It is pretty easy when you work independently, and spend a lot of time in a home office as I do, to feel isolated from the outside world. I have been using Twitter for the past 6 months or so and have found it to be very rewarding and an integral part of my day-to-day networking. I blogged a few months...
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I don't believe in using my blog as a generator of revenue but as a way to share information in the community. As of May 1 I have joined The Lounge by InfoZerk . I have been a long-time follower of James Avery, reading his blog and seeing him on Twitter . We were introduced when I started using GraffitiCMS...
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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 able to customize...
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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 . Technorati Tags: Graffiti , FeedBurner...
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I have been using Twhirl as my Twitter client of choice on Windows for a few weeks now and am really happy with, especially when Twitter is actually up and running. Twhirl is based on the Adobe AIR platform and puts a nice rich client on the Twitter experience. The nice thing is, it also runs in Apple...
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Ruby on Rails Website Development Blog from Atlantic Dominion Solutions Latest on getting Merb 0.90 up and running (tags: merb )...
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High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. Nice site for information on building high availability web sites. (tags: scalability architecture )...
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I blogged about my thoughts on the Amazon S3 failure today and what it meant to me and cloud computing in general. There was a fair amount of reaction and feedback out on the web and I wanted to share the comments I enjoyed most. Partly Cloudy: Amazon’s S3 Service Goes Down Why Hardware Sucks and Backups...
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I am pretty sure that by now everyone has heard about today's outage of Amazon Web Services , their S3 service in particular. I noticed there was a problem this morning when the avatars on Twitter were not showing up. I know Twitter uses Amazon S3 to host the avatars but thought the issue was with Twitter...
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21 Merb Links, Tutorials and Other Resources Great list of resources for getting a handle on Merb. (tags: merb Ruby )...
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