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I keep forgetting this…

doctype + tab, then select the type of html doc you need.

Create the HTML tag. Then head+tag followed by body+tag.

Will I remember now? no.

I’m reading Pragmatic Thinking & Learning, which pointed me in the direction of Think! for mac.

It hides all but one application so you don’t spend your life being distracted by email, google reader, IM, another email, wondering why that command-line was open, another email (this one from a cronjob, saying nothing interesting) and someone saying “thanks” on IM.

Concentrating would be so much easier if the internet didn’t exist, but Think! is a good second-best.

Get it from: http://freeverse.com/assets/apps/7013/app-page-image.jpg

As part of my rare and virtually non-existant series on debugging techniques, I’ve put together a Debugging Strategy Cheatsheet summarising the strategies for fixing code quickly and efficiently that I’ve collected from various sources.

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We setup our Rackspace Cloud account for internal development today and it is nice…

Amazon Web Services

We’ve been using Amazon Web Services for a few years now, and I still really like what they have to offer, but it must be said that Rackspace have thought about making things cuddly. Before we got into AWS, we were using Rackspace for dedicated hosting but never go around to trying their cloud hosting because…. well, just too busy.

Then they asked us to build their website for them and gave us some lovely VMs and access to Cloud Files.

The interfaces Rackspace have made are nice than those Amazon provide, in my opinion, but it’s worth thinking about why. Amazon went into cloud computing thinking they’d be the British Sugar of the industry: sell the fundamental commodity, encourage an ecosystem around them and bring in the popular and proven. Nice.

Rackspace are all about support, so you might be reselling their services but as far as they’re concerned you’re the end user, and you feel it.

Anyway… first day so let’s see how it goes.