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This site is now hosted on Bluehost.com

bpedigo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:56:24 +0000

I have been having serious speed problems with the GoDaddy hosting. It was taking about 15 seconds to load pages on this site. I compared their shared hosting speed with Bluehost.com, and the same page took 1.5 seconds to load. In other words, this site is now served 5 to 10 times faster, and for one-third the price ($4.95 / mo. for unlimited)!

I could not be happier with the move. Bluehost has excellent customer service (GoDaddy’s was good too, but they usually tried to “upsell” me when I made a support call), and Bluehost has answered my phone calls usually within 5 minutes. Check them out. Once you go Bluehost, you won’t look back. I know I won’t.

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Ruby – The Most Attractive Programming Language

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:43:32 +0000

I became a lawyer partly because I did not want to program computers full time for the rest of my career. However, a relatively new programming language has sucked me back in to the world of programming.

Ruby, more specifically, Ruby on Rails, is an amazingly intuitive and attractive programming language. It is being used to create many cutting-edge Web 2.0 websites, such as Twitter. It has powerful functions that take care of a lot of “programmer’s dirty work.”

The tools to create a Rails web application are free. For example, “Instant Rails” gives you all that you need on a Windows platform to get started. A simple, and free, text editor like Intype is all you need to write clean code.

I hope the higher education jumps on-board and starts teaching this to new programmers. The world needs more cutting-edge, Web 2.0 programmers, and less Assembly Language programmers.

10 Reasons I Love My iPhone

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:23:28 +0000

I just replaced my Verizon Voyager with AT&T’s iPhone, and I could not be happier. First of all, I get more bars (i.e. a stronger signal) with AT&T where I live in southern California. Second of all, the iPhone is the best cell phone that has ever been made. Why?

The touch-screen is big, bright, and responsive.
The auto-correct feature is very smart and fixes most predictable typing/spelling errors.
Unlimited, fast, and accurate web browsing with an almost full-featured Safari web browser.
Integration with Google applications, including gmail, calendar, and google documents.
Social networking applications are free. Including: facebook, twitter, myspace, etc.
GPS-like maps feature built-in.
Visual voicemail.
Yelp – a free app that helps you find nearby places of interest, including top consumer rated restaurants.
Video streams flawlessly over the Internet; news, movie previews, youtube, etc.
Connects to wifi when a signal is available, which is even faster than the already-fast 3G network.

This list could go on and on, but you get the picture. I love the iPhone!

P.S. This website is formatted to be easily viewable with a special iPhone theme.

Twitter is the new bandwagon

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:42:49 +0000

I am on a national attorney list-serve where solo practitioners post questions and comments about things relevant to the practice of law. The hot topic these days is about Twitter.

Twitter is a very different social networking tool in which people give “one-liner” updates as to what they’re doing. It’s an easy way for people to network, promote themselves, and learn from others. I’m using Twitter, and it is yet to be determined whether this helps with SEO.