Ryan Berg
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I am a user experience designer in New York, NY. I also do freelance web design and development.
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And @
djangodash
is done! Awesome work this weekend, @
team566
. Our site is up at
http://beta.sortthings.com
"Get your $#!% in order"
June 1st 2009, 1:23 a.m.
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@
nathanborror
Oooh, a screencast. Nice touch!
http://pypants.com
looks great.
June 1st 2009, 1:32 a.m.
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@
ericflo
@madewithlasers The site looks awesome. That's a hell of a weekend showing!
June 1st 2009, 1:31 a.m.
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@
kpitt99
Up was a wonderful movie. You should definitely make some time to check it out.
June 1st 2009, 10:18 a.m.
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Bing is clearly not feeling lucky.
http://bit.ly/IjyOx
June 1st 2009, 10:54 a.m.
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@
kgranju
Send her over there with an entry-level, sub-30k job and see how glamorous she still finds NYC :-)
June 1st 2009, 11:14 a.m.
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@
kgranju
Send her over there with an entry level job and see how glamorous she still finds NYC :-)
June 1st 2009, 11:15 a.m.
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@
patrickbeeson
I'm picturing you in the Napoleon Dynamite FFA milk tasting scene.
http://bit.ly/xkTBo
June 1st 2009, 11:21 a.m.
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@
alawless
I'll second that endorsement for calzones at Savelli's
June 1st 2009, 2:58 p.m.
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@
jcroft
Be careful, a face can be as costly to replace as your MacBook. My MBP has been saved by MagSafe many times. My PBG4 wasn't so lucky
June 2nd 2009, 2:04 a.m.
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Current SortThings users: Rate each live Djangodash app at
http://bit.ly/wrzOw
June 2nd 2009, 3:03 a.m.
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@
arthurk
If you've registered since I since that tweet, I just added you to the Djangodash collection. Give it a try now.
June 2nd 2009, 9:51 a.m.
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@
jdavy
Sounds like a good day. How bad's the ankle? I'm just now starting to play again after injuring mine in February.
June 2nd 2009, 11:16 a.m.
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@
jdavy
Well good luck limping around. We should play some ball once you're healed
June 2nd 2009, 11:51 a.m.
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@
issya
Thanks! It was a lot of fun to work on.
June 2nd 2009, 12:08 p.m.
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@
mringlein
I tried to read it yesterday, but the server was down!
June 2nd 2009, 1:37 p.m.
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*drool* Gran Turismo 5 trailer released.
http://bit.ly/33lkZ
June 2nd 2009, 10:35 p.m.
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Running lots of pages through YSlow to benchmark our new sites at work.
June 3rd 2009, 10:54 a.m.
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Launching the first of Scripps' new mobile sites to match our new desktop sites.
June 3rd 2009, 2:24 p.m.
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@
dannydb
I was still going through the final steps to put it live. Give it a try now :-)
June 3rd 2009, 4 p.m.
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My first ever mobile site, which happens to be the first of Scripps' new mobile sites, just went live.
http://m.courierpress.com
June 3rd 2009, 5:02 p.m.
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Gonna have a tasty dinner with @
jlsime
- About to take some skirt steaks off the grill.
June 3rd 2009, 8:19 p.m.
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@
glenn1you0
Agreed. Was feeling a bit concerned with how much is on the homepage, so decided to wait till I launched it. That comes next.
June 3rd 2009, 8:18 p.m.
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User agent sniffing fail: Omniture telling me the new Opera 10 beta is obsolete and prompting me to upgrade.
June 4th 2009, 1:40 p.m.
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@
OmnitureCare
Logging into SiteCatalyst 13.5 (I think) using Opera 10b1 (released yesterday) on Mac OS X 10.5.6
June 4th 2009, 2:01 p.m.
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@
trey
I've had the opposite experience. I had two 1st-gen MS IntelliMice. First died in 6mo, second in 3mo
June 4th 2009, 5:16 p.m.
