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		<title>2010: Freedom from Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/12/31/2010-freedom-from-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 355 days (maybe more), we've all heard people talking about "social media" and "social marketing," and blah blah blah.  My New Year's resolution is to totally avoid the term, and the lunatic consulting practices that surround this. To any of my clients (real, perspective, imagined): you do not need a social media strategy.

Allow me to repeat that. YOU DO NOT NEED A SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY.  Ask yourself this, though: What's the last thing you bought from a link in Twitter?]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone vs. Andriod</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/12/27/iphone-vs-andriod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, ok, ok.  It&#8217;s been done and said before, but since I&#8217;m a die hard iPhone user/(nascent) developer with a still-active Verizon line, I thought I&#8217;d drop my own 2¢ into the well.
Anyway, we picked up a couple HTC Droid Eris phones yesterday, and I spent a considerable amount of time tinkering with them (maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downgrading PHP to 5.2.10 with MacPorts</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/11/01/downgrading-php-to-5-2-10-with-macports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright.  So I discovered that it&#8217;s really a pain in the butt when you discover that you&#8217;re trying to use Drupal 6 with CiviCRM, and discover that PHP 5.3 has deprecated some features, breaking the software.  Obnoxious, but really, that&#8217;s kinda the whole game when you use open-source software.  Goes with the territory, so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Ubuntu as a Time Capsule</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/08/20/using-ubuntu-as-a-time-capsule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/08/20/using-ubuntu-as-a-time-capsule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long ago, back in the days before Gentoo had a binary distribution, when you had to compile everything, I made the switch to Linux.  From Windows.  This was in 2002, and since then I have spent a significant amount of time using both Debian/Ubuntu Linux and Windows, and I would have gone totally Linux but for 1) the lack of a decent peer for Adobe Creative Suite, and 2) because GIMP sucks.  But a couple years ago, I bought a MacBook Pro 15" and I found the best of both worlds - Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite and a BASH shell.

But, this is not about a Mac vs. PC argument.  Use what you like.  What this is about is using a Ubuntu server (Intrepid) to act as an AppleShare file server and Time Machine backup volume.  It was not nearly as tricky as I expected it to be, and in a couple ways it was down-right easy.
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		<title>Anxious For Snow Leopard</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/08/14/anxious-for-snow-leopard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/08/14/anxious-for-snow-leopard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, I am looking forward to next month&#8217;s release of Apple&#8217;s new OS version, 10.6 (Snow Leopard).  What do you expect from a company which has taken almost 2 years to, not develop new features, but to optimize its code &#8211; making the OS run faster with a smaller disk footprint.  Oh, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very Disappointed With Shark Week</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/08/06/very-disappointed-with-shark-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who loves both sharks and &#8220;geek-TV&#8221; (my girlfriend&#8217;s term for History, NatGeo, and Discovery), I wait all year for Discovery&#8217;s Shark Week.  But, this year&#8217;s Shark Week truly sucks.
The week began with a very poorly done, 2-hour docu-drama, Blood in the Water, about the 1916 New Jersey shark attacks that became the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Cool Site</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/03/01/one-cool-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't know about you, but if you're out surfing the web, looking to kill a bit of time, there is a wonderful class of website to help.  Let's call them headline aggregators, or news aggregators, or whatever.  Guy Kawasaki, who you may recognize, not from motorcycles, but as one of the most prominent and successful Macintosh evangelists every, has launched <a title="Alltop Home Page" href="http://www.alltop.com" target="_blank">AllTop</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss Army Laptop &#8211; Setup I (MAMP)</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/01/30/swiss-army-laptop-setup-i-mamp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/01/30/swiss-army-laptop-setup-i-mamp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made the move from Windows to MacOS about a year ago, after spending a long time as a corporate IT puke.  In the corporate world, I got paid to know how Windows worked, but a bit of tinkering with Linux (early Gentoo, Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu) let me in on just how useful a robust command line is.  I would have made the switch to Linux and been happy, but for the fact that I do a significant amount of graphic/design work and I needed a couple Adobe products.  Enter MacOS, the right blend of Linux and Adobe.

But because I've been working as the lead (only for the first year) technologist for a startup, I need a reasonable facsimille of my production server environment running on my laptop and desktop.  The Mac is perfect for this, and with about 30 minutes setup time, I managed to get the MAMP (MacOS - Apache - MySQL - PHP) environment set up and running.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Up With Yahoo Domain Registration?</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/01/14/whats-up-with-yahoo-domain-registration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lofdev.com/2009/01/14/whats-up-with-yahoo-domain-registration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had this domain for something like 5 years, and I have been generally happy with Yahoo!, first for their webhosting and later for their domain registration services.  But this year, they suddenly (well, not so suddenly) decided to change the price for registering a domain name from $9.95/yr to $34.95/yr.  Huh?  Are you serious? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technical Skills</title>
		<link>http://www.lofdev.com/2008/12/18/technical-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lofdev.com/2008/12/18/technical-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any self-respecting hacker who has been writing code for the past twenty-five years, there are a lot of things that I know how to do. Many of these things I enjoy, some are things I have forgotten once or twice, and some are things that I just don’t want to do (again). Please consider [...]]]></description>
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