Category Archives: General

My Geekbox

So, the new Advanced Operators topic is up, and it’s asking “What’s in your toolbox?”
It’s become immediately obvious that “tool” is defined differently by different people, so I’m going to take an approach of “whatever I can remember that I use.”
Hardware:
I use a 24″ iMac with a second, 20″-monitor at work. It’s a pretty unbeatable [...]

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Is social the new search?

Personally, I believe that search is going to be broken up in the future, as I see it already starting to happen. For a while, Google was god, and you went there for everything, but not anymore. If I’m looking for a torrent, I go to a torrent search engine. If I’m looking for something [...]

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Running Coherence on Parallels

I finally got around to setting up Parallels and installling XP so I can more easily test sites in IE6 and IE7. However, the one feature I was most excited about was coherence. Now, setting up Parallels and getting a virtual machine set up couldn’t have been more easy, but out of the box, coherence [...]

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Wufoo - Hosted Form Service

I’ll be the first to admit that this free script solution isn’t the most full-featured form builder I’ve ever seen, but it is very simple and handy for it’s intended purpose. Sometimes however, you need a little more muscle. Wufoo is just such a muscle. It’s a great, hosted service that lets you manage and [...]

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Using Textile

I find Textile somewhat frustrating. I’m not really sure it’s better than HTML, because I have to learn so many random codes now. While it may be simpler than HTML, I’m not really sure it’s any easier to learn, especially since HTML actually uses tags that make sense semantically. For instance <strong> makes sense to [...]

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