A few weeks back I blogged about ditching AT&T. I got everything set up to make the move: a BlackBerry on Sprint and a T-mobile account to set up the iPhone on. I haven’t canceled my AT&T service yet though, and I’m now torn on whether I will or not. I got the BlackBerry Bold…
August, 2009
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I’ve published another Q&A on the Carrington Framework on the Carrington web site. This one covers some additional questions I saw popping up in the forums and comments. It’s great to see folks being able to get into Carrington a little more of late, I guess the additional documentation has been helpful. Also, remember to…
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Chrome for Mac is more usable than ever. About time you tried it out again. – great workaround tip on how to make bookmarklets work. Nude once again | Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Creative Powerhouse. – congrats to Jeffery.. xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet – oh yes, oh yes indeed! Does the GPL…
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Just when I thought I was getting back to blogging more regularly, the combination of a busy work week, interviewing and recruiting for our open QA/Developer position, and three sets of family visitors got me right off track again.
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More tag for your twitter digest in WordPress at SANIsoft – excellent idea for a Twitter Tools plugin. Didn’t mean to scare you… Google’s new search engine – yay ego-search. At least for a moment, I’m the #1 “alex” again. 🙂 TapDefense v2.2’s unlock “offers” are a bad idea Firefox vs. Google Chrome Revisited –…
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The Carrington CMS theme framework for WordPress has been updated to version 2.5. I’ve also released updated versions of all of our Carrington themes with the latest core, new documentation, and other misc. enhancements and bug fixes: Carrington Blog 2.2 Carrington Text 1.3 Carrington Mobile 1.1 Carrington JAM 1.3 WordPress developers, be sure to check…
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Since I change out my laptop and mobile device every year or two, I’ve pretty much stopped buying accessories for them. I’ve got a basic laptop bag for daily use and backpack for travel that work with whatever laptop I’m using, and BlackBerries come with cases, etc. so I don’t buy custom cases, etc. like…
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Crowd Favorite is hiring a full time QA Engineer/Jr. Developer. This is a new position at Crowd Favorite, and we’re looking for a sharp self-starter with great communication and organization skills to work with us. Responsibilities will focus on creating QA plans and managing the QA process for our projects, and will also include work…
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Time to upgrade!
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I’m pleased to announce that version 1.1 of Analytics360°, a great WordPress plugin from MailChimp that provides awesome Google and MailChimp analytics data and visualizations in your WordPress admin, is now available. Download it here This release addresses a handful of issues that were reported in version 1.0, and has been well received in testing…
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My first game at Camden Yards became my first rainout at Camden Yards. The rain was definitely welcome as it had been a scorcher (97 degrees plus humidity) in Baltimore today. Along with the rain came some impressive wind and lightning. Camden Yards is an excellent ballpark – definitely recommended. It’s clearly the father of…
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I’ve published more documentation on Carrington, the CMS theme framework for WordPress we created and use at Crowd Favorite. These docs cover the three contexts used in Carrington, and examples of how you may want to use them: The General Context The Post Context The Comment Context I’m working on a follow-up to the Carrington…
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Les Otten for Governor – Otten Blog – *wow* Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule A Day in the Life of 3G – PC World – 3G speed and reliability tests for Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. JavaScript 2.0: A Sneak Preview Google Chrome is the New Firefox, and Firefox the new IE – I wouldn’t call Firefox…
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For a year or so I’ve had an iPhone and BlackBerry on AT&T. After this weekend, I’m hoping to be completely free from AT&T. I’m going to jailbreak and move my iPhone to T-Mobile, piggybacking on a friend’s plan as I don’t use any minutes on it. I’m going to move my BlackBerry account to…
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I’ve published a Carrington theme framework overview article (a follow up to the Q&A) on the Carrington web site. Hopefully folks will find it useful in describing some of the approaches taken in the framework, and some of the resulting benefits.
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