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29Apr/100

Microsoft Office 2010 Retail Version Leaked

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The new version of Office 2010 has been leaked.

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From CNET:
The Microsoft Office 2010 technical preview is available today through invite only and--though it's not in its final form--there are plenty of feature enhancements to be excited about, if Microsoft can pull it off. According to Microsoft, the focus of this update was on three things: to make work flows more efficient; to effectively use Web applications to make your work available anywhere; and to make collaboration with others much easier. In this CNET First Take, we'll take a look at some of the notable feature changes across many of the applications. Microsoft says Office 2010 will let you use your PC, phone, and the Web to make your projects come together more efficiently. From what we've seen, they might be right and the Web applications might also give Google Docs a run for their money.
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8Apr/100

Giving Ruby a try

I've recently felt the urge to learn and master one (or several) of the new-hippie programming languages. I've done some Google searches and now I have to decide between the all-hailed Perl, the syntax crazed Python and the user-friendly Ruby.

Seeing as I'm a syntax whore myself, I started up with Python learning simple loop functions and variable definitions. I quickly felt ill with all the UGLY syntaxing. So I killed that project.

I read up on Perl and decided to look at that last.

I moved onto Ruby, and that's where I'm at right now.
I've downloaded the libraries from the website (linky) and I'll post some code up when I get a chance. I might define how to make and call custom functions or something like that.

If you've got an opinion on the Perl vs. Python vs. Ruby debate, please let me know what you think so I can refine my fiddling.

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4Apr/100

I Use BlogDesk

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Wordpress is (by far) the most amazing blogging utility. However, the user interface of the admin panels isn't up to par with others. I needed to find a way to use Wordpress to power my blog AND find another way to post to it. I went through some WP settings and discovered that I could post to my blog through either email or a third party software.

Email seemed too simple and would probably prove too much of a hassle to add images and format the posts the way I wanted. So I looked into the third party applications that could run from my computer without having to log into my admin panel.

Then I ran across BlogDesk....

From their website:
"BlogDesk is totally free of charge and optimized for the blog systems WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity and ExpressionEngine.

Whether it's grandma & grandpa or the corporate blogger, whether it's an online diary or a high traffic blog, they all will profit from BlogDesk. And sure enough, their readers will, too. "

I did try other publishing software before BlogDesk, but it's the only one that had everything I needed. Every post I've put up on this blog has been published using BD and I haven't been disappointed yet.

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