• Archive for January, 2009

    New and improved!

    by  • January 29, 2009 • Personal, Technology

    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. If you’re seeing [...]

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    Twitter Digest for 2009-01-20

    by  • January 20, 2009 • Twitters

    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. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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    Twitter Digest for 2009-01-16

    by  • January 16, 2009 • Twitters

    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. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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    Twitter Digest for 2009-01-14

    by  • January 14, 2009 • Twitters

    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. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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    Twitter Digest for 2009-01-11

    by  • January 11, 2009 • Twitters

    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 [...]

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    Twitter Digest for 2009-01-10

    by  • January 10, 2009 • Twitters

    @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 [...]

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