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NBA Finals not broadcasting in HD on Comcast's ABC (WATE) Knoxville feed. What's the deal?
June 4th 2009, 9:10 p.m.
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@
brendandonohue
I've been flipping back and forth. Saw some really nice goals by the Penguins :-)
June 4th 2009, 10:07 p.m.
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Something about waiting for shoes from @
zappos
to arrive makes me feel like a kid waiting for Santa.
June 5th 2009, 10:22 a.m.
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@
onemoreryan
Five Guys is easily better than In-n-Out in my opinion. Everything tastes really fresh, plus they give out free peanuts!
June 5th 2009, 11:09 a.m.
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@
jacobian
Santa was never one of my people. Not that I'm really one of my people either. You know?
June 5th 2009, 11:21 a.m.
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Taking advantage of a now-rare trip to Turkey Creek to enjoy a Five Guys burger.
June 6th 2009, 12:33 p.m.
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@
mintchaos
ooh, miltons sounds good. Going for the French toast, or something a bit less thin in the arteries?
June 6th 2009, 12:32 p.m.
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Wandered over to Fourth Street Live for people watching with @
jlsisme
after seeing Spring Awakening. It's KC's P&L district... In Louisville
June 6th 2009, 11:22 p.m.
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Just, um, took a picture with Colonel Sanders
http://twitpic.com/6t04d
June 6th 2009, 11:29 p.m.
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Back in Knoxville after a lovely trip to Louisville with @
jlsisme
June 7th 2009, 5:21 p.m.
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@
jcroft
But isn't rewriting easier when there are basic templates with all the context variables used properly?
June 8th 2009, 12:18 a.m.
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@
jcroft
And if I'm only playing role of designer on a project, and I've never written Django views, I shouldn't have to read source for help
June 8th 2009, 12:58 a.m.
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@
jcroft
I'm also comfortable working from the views. But when I got started, they made my head spin.
June 8th 2009, 12:57 a.m.
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@
webology
Agreed. In my case, it's largely because certain sections of the codebase I work with daily is missing a lot of helpful docs.
June 8th 2009, 1:14 a.m.
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Good news: Just found out my GTI's sunroof immediately opens if it traps an obstacle while closing. Bad news: The obstacle was my left hand.
June 8th 2009, 12:37 p.m.
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@
herbhimes
New airport food options at all helpful?
June 8th 2009, 12:40 p.m.
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@
kristoferbaxter
No need. Just a little redness and scraped skin since it retracted. No biggie.
June 8th 2009, 12:46 p.m.
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@
LJWJKealing
Absolutely not. No emergency repairs for my self, nor my car please.
June 8th 2009, 12:45 p.m.
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@
LJWJKealing
Yeah, sunroofs are relatively cheap. Fingers? Not so much.
June 8th 2009, 12:53 p.m.
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@
gizmodo
Paginating a liveblog makes it damn near impossible to get caught up. Bad choice.
June 8th 2009, 1:02 p.m.
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@
almcafee
I could go for a whole album along the lines of "Jockin Jay-Z" myself
June 8th 2009, 1:52 p.m.
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@
jcroft
Certainly no compelling reason to upgrade from a 3G still under contract unless you need 32gb. Speed/video are nice, but not enough.
June 8th 2009, 3:17 p.m.
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@
blturner
There's gotta be a plist value that can be changed to enable top tabs.
June 8th 2009, 4:25 p.m.
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@
mattheisig
Congrats on the decision to adopt a shiny new baby with extra-long battery life.
June 8th 2009, 5:05 p.m.
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@
lukrativ
Woah. I didn't even notice the time till you mentioned it. Where did this day go, indeed. Oh, yeah, WWDC Keynote...
June 8th 2009, 5:05 p.m.
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Bit of Djangofriendly work, then bedtime
June 9th 2009, 12:13 a.m.
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Got on a roll with my Djangofriendly work, stayed up later than planned. Oops. The next Djangofriendly site is getting close!
June 9th 2009, 1:42 a.m.
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Bad morning getting worse: arriving at the dentist.
