I find it incredibly simple and handy to send application alerts (and sometimes friendly notes) via email to an sms-enabled phone. Most of the big carriers have an email to sms gateway. Here are the email addresses of the top 6 carriers.
T-Mobile
phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile
phonenumber@vmobl.com
AT&T
phonenumber@mmode.com
Sprint
phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon
phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel
phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by dysinger
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Amazon released an XUL GUI for EC2 a few months ago that plugs right into Firefox. I had been using the command line for everything but I now do some of the tasks in the GUI. Mainly I do this because it’s just easier to look at rows and rows of data in [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by dysinger
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Jonathan Weiss just released Webistrano. I had it up and running it 5 minutes flat and deploying to my beta servers. If you have been avoiding Capistrano because of the learning curve, it just got smaller. When you are done configuring and deploying your app, you can “Export” the standard capistrano delpoy [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2007 by dysinger
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Eclipse Europa (Eclipse 3.3) was recently released this summer. It has a “blessed” Ruby development plug-in that comes in the updates. Look under Help -> Software Updates -> Find Updates -> New Features. Select the Europa Discovery Site and the look for DLTK Ruby.
This editor is completely different than RDT (used [...]
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by dysinger
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With a littile work you can back up your mac every day automatically to an external, bootable drive partition without paying for backup software. All you need is a firewire or USB external drive, your OS X installation disc and a little patience.
First, get out your external drive and open Disk Utility. Click [...]
Posted on August 21st, 2007 by dysinger
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I’m bummed out about the new Hawaii Superferry. Superferry, in case you haven’t heard, is Hawaii’s first inter-island ferry system for cars and pedestrians. Great!, you might say. But wait. It was approved without any environmental impact studies. Why is this important? Lets think about this for a [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2007 by dysinger
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