Category Archives: Life

Test Automation Seminar

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Geoff Lane

A long, long time ago in a land far away, I worked with my friend Frank Cohen to help him build the first version of a Web Service and Web Application test tool that was called TestMaker. Since then, Frank … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Leopard With the new version of Mac OS X announced we can all wait for an early Christmas! You can order yours early on Amazon for $20 less than you can get it at Apple. How? I don’t know, but … Continue reading →

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Well thanks to Dan I’ve been tagged for 5 things you didn’t know about me. So, I’ll take a deviation from my normal technical blogging and both of you (rimshot!) some interesting tidbits of information about me. I’ve never lived … Continue reading →

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My Foray Into the World of Smartphones

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Geoff Lane

Ok, so I might be a little behind the times when it comes to mobile phones and SmartPhones. It was a big advance for me when I got one with a color display and MIDI ringtones two years ago. Well, … Continue reading →

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Video Conferencing? Look to Apple’s iChat and iSight

Posted on November 16, 2006 by Geoff Lane

At SpiderLogic we have offices in Milwaukee, WI, Madison, WI and Pune, Maharshtra, India. While Milwaukee and Madison are right next door in the global sense, Pune is all the way around the world. Being so distant can make communication … Continue reading →

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Google Notebook

Posted on November 15, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I just ran across a new Google product (new to me at least). Google Notebook is a tool that allows you to store notes and snippets on a web page for later use. The Notebook can have multiple notebooks in … Continue reading →

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Akismet Works For Me

Posted on November 10, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I wanted to follow up on my previous post about dealing with blog spam. I installed Akismet and it has worked flawlessly. It has caught dozens of blog spam posts so far. I have had no false positives and no … Continue reading →

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How Do You Deal With Blog Spam?

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I assume that many of my readers are technical people and as such are likely to be bloggers themselves, so I post the question to you: How do you deal with blog spam? I’m currently getting on the order of … Continue reading →

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WordPress Code Formatting

Posted on September 25, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I finally got tired of dealing with reformatting that Wordpress does in its attempt to be “user friendly”. In general it does the right thing, but when you deal with code snipits inside <code> tags a lot it can quickly become a problem.

In just a few easy steps, the problems can be solved. Continue reading →

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MKE Ruby Group

Posted on July 13, 2006 by Geoff Lane

The Milwaukee Ruby User’s Group had it’s first official meeting last night. A few people showed up and we talked about some of our favorite ruby features. I talked about Metaprogramming a bit. There was also a good discussion about … Continue reading →

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