June 9th 2009, 8:45 a.m.
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Working on the design of the news site I read every day. Haven't had this privilege since my time at
http://kansan.com
June 9th 2009, 10:57 a.m.
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@
boltron5k
You know I wouldn't give it anything less. I'm really liking the direction of all our new sites.
June 9th 2009, 11:43 a.m.
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@
jcroft
@mringlein It's slick, I just wish I could open its links in new tabs.
June 10th 2009, 12:54 p.m.
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I just gave half-serious consideration to a design with a tiled grass background. I need to get out of the office - lunchtime.
June 10th 2009, 12:57 p.m.
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@
sweeper933
You're welcome :-)
June 10th 2009, 11:05 p.m.
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@
mzlizzle
I often double-click around on text to highlight it for some reason. Which causes major issues on
http://nytimes.com
, unfortunately
June 10th 2009, 11:21 p.m.
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Gonna knock one more bit off my todo list, then hit the sack
June 11th 2009, 1:12 a.m.
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@
herbhimes
ugh. Hope you're not stuck there all day
June 11th 2009, 10:10 a.m.
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@
notasausage
That looks really nice. Which method do you use to handle the mobile version differently?
June 11th 2009, 3:12 p.m.
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@
jagreda
My first programming was on a TI-82, making programs to solve formulas as we learned them in class.
June 12th 2009, 1:47 a.m.
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Waiting for last night's clip of @
jimmyfallon
mocking Knoxville to hit the web
June 12th 2009, 10:27 a.m.
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@
robhudson
That drives me crazy, too. There is a keyboard shortcut to close it though - press ⌘-t again and the Type palette will go away.
June 12th 2009, 3:02 p.m.
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http://bit.ly/5rLuc
@
jimmyfallon
's mock Knoxville, TN promo
June 12th 2009, 3:01 p.m.
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@
jtauber
Congrats, James. Sounds like quite a trip for ya :-)
June 12th 2009, 3:10 p.m.
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@
herbhimes
has freed me from the shackles of a late Friday afternoon at the office. It's weekend time!
June 12th 2009, 4:19 p.m.
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Off to the pool!
June 13th 2009, 12:22 p.m.
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@
alex_gaynor
man I totally should have gone for /admin
June 13th 2009, 3:03 p.m.
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@
mattheisig
that's a good lookin monitor. I'm jealous
June 13th 2009, 5:07 p.m.
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After an awesome afternoon of design work, I'm off for a relaxing walk with @
jlsisme
June 14th 2009, 6:04 p.m.
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@
webology
I still can't believe I lived in the apartment above the Mad Greek for a year and never once made it down for lunch. My loss.
June 14th 2009, 9:35 p.m.
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@
alex_gaynor
Small world indeed. Who's your cousin / when was he at the Kansan? I was there 2004-2007
June 14th 2009, 10:48 p.m.
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@
mringlein
New
http://venturebeat.com
looks great! Very effective at moving the eye down the page without distraction.
June 15th 2009, 10:18 a.m.
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Turning last week's mockups into this week's real websites. And it's gonna feel good.
June 15th 2009, 10:22 a.m.
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@
LJWJKealing
File "Sosa said to test positive in 2003" under the "Lots of money spent to confirm the obvious" category
June 16th 2009, 4:38 p.m.
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My motivation to upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0: Cubs/Sox live video streaming to MLB app tomorrow.
http://bit.ly/zoMW1
June 17th 2009, 1:30 p.m.
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MLB streaming video on iPhone (over WiFi for now) looks fantastic.
June 18th 2009, 2:22 p.m.
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@
sweeper933
Jealous! Tell everyone in Tulsa I say hi :-)
June 18th 2009, 11:20 p.m.
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@
LJWJKealing
Sounds like fun! @
jlsisme
is treating me to a Sox game in Cinci this wknd. Sox need to play @ STL so I have an excuse to go
June 19th 2009, 9:06 p.m.
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@
LJWJKealing
I'm totally there. I'll trust your ticket-obtaining abilities.
