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Last week, I picked up the Blackberry Storm (9530) because my contract was up and I wanted to be more connected with clients and friends when I wasn’t sitting at a laptop or computer.

Once I got the Storm, I started looking around for mobile versions and applications of services and features I regularly use. I have downloaded over 30 applications, but have since become removed all but a select few. Here are 11 free apps to help you expand the capabilities of the BlackBerry Storm. (more…)

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New to Twitter and looking to expand your Twittersphere? Even if you are a seasoned tweeter, then you need to be added to these directories so others may find you. These active directories are all different ways of associating people with similar interests or geography using the developer-friendly Twitter API.
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There is a relatively simple exploit going on in my PHP Link Directory, phpLD, script that has gotten significantly more popular in the last two months. I don’t intend to open the floodgates to shady link builders, but hope to bring attention to the script creators to find a way to remedy the problem within the application.

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Take one part regular expressions, one part ColdFusion and one part Fark.com and you can see all the pics posted on the story comments minus all the comments.

I have been trying to hone my RegEx skills to use for good and a little bit of evil, so I decided to challenge myself. I read Fark.com almost daily and love the pictures that people post along with comments about the particular story. During my lunch break, I only have a limited amount of time to browse without a content filter, so I end up skimming the comment pages for the funny/interesting pics.

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If one aspect of your link building is submitting your site to link directories, then you should try this to save tons of time. I take advantage of the bookmarking feature in Firefox 3. It takes your long list of potential directories and makes smaller, more manageable batches. Time is also saved because you can open the contents of those smaller batches with a single mouse click.
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Going back and updating old code sucks. Especially, if you need to update code because it was statically coded. I have been migrating a an older registration form for my current project, and noticed a the credit card year date field still had 2006 in the select list. I created a solution that was reusable for any of my projects and I would not have to worry about updating the years ever again.

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It’s been hectic for the last month with the fresh development of one of our major sites and myriad of other things on the home front. I can safely say, I am ready for some fun. Saturday, the web team and myself leave Chicago for Adobe MAX which is held in San Francisco this year.

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The Eclipse Open Source IDE coupled with the CFML plugin, CFEclipse, has been embraced by the ColdFusion community for years. All of my sites were built with HomeSite and Dreamweaver. I was waiting for a good excuse to start a site from scratch in Eclipse. Three weeks later, I am loving the functionality, power and ease. The Kool-Aid is quite delicious.

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I was looking through Digg today and came across a new file sharing and storage service that just just launched today called, Dropbox. I downloaded the installer and was up and running with a fresh account and I was sharing files with friends in a few minutes.
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Looking to do some link building for you own site or your clients? Then you need to bookmark the LinkBuildingWiki.com. It is an all inclusive list of everything you need to learn about the art of link building and find some new methods.
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