I recently found UserFly.com, a service which will record videos of the visitors to your site, allowing you to play them back and watch where users go (and how they move their mouse around on the screen).
I was flabbergasted at how easy this was to use – I tried the free version and had recordings [...]

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I get asked this on a fairly regular basis, often by people new to the domain and hosting scene.  I’ve got a lot of domains at GoDaddy that I’ve purchased over the years, but for most new domain purchases I’ve found omnis.com, and I’ve been very happy with them so far (just over a year). [...]

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Are you interested?  I’m looking at bringing the same style product that we’ve been delivering to the Groovy community to the JRuby and Jython communities, respectively.  If there’s enough interest, we’ll move forward.  Care to register interest?  Sign up at http://jrubymag.com and/or http://jythonmag.com and let me know what you’d like to see covered.

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A few weeks ago, I posted a survey asking for input on the next magazine topic for Web Dev Publishing to pursue.  The results were interesting, but unfortunately the results were not definitive, and I’m left with the same quandry as before – which topic to choose.
The winner of the survey, selected at random, was [...]

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After having spent much time with Groovy/Java, and a bit with Ruby and a bit with C#, I have a newer perspective on learning new programming languages.  Much of my thoughts are summed up by this post from Gustavo Duartes.  I liked his choice of words at the top – “language dabbling” – which largely [...]

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I wrote this to Brian Hitney after we’d briefly touched on cloud computing in my podcast with him last week.  I thought I’d post it here for any reaction from the rest of the internet…
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Another point on the economics that isn’t brought up is the cost of data transfer and data storage in the cloud, which [...]

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As a quick followup to my previous post (http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/six-week-test-followup-custom-business-cards/) I wanted to drop a quick update here.  Six weeks isn’t too long if it’s your only activity.  Trying to fit in a six week project in the midst of other projects and deadlines is hard, but you already knew that!.  I’m 4.5 weeks in, and [...]

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I’ve been working with a couple local people on developing a short term plan for them to get in to or move around in the web development job space, and I was wondering if there’s a need for something perhaps sightly more formal in the Raleigh area.  Here’s my initial sketch…
Weekly classes (probably Saturday morning) [...]

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I’ve been speaking with a number of local entrepreneurs over the past few weeks, and they all have a few things in common.  All are sharp, smart, have good taste (hey, they’re talking to me, right?), have some killer ideas, and seem to be stuck.  Taking definitive action on the ideas seems to be the [...]

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I’ve wanted a way to record cell phone conversations for *years*.  With the proliferation of smart phones, you’d think we’d have this by now, but it’s still not a feature widely available (and, reportedly, blocked by some device manufacturers).  So, to scratch my own initial itch, I’ve put together a service to allow me to [...]

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