Preidential candidates on twitter

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Thought it was interesting to see the number of followers and followings the presidential candidates had. I’m loosely following the candidates’ use of the internet in their campaigns. In general, Obama does seem to have a much stronger online presence than any other candidate, twitter stats aside. I couldn’t find what appeared to be the [...]

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Zed on Mongrel

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Hear about Mongrel from the creator himself on this InfoQ online video. Good presentation, even without any insulting, cursing, or self-inflation. Well, not that much, at least.

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Dan Cederholm at it again

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Looks like Dan Cederholm is re-designing the SimpleBits website again. As Cameron Moll wrote in the classic A List Apart article about website re-aligning, good designers don’t just re-design, they re-align their businesses in conjunction with a re-design. Re-design for the sake of changing your identity can be a cool gimmicky thing as well, as [...]

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Facebook politics

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Interesting article in the Guardian. Facebook has 59 million users – and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won’t catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information – not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site.

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Mozilla unleashes giant killer robot

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Mozilla just released Firefox version 3 beta 2. So far, so good. It seems to perform a tad faster than Firefox 2, and opens about as fast as Safari on OS X. For a good review of the latest browser, see John Resig’s blog, which includes instructions on how to run two versions of Firefox [...]

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Adding CSS style to Shopify checkout pages

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If you’re at all familiar with Shopify, you know that the one of it’s most inescapable flaws is that lack of ability to customize the check out pages. The lively discussion on the Shopify forum illustrates a lot of the opinions, and Shopify creator Tobias Lutke explains in a forum posting why the decision was [...]

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Browser differences

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One of the most important parts of web development is platform testing. I develop using the latest Firefox on Mac OS X Leopard, but I obviously need to make sure everything is okee-dokee on all browsers. What most lay people don’t realize is that a website that looks beautiful on one platform can look like [...]

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WordPress "error establishing a database connection" on OS X Leopard

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If you are getting this error on your local WordPress installation using Mac OS X Leopard, there is a simple fix. You might be seeing this error even though PHP is working fine, and MySQL is working fine. In order to get WordPress to work create a php.ini file. sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini Change permissions [...]

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Where in the world?

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Via Josh Lee‘s twitter feed I was introduced to dopplr.com, a social networking site that allows to track your friends as the hop around the country. I travel quite often for work (and pleasure, when I can) so this seemed very appropriate for me. I entered my current travel schedule into my new account, and [...]

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