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Tech, Life, & Stuff…

A Blog by Franklin Pettit

April 9, 2008

Beta Feedback should be much easier

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

Feedback in the form of BETA bug reporting and feature requesting should be EASY on all BETA sites. Everything is BETA and a work in progress when it is first released. One thing I continually notice as I register and try site after site is the lack of continuity in methods to give feedback.
It should [...]


April 8, 2008

Review: Visual Studio 2008 or not

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Microsoft

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This was going to be a review of Visual Studio 2008. I went to a Launch event today in Charlotte, NC. Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Home Server 2008.
Before I tell you about the day. Let me start by saying I like Microsoft technology. The [...]


April 7, 2008

Are Del.icio.us Updates Broken on FriendFeed?

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Del.icio.us, FriendFeed

Are Del.icio.us Updates Broken on FriendFeed? I saved a link on del.icio.us Sunday night and noticed that in had not shown up in my FriendFeed.
I noticed this last week when Louis Gray linked to my post “The FriendFeed Disjointed Comments Problem.” I noticed then that it was not in his friendfeed.
Stay tuned for [...]


April 5, 2008

Toluu Invites

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Feeds, GoogleReader, Invites, RSS, Toluu

Toluu the new beta RSS sharing site is currently in private beta. Never heard of it? Check out this ReadWriteWeb article. I have some invites if interested. Leave a comment with your email if you want one.
Update 06/13/2008: Toluu is gaining alot of momentum. The latest enhancements are great. [...]


April 4, 2008

Links 04-04-2008

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Links, Plugins, RSS

I hope to use the SimplePie plugins soon to auto post portions of my FriendFeed onto this blog. I have upgraded my Wordpress and can not get the plugin to work but soon I hope.
Links:

Test Your Geography Knowledge- USA
SimplePie.org
LocateTV


April 3, 2008

The FriendFeed Disjointed Comments Problem

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : FriendFeed, Google, RSS

FriendFeed is great. I like the service but let me describe the Disjointed Comments problem. The aggregation needs to group based upon link. For example, Louis Gray wrote a nice post titled “TechMeme Leaderboard’s Top Ten: Six Months In.” On his FriendFeed alone there are 3 seperate entries to this post. [...]


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I coined this blog "Tech, Life, & Stuff" for lack of a better description. This blog is primarily about my view on tech from South Carolina. I am a South Carolina software developer. More>

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