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The Week in Tweets: Week Ending 11/30/2008
This is where my mind was in the last seven days according to my Twitter microblog: Researching #AWS pricing. Is it possible to build Ruby on Rails for AWS using a Windows box for dev work? I might try a Linux VM for the IDE Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoying an afternoon with the family in Memphis. [read more...]
Building a web application using Amazon Web Services, Day 1
Let’s get online and start a business! Last week we discussed the possibility of starting one’s own web business using the inexpensive and scalable Amazon Web Services as a backend. This type of distributed computing is beyond the scope of work I’ve done in the past so this should be interesting and it [read more...]
Optimizing your site for mobile devices is no longer optional
UPDATED: Here’s a newer article with tips on optimizing a WordPress site for mobile readers. It’s hard to let go of long-held notions of what the Internet is and how it works. I usually plan new tools and sites with myself in mind as the target customer, specifically at my workstation. This is great for [read more...]
Memorable tweets for the first week of December 2008
By Daniel J. Pritchett on December 8, 2008
Here’s a glimpse of the more interesting conversations popular microblogging service Twitter has brought to me in the last seven days. I also went and turned the “send DMs to my cell phone as text messages” feature back on. Twitter is a great complement to texting – it lets me contact people whose phone number [read more...]
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