 14, 2009

Huh. VisualSVN is pretty nice, I think I can tolerate this. #
Has anyone installed SQL Server 2008 Express on Win7? I tried the other day and ran into a few issues. #

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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-13

By David on January 13, 2009

MigratorDotNet, how I love you. #

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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-11

By David on January 11, 2009

retweet @shanselman: Best Windows Hotkey you’ve forgotten or don’t use? Windows-T to focus on the taskbar and arrows to move around. #
Trying out Windows 7. There are a few things that feel like rough edges still, but on the whole I am very impressed so far. #
The new taskbar in Windows 7 is really growing [...]

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Twitter Digest for 2009-01-10

By David on January 10, 2009

@jwright There’s always 2010 :) #
The snowpocalypse is continuing, although it isn’t snowing as hard as it was last night or earlier this morning. #
@AirborneGeek Sounds like it’s time to pull out that Win7 beta you just downloaded. ;) #
Pulling down the Windows 7 beta from MSDN. Thinking I’ll set it up dual-boot [...]

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