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Revisiting content management: Just build what you need!
Back in 2001 when I got laid-off from my job and started learning what this new .Net thing was all about, my first attempt at building something was a CMS that could do "everything." When I look back at it, well, it pretty much did do everything. You could drop in a UserControl that did whatever you need. It was like Sharepoint before Sharepoint.
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Improved power management for iPhone?
Ever since the 1.0.2 update for the iPhone, described only as "bug fixes," I'm getting crazy better battery life from it. I was comfortably charging it every two to three days before, but now even after two days and a fair amount of iPod use, it's lasting much longer. I wonder if they tweaked the power management?
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Off-shoring and visa worker nonsense
I saw a TV spot today from this organization claiming a big conspiracy against American workers by evil corporate America to off-shore jobs or importation of foreigners for those jobs. What a load of crap. (Watch the sad little spot on their site... How are they gonna make that house payment? Maybe by selling that $40,000 car!)
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Facebook app for iPhone... wow!
Leave it to the cats at Facebook to deliver a very nice iPhone experience. Given the site's media-centric approach of photos and other nonsense, it's a great fit to the iPhone, which is all about photos and other nonsense!
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Icky PHP from Facebook
While I certainly realize that ugly code can be written in any language on any platform, the found PHP code from Facebook is exceptionally gross. I can't even imagine looking at code and having to face that.
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Web is hanging out where the puck has been
I was listening to This Week In Tech this morning, as they were talking about various services and Web sites they use. It occurred to me that, while many of these sites are very fascinating, most are me-too at best, or worthless at worst.