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The Chromebook: Prepping For Dev Work.
Chromebook Test (Photo credit: slgckgc)With some problems with my main work machine last week I decided to get a cheap machine as a backup - because I like redundancies and because the economic rebound...
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Backups, Backups, Backups
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. - Cicero, Philippicæ, IX. 5. Back in the 80s and early 90s, we backed up data from our computers because bad things could happen to the machines...
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Stopping Troubling Cheap Popularity Algorithms
One of the more silly issues of popularity algorithms is that they do not degrade over time - and it's really simple to fix.In the context of social media and the internet, the cheap and easy...
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Revisiting The ASUS G74SX-XA1 Republic of Gamers 17.3-Inch Gaming Laptop
In November, 2011, I got my ASUS G74SX-XA1 Republic of Gamers Laptop and was pretty impressed with it. The trouble with first impressions, of course, is that they are only first impressions. Almost 2...
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Yes, Old Hard Drives Are Safe To Take Apart.
One of the interesting things about posting my pictures on Flickr with Creative Commons licensing is where they turn up. This particular image is associated with this response as to whether or not old...
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Small Biz, Rainbows, Unicorns, And Social Media/Websites
People parading around as ‘social media experts’ and ‘web designers’ often stop at people’s places of business, hop off their unicorns and point at the rainbow they just rode in on. “You can do this...
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Site Redesigned, Again.
If you've visited KnowProSE.com any time in the past decade, you'll notice that it's been changed again. It's evolved, as so many sites should as the media changes.The last redesign, done back around...
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Online Shopping User Experience vs Design
Some time ago, I swore I would never buy shoes online - and I did. Some time ago, I swore I would never buy pants online - and I did. Some time ago, I swore I would never buy a car online - and, again,...
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When Not To Use Field Collections [Drupal]
I rarely feel that I have much of substance to add to the Drupal community when it comes to the front end, but having seen field collections abused in 3 different clients over the last few years I am...
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Enriching Social Media
There's a lot that can be said about social media as it is right now and much of it has already been said, written and regurgitated all over the internet because, paraphrasing Douglas Adams, the...
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My High End Point And Shoot: Upgrade or Not? (2014)
With Black Friday coming up, and the Christmas shopping season in full swing, this seemed like something timely to write about.Now that I've started adding posters of my photographs to the KnowProSE...
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The Trouble With Tagging
I've been quietly considering a new method of navigation by tags and, ultimately, while everything I want to do is technically possible... the trouble is with the tags themselves.Just the word 'tag'...
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Navigation In a Multidimensional World of Data
In my last post, I picked on The Trouble With Tagging - and when you consider tagging in the context of content, you run into the trouble of navigation. Content Management Systems permit tags to be...
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Anecdote: eCommerce, Social Media and Customer Service
I'm a fan of R.A. Salvatore for a variety of reasons, but suffice to say that he writes things that I enjoy reading. Some weeks ago, I came across his page on Facebook - and as a human being, he's...
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Tags, Time and Content Creators
This entry builds on the shoulders of 'The Trouble With Tagging' and 'Navigation in a Multidimensional World of Data'. If you feel like you're missing something, check out those entries. In previous...
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Digital Tribes And Search.
On the internet, if it's free, you're pretty much the service (not the product). The distinction between product and service is pretty important here, since on the Internet your digital footprint is a...
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Re-Exploring the Idea of a C++ CMS.
Half of my professional software career has been working with the LAMP stack and Content Management Systems - mainly Drupal. The half before it - the formative half - was with desktop programming, or...
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Photo Used in NASA Sensing Our Planet (2014)
I'm proud to have made a small contribution to NASA's Sensing Our Planet (2014) by allowing use of the photograph on the left. I was surprised that the photo caught someone's eye - it was taken while I...
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Creating a Software Development Environment
I have some ideas that I want to play with, and as I hinted at here, I'm thinking of using C++ if only because some people have already done some of the heavy lifting with content management system...
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I opted for Ubuntu instead of Gentoo because, for some reason, Gentoo was trying to toss me an AMD64 distro for an i7 through the Universal USB Installer (UUI).With an entire DVD to download, I just...
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