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Entries from January 23rd, 2009

Moving? Redirect with htaccess and 301

January 23rd, 2009 1 Comment

If you’ve ever moved your site from one server to another, or changed domain names you know how difficult it can be to redirect all your old traffic to the new location. Here’s a quick trick to make the transition totally seamless. Redirect 301 / http://kdmurray.net/ This will redirect every URL beneath the root (” [...]

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Aussie Geek Podcast Receives Podcast Bunker Award

January 19th, 2009 3 Comments

This past week the AGP received an award from the folks at the Podcast Bunker for its high-quality audio production. For those who have listened to the show you’re already aware of the high-standard that the show’s founder Dave Gray sets for the show. I take a note of personal pride in this as well [...]

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Multiple RSS Feeds with DualFeeds

January 19th, 2009 No Comments

I’m a huge fan of bloggers (and podcasters and well… everyone else for that matter) using full feeds for subscribers to their sites.  I’ve got no time for people who demand that I hit their website to be able to read the content.  If you want to monetize the feed that’s fine, but let me [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Health is None of Your Business

January 16th, 2009 3 Comments

Steve Jobs announced yesterday, in an email to Apple employees, that he would be taking a medical leave of absence from his day-to-day duties as CEO of Apple to focus on a significant health issue. Jobs has provided significant leadership the company helping to guide it from near failure to a worldwide leader in consumer [...]

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Learning by Disaster

January 15th, 2009 1 Comment

I was reading an article on Raymond Chen’s blog today really made me think. The story, for those who don’t care to read it, essentially is about a service (shell.windows.com) which was created by a Microsoft developer as a proof of concept. He ran it off a computer under his desk at first and that’s [...]

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