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Testing the worpress app for blackberry… This might be enough for me to blog again!
Salt and Vinegar Broiled Fingerling Potatoes | Umami Girl
Salt and Vinegar Broiled Fingerling Potatoes | Umami Girl.
I recently cooked this recipe. If you like Salt and Vinegar chips, this is a must. This recipe is AWESOME!
Programs I Typically Run While Working
Throughout a normal workday, I have tons of different programs running at any given time. Here is a snapshot of the programs I typically run, and why:
- Dev
- Visual Studio 2005/2008
My primary development environment. I’m normally working in Asp.net 2.0+ w/C#. Of all the different development platforms I have worked in, this is by far my favorite.
- SQL Server Management Studio 2005/2008
C# wouldn’t be much fun without a back-end, now would it?
- Notepad++
Windows Notepad is great. Notepad++ is greater. There are several other Notepad replacements developers use, but I find this one does everything I need. It comes with tons of preinstalled macros that allow you to check differences between two files, insert rulers, auto-format html, highlight syntax, convert between character formats, and on and on. You can even quickly and easily record a macro of your own. Macros in Notepad++ are crazy easy….new post?
- Excel
When I have a ton of SQL queries to write that require some sort of auto-numbering, I find it can be easiest to use a spreadsheet to generate the scripts.
- TortoiseSVN and AnkSVN
If you aren’t using version control, you’re doing it wrong. If you’re using Visual Source Safe, you’re better off than using nothing. I have been using Subversion for a bit now, and it has proven to be exactly what I need. Throw in the fact that Dreamhost offers Subversion hosting, and I’m SOLD!
- Visual Studio 2005/2008
Birmingham Folk Festival
My good friend, Ashlee Jean, is organizing the 2009 Birmingham Folk Festival. In fact, she is the president. I am looking forward to the festival. It was a blast last year.
Windows 7
I have had a pretty hard time keeping my laptop functioning. After a hard drive failure, the recovery Vista discs Gateway sent me would no longer work. Unfortunately, they aren’t actually install discs – they just read a repair partition on the original hard drive.
Gateway was not at all interested in providing me with legitimate replacement discs. All I got out of them after hours of pleading for a means to run a legitimate Vista install on my laptop (which I STILL have a license for) was another set of faux-replacement discs and a $20 handling charge.
Testing Windows Live Writer
I just watched a great talk by Scott Hanselman about Social Media for Developers. Among other things, he recommended using Windows Live Writer as a notebook to gather your thoughts throughout the day.
So far, I like it. This is much easier than managing drafts with WordPress. WordPress does have a great admin system, but you just can’t beat a desktop client.
Remove Follower Count?
Should Twitter remove it’s follower counts?
Clearly, this is a game — and really, gaining followers on Twitter, for most people, is a game. Which raises the question: Should Twitter just remove the follower counts?
I think the question is a bit silly. Some people think that is important. Should you hide that information from anyone that wants to see it?
Couldn’t you just decide to not view it? If it concerns you that much, you could just use a single line of JS via Greasemonkey to remove it from Twitter pages entirely. If you already have Greasemonkey installed, I have already written the script for you.
On The ROOF
NOTE: I am not happy with this gallery setup. I’m looking for a new plugin.
Ribs. RIBS!
Eating good ribs makes me feel this good. Sometimes, even this good, if they are cooked just right. I wont be so bold as to say my ribs are on the highway to the dangerzone, but I do think they could make even an angry John Lithgow punch dance in a warehouse.
It is a little hard to describe the recipe, as it changes every time. Here is how I made them, this time:
