posted by Alpay filed under Mac,
blogging
OK, so here I am. Just downloaded the ommwriter I have read about on the internets. It is a new take on the distraction free writing arena where full-screen bare-bone editors are what sells (or are free most of the time). I have been checking these stuff since I am basically a person of distractions. My mind just can't stay
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posted by Alpay filed under Life,
blogging
What else can you do when you have setup your blog again, configured analytics and keep checking how many people arriving to your blog every day? Well, you got to create some time and write a new blog post. Becoming a full-time Ph.D student after recognizing in horror that I am wasting my time to an undeniable and scary deadline,
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
Image by pcgn7 via Flickr
You may have noticed that i have written a silly post regarding a non-existing google twitter client and fortunately noone else seems to have take i seriously.
While i was thinking about this blog, i have found out that i won't be able to keep up with the things happening in the tech space
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
@problogger's #31dbbb have radically changed the way i think about my blog. It is now the eighth day, and I am unfortunately a little left behind. But that is mostly about me, and is not related to the pace of the challenge itself.
Anyways. The first assignment was to ceate an elevator pitch for the blog. Thinking on this, i have
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
If you are like me and have problems posting (or rather authenticating) to your wordpress powered blog on your custom domain, here is what to do. Open your blogs administration page, go to settings, then click on writing. Click the checkbox saying "Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.". Voila, you will be able to post...
Posted
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
I have been having all sorts of problems using MySQL on my Mac installed using MAMP with Rails. I believe I have sorted it out giving this command:
sudo gem install mysql --
--with-mysql-config=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql_config
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
There is a great article on Smashing Magazine by Chris Coyier on some really basic but important things to remember when writing HTML. It is nothing revolutionary, but a good wrap-up anyways.
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
I have been searching the best way to take notes since... Well since I have had my first notebook and started carrying it with me to anywhere. I tried text files, note taking applications, wikis, and even regular pen-and-pencil route.
It has never been successful for me. I lost files, had trouble syncing with online-to-do lists, exporting, importing etc.
I have been
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
Matt of Wordpress announced May Stats for Wordpress. There are some amazing numbers. I would definitely like to be a part of something like that, reaching out to millions of people, billions of times.
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posted by Alpay filed under blogging
I have been wandering and trying different blogging tools on the Mac platform for a while. Unfortunately all the good software out there has a non-zero price tag. Well except ScribeFire, which is a great Firefox plug-in and a real time saver. I have not extensively tested it and I will be comparing it to the blogging facilities of Flock,
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