While watching my tweets go through on Twitter, I noticed a call to arms by Caleb Jenkins. He was looking for a discussion around a new contest he is starting for February. If winning your own Visual Studio Team Suite MSDN Subscription, while also getting yourself away from the computer and becoming fit. Then you need to check out Caleb Jenkins' latest blog post. Full details to be posted on Caleb’s site. Get Fit in February Contest – Win Visual Studio Team Suite MSDN Subscription! « Caleb Jenkins ......
I just received this email from my contact at JetBrains: A quick update on the JetBrains User Group Giveaway program... 1) We’re happy to extend this giveaway for another year – at least until the end of 2009. Your work in the community is something we all admire, and we’d like to thank you for your efforts. 2) We are expanding the program to support a lot more User Groups – .NET, Java, Groovy, Ruby, Google, and Agile. If you want us to support any other groups, let me know! 3) We’re also expanding ......
Ok so I have been using Google Chrome since I was able to download it around 2:00 PM CST today. I find that I like it's light weight nature, however I have found the usually layout issues on web site. Which, of course as a web developer I am cursing the fact that there is a new browser in town that will have a 800 pound gorilla behind it. This means one more browser to test for every site I release. What fun! :) I have so far only found 1 site with major issues, and that is Twitter. Twitter is one ......
I happened to find a cool new application over the weekend, Fring. Fring is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes. I find that even on my crappy GPRS connection Fring works remarkably well. You can check ......
I found a new Twitter toy today. It is called TweetMyPage. It is not an application that needs an installer. You setup your settings and TweetMyPage gives you a javascript you add to your bookmarks. When you are reading a page you want to Twitter, you click on your TweetMyPage bookmark and it will ask you for your Twitter user id and password. Once you give it your credentials it will tweet a message similar to the following: Reading (http://linktoarticle) title of article. Currently TweetMyPage ......