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Clif Guy involved in building traffic-explosive Find Kelsey Smith website

June 6th, 2007 at 11:53 pm » Comments (1)

Out of the terrible tragedy of the murdered Kelsey Smith in Kansas, Clif Guy over at The Appian Way (host of this fall’s Church IT Roundtable) has an extremely interesting post that gives a behind the scenes peek at how they built the findkelsey.com website (inaccessible to me as I write this, but it’s in […]



LAMP Virtual Appliance DNS Update

June 6th, 2007 at 10:23 am » Comments (3)

I posted the DNS resolution issue I encountered with the LAMP Server appliance from VirtualAppliances.net on their support forums. They’ve responded that they have yet to reproduce the issue but are working on it. I’m looking forward to getting this working, and I’ve also requested a quote from them to see what a custom appliance […]



Mozilla Thunderbird vs. Google Reader for Feed Reading

June 4th, 2007 at 12:34 pm » Comments (4)

I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird for quite some time for reading RSS feeds. The RSS functionality has improved in each new version, and there are a couple of features that have kept me from changing (I tried a bunch of feed readers, web-based and thick client, before settling on Thunderbird, which I also use for […]



Google Officially Buys FeedBurner

June 1st, 2007 at 6:11 pm » Comments (2)

FeedBurner has officially been acquired by Google, which has been going around the rumor mill for at least a couple of weeks. This is very cool, my main desire is to see FeedBurner subscriber counts next to my Google Analytics stats, but that’s yet to be seen. But I don’t think it’s very far-fetched. They […]