Entries in the ' reviews ' category

Written October 12, 2007 in reviews

For the past month, I’ve been using Mint.com to track my bank balances. Unlike most other blogs that cover web development in general and web 2.0 specifically, I try to wait until after a service has launched and I’ve had the chance to use it over time before I …

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Written September 23, 2007 in reviews

Occasionally I review things here that *aren’t* related to web development.

I enjoy a glass of wine at night sometimes. Recently, with the amount of stress/strain at work, I’ve enjoyed it a bit more. Since it’s hard to code with a hangover, it’s nice to be able to pour just …

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Written September 8, 2007 in apple, punditry, reviews, symfony, wordpress

For a long time, I’ve used Safari to post with wordpress. But with my upgrade to 2.2.2 I’m not impressed.

There’s CSS bugs in the admin panel. There’s problems with the editors — code only, becase the visual one doesn’t display. There’s problems with the javascript in the options screens. I had to crack open Firefox just to change the link format.

I know that Wordpress doesn’t claim to support Safari, but fer chrissakes — it’s the third of the big3, and makes up about 5% of the traffic to my site. I’m glad that the themes I’m using at least support Safari.

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Written July 13, 2007 in reviews

“Download All Attachments” — I’ve got no idea how long it’s been there, but it’s awesome. It’ll download a whole set of attachments as a zip file.

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Written July 7, 2007 in punditry, reviews

Ok, I’m an Apple fanboy. I love my new Macbook, I loved my old powerbook. I love my iMac at work. I’d really like it if I could try out an xServe for 45 or 90 days like the Sun promotions run.

But I didn’t buy an iPhone, and since it …

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Written July 1, 2007 in meta, reviews

For my consulting business, I’ve switched from SideJobTrack (which hasn’t been updated/bugfixed in six months…) to Freshbooks … Freshbooks is tons better from an invoicing and payment point of view, and there some features I love, but I have a few minor beefs with their time clock system.

Features I love:

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Written June 27, 2007 in punditry, reviews

One of the games that I used to play (heavily) was Jumpgate. It was similar to Origin’s 1990’s-era “Privateer” title, in which you fly a single-man spaceship around and attempt to achieve certain goals while interacting with people, collecting resources, and shooting stuff.

Like everything, I got bored with it pretty …

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