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Monday, December 22, 2008 10:17 PM

Qik Videos

Back in February, I wrote about a new website called Qik.com. You can read that post for more info, but basically it lets you stream live video to the internet from certain types of phone. They finally came out with a Windows Mobile client and I loaded...
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Monday, December 15, 2008 9:55 PM

Studio711 Mobile

If you use a mobile phone to browse the web, my site is a little bit easier to read now. I shut off some of the page layout and background to make it fit better onto a small screen. It could still look a lot nicer, but at least it’s readable now.
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Monday, November 17, 2008 7:10 PM

Site Tweaks

The good news is that I had unexpected time to work on the website today. The bad news is that it's because I'm sick. I came home at noon and after drugging myself and sleeping for a while, I decided to write some code. That's what everyone does when...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:30 PM

Videos, Digg, and Moblog, Oh My!

The moblog app is fully functional now. I basically had to rewrite it from scratch to use the new API but that's ok. I'm just happy to have it back again. There were a lot of times I missed being able to upload a photo. Secondly, I found out that this...
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Sunday, November 09, 2008 3:00 PM

Site Conversion: Mostly There

While the site still looks very much the same as it did before, I've been hard at work throughout the week and this weekend. Here's a summary of the tasks that have been checked off the list since my last update: The Facebook status is back. I learned...
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Sunday, November 02, 2008 1:48 PM

An Update On The Update

It's all starting to come together! I'm really excited about this new design. I still expect to make some changes to it (ie. new header photos), but the core blog features are almost done. If you find pages that still contain the old blog look...
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 1:20 AM

Stable Condition

Good news! As you can see, all ~2800 blog posts have made the journey to the new blog software. Here's a peek at the top of my priority list for the next steps: 1. Bring back the categories and assign them to all ~2800 posts 2. Migrate photos 3. Get...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:46 PM

Site Updates

I'm ramping up for some major site changes over the weekend. I described the rationale for the decisions a while ago, but the short story is that I'm planning to upgrade to ASPNET2.0/3.0/3.5, SQL2005, and Community Server 2008.5. The problem is...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:30 AM

Six Years

Today is the 6th anniversary of the date I started the blog. Yikes! It has started to become a tradition for me to give some stats so here we go: In the past six years, I have made 2710 posts. That's 1.24 posts per day or 1.73 posts per work day since...
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Monday, June 23, 2008 1:25 AM

Painted Into a Corner

I feel like I've painted myself into the proverbial corner with my current web hosting. When I joined GoDaddy in 2004, I spent a long time getting Community Server running. It wasn't a supported application at the time and I had to make a bunch...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 9:20 PM

Photo Reorganization

While I was watching the races this afternoon, I finally got around to reorganizing the photo gallery. The gallery groupings have been growing unwieldy and hopefully I've got it under control now. This unfortunately means that many of the photo gallery...
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Friday, April 18, 2008 11:50 AM

Survey!

It's time for the first ever Studio711 (Lack Of) Satisfaction Survey. I pretty much post whatever interests me, but I'm interested in how different things about the site are received by you. It's only 10 questions and shouldn't take more...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:24 AM

Reclaim Space in Community Server

Over Christmas, I ran into a bad problem with my Community Server installation on GoDaddy. My database was full so I couldn't make any more posts. I emailed GoDaddy and they kindly increased my database size for no cost. Make a backup NOW . I take...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:59 AM

Comment Moderation

Spammers have become more and more of a problem lately. To combat them, I have turned on comment moderation for now. All this means is that when you submit a comment, it won't show up on the site quite as quickly as before. I'll get an email and...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:30 AM

Web Stats

I just checked the stats for Studio711 last year. 7000 people saw my site and requested 26,000 pages. Visitors came from 81 countries with the US, Canada, Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands leading the charge. 70% of you use IE and 26% use Firefox...
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