March 2008 - Posts
This is my second take at virtually building my new Windows Home Server. You can see version 1 here . My main reason for the reconfiguration was that I wanted to use a SeaSonic power supply. I could have just added it to the previous kit, adding only $40 to the total price, and chucked the one that came with the barebones Asus case/motherboard. I really like the small form factor of the Asus case, but it only supports two SATA drives. While I'm only buying two now, having room for another two would...
[Update: I reconfigured my "dream machine" in this follow up post ] I ordered the 120-Day Evaluation version of Windows Home Server last week. I got the DVD in the mail earlier this week and it's been sitting on my desk staring at me, daring me since then. Like most geeks, I've got a house full of computers (desktops, laptops, routers, wireless routers, XBox and more). One of the things on my To-Do list for quite some time is to implement some type of file sharing and backup strategy. Anything would...
This spring is quickly becoming packed with lots of great .NET community activity. The first is our local Cincinnati (we got left out of the official) Heroes Happen Here Community Launch. The rest are regional code camps. I can't describe code camps any better than Mike Eaton did recently : If you've never been to a Code Camp ... I really suggest you check it out. These are not your typical vendor-sponsored conferences with lots of marketing fluff. Code Camps and the Days of .NET are jam-packed with...
Say hello to the MIU HDPC (Hybrid Dual Portable Computer) - via Engadget . This is either the smallest ugly computer I have ever seen or the largest ugly mobile phone I have ever seen. With 4GB of RAM, a 60GB HDD, the ability to run Windows XP, a 5 MP digital camera and a 9 hour battery life it is pretty darned cool for under $500 - looks be damned. This thing just might be the Anti-iPhone! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
Since Good Friday was a Telligent holiday Leon (Fallen Rogue) and I decided to meet for breakfast and some stimulating conversation. Well, stimulating for me at least; I'm not sure how much stimulation Leon got from my never-ending statements like "Huh?", "uh-huh" and "okay, I get it". For those keeping score, Frisch's Breakfast Bar FTW! Leon started off the conversation by stating that he had been really active in the Ruby community and had not actively participated in the ASP.NET community until...
Our excellent CMS product, Graffiti, has been nominated for the asp.netPRO Reader's Choice Awards in the CMS category. Additionally, Community Server is in the running again in the forum category and CodeSmith is nominated as well. If you haven't tried Graffiti then make sure to check it out. And don't forget to place your votes! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
[Update - as of 3/25, the site will be called and use the url TwitterRatio.com, but it will still be using TFF Ratio as the statistic] Over the last two weeks I've written about the beginnings of TFFRatio.com and some updates that have been made to the site like a Twitter autoresponder . One of my goals was to create a web service so that others could use TFF Ratio in interesting ways. I've been working on a Graffiti widget, which you can see in action here and will be released soon, but today I...
A few days ago I blogged about adding some cool updates to the TFF Ratio site that included adding a ReTweeter that would reply with your TFF Ratio stats if you used @tffratio in a tweet. I got some comments from friends and colleagues (@ jfollas and @ averyj ) that the process should be a bit easier and that I should be able to use the Twitter replies API call to make it easier. Of course they were right and after spending about 2 minutes looking at the Twitter API I was able to make some updates...
The top row is the three faces of Tucker. Second row is Tucker in action. Last row is all three kids: Regan, Tucker and Jared. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
Last weekend I made some updates to the TFF Ratio site to give it a little more "oomph". One of the things I noticed was that people would go to the TFF Ratio site, get their ratio and then post it on Twitter with something like "Hey my TFF Ratio is up to 1.09 now". I thought it would be cool if I could bypass the step of them needing to go to the TFF Ratio site and instead have their TFF Ratio automatically posted to Twitter in some fashion. The solution I came up with was pretty simple: built a...
I've been jammed up with a lot of work recently, but I still make some time to play with one of my new favorite toys, Graffiti . After my ecommerce site built on Graffiti I tend to look for new, interesting and different things that I can do with Graffiti both for the personal fun and challenge and to help showcase the power that Graffiti wields. I came across a post a while back that I found interesting that I bookmarked for future reference. In it the author provided an idea to setup mini sites...