June 20th 2009, 3:49 p.m.
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It's a hot day at the ballpark, but we've got some nice seats thanks to @
jlsisme
http://twitpic.com/80l3z
June 21st 2009, 12:50 p.m.
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Lots of Sox fans here in Cinci as we get ready for the first pitch. Excited to see Buehrle throwin for the sox
June 21st 2009, 1:10 p.m.
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Got to see Mark Buehrle and Bobby Jeknks pitch their way to a White Sox win thanks to @
jlsisme
! Back to Kuhnoxville we go
June 21st 2009, 4:06 p.m.
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@
jabraha7
Seems like a pretty lame announcement to me.
http://espnchicago.com
should be aggregating all the best Chicago sports content.
June 22nd 2009, 5:40 p.m.
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Good: Being the only male in a large room full of females. Bad: That room is Joann Fabrics
June 22nd 2009, 9:21 p.m.
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Starting my day by firing up IE6 in Parallels. My outlook is fearful.
June 23rd 2009, 9:55 a.m.
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Scripps' latest redesign,
http://www.redding.com/
has just launched. Time to watch the feedback coming in.
June 24th 2009, 4:50 p.m.
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@
dannydb
Yeah, can't say we're too far from that graphic. But at least we only have two ad slots in the content area.
June 24th 2009, 5:15 p.m.
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Just had a trip down memory lane while backing up files off my old TiBook. It's about to get wiped and hooked up to the TV.
June 24th 2009, 9:22 p.m.
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Very intrigued by project management in
http://www.staction.com/
June 25th 2009, 2:57 a.m.
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@
brosner
Happy birthday man
June 25th 2009, 2:26 p.m.
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@
flohrs
Agreed. There's nothing more annoying than leaning forward and getting wet
June 25th 2009, 4:02 p.m.
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@
issya
I'd be happy to pass along the 247 most absurd blog titles no designer can live without if you'd like.
June 25th 2009, 5:13 p.m.
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@
notasausage
I've been bitching about bug reports minus any actual details all week.
http://supportdetails.com
looks like a gem.
June 25th 2009, 5:59 p.m.
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Addressing some low-hanging fruit improvements on our new sites at work
June 26th 2009, 12:05 p.m.
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@
jtauber
so how'd it do in ie6?
June 27th 2009, 3 a.m.
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Back in Knoxville after a fun night in ATL with @
jcroft
and crew. Wondering where @
jlsisme
is...
June 27th 2009, 3:49 p.m.
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@
lchronister
You'll love living with @
ryanmgreene
. He's always up for a good spooning at the end of the night
June 27th 2009, 9:37 p.m.
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@
jcroft
Sounds like you found yourself a karaoke bar in ATL
June 28th 2009, 12:15 a.m.
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@
chrispumpelly
Thank you. I knew there was a reason I followed you 'round these parts. That was perfect :-)
June 29th 2009, 2:14 p.m.
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@
logancollins
Adobe's not looking back.
http://bit.ly/ttMSL
June 30th 2009, 3:29 a.m.
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Great @
techcrunch
article. "Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now"
http://bit.ly/eWgDE
(via @
derek
)
June 30th 2009, 10:31 a.m.
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@
annmelinger
I've been wondering recently if I could take my
https://djangofriendly.com
codebase and make it applicable to that industry
June 30th 2009, 11:59 a.m.
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@
brianboyer
http://fixmedill.com
seems to be a great fit for "Is this review helpful"-like comment ranking.
June 30th 2009, 12:14 p.m.
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Made it with @
jlsisme
to Chattanooga just in time to catch our flight to NYC!
June 30th 2009, 6:10 p.m.
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@
ryanmgreene
Funny thing is, I thought the KCStar article came across in a positive light
June 30th 2009, 11:48 p.m.
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@
ryanmgreene
Yup. It's normal for these kids to 2nd guess, consider options. It's not normal for dad to go on radio and talk about it.
June 30th 2009, 11:53 p.m.
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