Tonight I decided to update my site to the Graffiti CMS Beta 2 bits (from the Beta 1 bits). It took exactly one hour to update the site, from the time the thought crossed my mind to being completely done. Rather than leave unneeded files lying about, I decided to do a clean install. I also decided to...
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As a Program Manager, I am a Jack of many trades, a Renaissance woman of sorts. One of the things I find myself doing is remotely connecting to servers to check error logs, look at files, review IIS settings, and various other things. With Windows Server 2003, logging off was always a bit uncomfortable...
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Boy was I excited when I won an Apple iPhone at the Telligent Christmas party! On the stage to claim my prize, I proudly announced "Now I can be part of the club!". Several of my coworkers, including but not limited to Rob Howard , Scott Watermasysk , and Jose Lema have iPhones and love them...
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Much to my surprise, I have received the 2008 Microsoft MVP Award for my efforts in the Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET technical community. This is my fourth consecutive year, with awards in 2005, 2006, 2007, and now 2008. Thank you to Microsoft and the community for the recognition!...
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Since Graffiti is so new, there are not a lot of themes out there in the wild, yet. My graphic design skills are non-existent, so I decided to hunt down a Wordpress theme that I liked, then convert it to Graffiti CMS . My friend Google came to the rescue in finding different sites containing Wordpress...
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Many months ago I purchased a Western Digital 320GB USB/FireWire My Book external hard drive. Isn't it cute? Unfortunately, my Dell Inspiron 9300 has a 4-pin FireWire, but the My Book is a 6-pin. Since I do not have an adapter, I was left to use the slower USB connection. My intent was to offload a bunch...
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I am now using FeedBurner to deliver my RSS feed, so that I can better understand my readership. FeedBurner offers a free as well as a professional level of service. I opted for the free service. Adding FeedBurner to a Graffiti CMS site is as easy as adding Google Analytics . Here are the steps: Sign...
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Now that I will be pushing some content to the site, I decided it would be nice to be able to keep an eye on traffic. My web host, Server Intellect , does offer Urchin to track my traffic, but getting to that data is inconvenient for me. Plus others I know are using Google Analytics and I'd prefer to...
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I am pleased to announce that TerriMorton.com is now running Graffiti CMS Beta 1! "What had it been running before?", you may ask. Well, those of you who enjoy poking fun of me will know that I was running a page like this: Coming Soon(er or later) . I had long planned to put up Community Server...
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