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Use Gist at Github for Sharing Code Snippets

I like using pastie to share code snippet with friends and colleagues. But not now that I’ve found gist (thanks to twitter, of course).
Check this out…

That was a gist snippet I own, embedded (very easily) into my blog. You can go there, fork it, and make changes if you want, and all the [...]


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Create a new email in MS Outlook with Launchy

I realized recently that I was never looking at my Outlook application when I wanted to start a new email to someone, and I had no quick-and-easy way to launch a new email message. So after a quick search Google search, I found this site with instructions on how to do many things in [...]


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Ubuntu on the new laptop

Okay, so Ubuntu rocks!
I’ve moonlighted with Linux in the past (Slackware, Suse, & Fedora), but I’ve always ended falling back to the old crotchety standby, Windows. I kept Slackware running on my extra PC for web development for a long time, but eventually I had to scrap it for parts. But now that [...]


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Using Launchy for application launching

I work with someone from OCI who has noted that there are a finite number of keystrokes within his fingers, so every one needs to count. This leads us geeky developer-types to take advantage of shortcuts within our IDEs and frequently-used programs. I have found an application that extends this mindset seamlessly into [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: