Ade in Business

The enterprising journey of a web developer

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The beauty of numbers

June 13th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Some things are pretty obvious after you think of them.
When a new user signs up on FormSpring or Ponyfish, a randomly generated password is emailed to them. It’s a fairly simple way to make sure that a valid email address is associated with an account. Both services also have a password reset function [...]

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Tags: Technology

New web host

June 1st, 2006 · 3 Comments

If you can see this, my transfer to a new web host was complete. If you can’t see this, then you’re probably Ed Illig playing mind games with me. I spent the greater part of the last few couple days migrating to DreamHost from another shared hosting provider that I’ll refrain from mentioning (FormSpring [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Insight revisited

May 19th, 2006 · 6 Comments

I’m taking back the praise I gave Insight about a month ago. Since I wrote that entry, there have been two instances where my Internet connection has been down for several hours, and each time I couldn’t get through Insight support because all their lines were busy.
Well, I finally got through the second time [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

4 great support moves and 1 bad one

April 2nd, 2006 · 3 Comments

I recently had a decent experience with my cable provider’s technical support (Insight Communications), and that’s something that I never thought would happen. I’ve had a lot of complaints about dealing with Insight. It started with the cable modem installation when they wouldn’t activate me over the phone, but required a certified technician [...]

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Tags: Business