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An Introduction To The Loop Structure – Everyone’s A Bit Loopy

October 30, 2008 By Bill 7 Comments

Loops are things in programming languages and operating systems that process stuff. Loops do what they sound like. If you were to run around in circles you are also looping around in a circle. So, if you can imagine running around in circles in the same spot, you have the ability to process stuff while you loop around in circles. Processing stuff while you run around in Continue Reading

Learning Ruby On Rails

October 16, 2008 By Bill 3 Comments

What is Ruby on Rails?  Ruby is a programming language and Rails is a framework.  What the heck's a framework?  Well you'll find it through the resources listed below. At the Ruby Programming Language website they describe Ruby on Rails as: A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to Continue Reading

55 Twitter Tots – Part Deux

October 14, 2008 By Bill 3 Comments

It's been a while since I listed 55 Twitter Tots.  So here's another list of 55 Twitter Tots for your tasting. Tweet Alerts - TweetBeep.com - Subscribe to a keyword and you'll be emailed a list of tweets with that keyword. Hmmm... Another way to do keyword research possibly? Cool TwitterCounter - Find out how many followers someone has as Continue Reading

WordPress 2.7 Cha-Cha-Changes

October 9, 2008 By Bill Leave a Comment

Just a quick post to show the WordPress 2.7 Dashboard from my article WordPress 2.7 - Hemorrhage Dashboard and the updated Dashboard (see below).  We'll see how many time things change between now and their release date of November 10, 2008. October 5, 2008: October 8, 2008: More changes to come.  Woo Hoo!!  Instead of Who Moved My Cheese? we should be thinking Continue Reading

Process Explorer

October 8, 2008 By Bill 8 Comments

Recently I wanted to start Symantec's pcAnywhere 12.1 on Windows XP and when I started it none of the icons for remote clients were showing. So I closed pcAnywhere and restarted the program. It didn't restart. Well, instead of spending a bunch of time trying to figure it out or contacting Symantec I decided to fire up Windows Task Manager and just go to the Applications or Continue Reading

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