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Seedy middle-of-the-night move

I did one of those seedy middle-of-the-night moves with this site recently. Like Dave Burke, I switched to a Virtual Private Server and I agree - there is no going back to shared hosting now! Hopefully you did not notice any interruption in service…

An update to my WatiN experience

A few days ago I wrote of my initial impressions with WatiN . While I really like it, I mentioned that I had some trouble getting the tests to run under Cruise Control .NET. Over the weekend the author, director and admin of the WatiN project…

Building an Ad Management System - Step 1

Building an Ad Management System - Step 1

No, I’m not starting another project and I’m not starting another blog series. First I had a problem/question/idea , then I did a little research , and now I’m just doing a little prototyping to see what’s feasible. I would like to use ads from…

Being a better blogger Thank your commenters

If I have learned one thing from Dave Burke , the guy who “runs just about the most polite blog in the entire blogosphere” , is that you should reply to each and every person who takes the time to leave a comment on your blog. Daniel from Daily…

How many ad networks/services are there?

Following my last post where I questioned the value of building an ad engine for my own purposes, I began doing a little research on the different ad networks/services to figure out what it would take to support the more well known services. I knew…

Managing Ads

Managing Ads

I’m sure that you know that I have some Google Adsense ads on this site. I don’t use them too much here because I don’t want them to be too obtrusive, but I figure if the couple of dollars that they provide a month will pay for this site’s hosting…

WhatIWantMost Adding RSS and Inviting Friends

Up to this point in the development of the WhatIWantMost project I have chosen to implement the simplest solution possible to complete each task (or at least that I could think of) and that will not end today. That approach is of course a…

Thoughts on Best Buy's secret website and Business Ethics

Business Ethics - yeah like the final Academic Decathlon showdown scene in Billy Madison - it appears that some people may not know what they are. Or maybe they just choose to disregard them. On the heels of an announcement of Best Buy being accused…

I am a writer (depending on your definition)

I am no Mike Gunderloy , but … In addition to my nearly daily writing for this blog(1), I have also done some writing and technical reviewing for a couple of publishers over the last year. Though I’m not ready to commit to anything yet until I get…

I really like WatiN

Over the last couple of months we’ve talked about the need to get some UI testing in place for some of the projects that I work on daily. I considered Selenium and spent a little time looking at Watir. As I started getting into Watir I realized that…