Ade in Business

The enterprising journey of a web developer

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I found another way to break my email

March 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

It wasn’t enough that I broke my email for a few hours last week with the Gmail migration. I woke up this morning to the curiosity of 0 new messages in my Inbox — no spam, no cron job notifications. Nothing.

It took me way too long to realize that the recursivefunction.com domain had expired [...]

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How not to migrate to Gmail

February 22nd, 2007 · 8 Comments

Let me just start by saying, if you sent me email between 10pm 2/12 and 10am 2/22 and haven’t heard back from me, then please resend your message — I haven’t seen it.
On the eve of Google’s launch of Google Apps Premier Edition, I decided to migrate recursivefunction.com mail to Google Apps for Your Domain. [...]

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Web development with Firebug

January 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Firebug is an add-on for Firefox that bundles a number of great tools to help web developers. Version 1.0 was released this week, and to honor the occasion I thought I’d discuss a few of the features that I’ve grown to love.
Console Logging
This is the first feature that got me really excited, albeit one [...]

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Batch download Flickr images with PHP

January 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Every now and then I need a batch of image files to use in testing, and typically go to Flickr or one of the many other photo sharing sites to right-click, “Save Image As…” and download a number of photos. I’m inviting RSI issues if I do that 100s of times, and it’s as [...]

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I want an iPhone

January 10th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Let me start by saying that I may be a geek but I’m far from being a gadget head. And when it comes to cell phones, the newest and coolest on the market has never excited me. I’ve always humored the cell phone salesperson with a nod and a weak smile, then [...]

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