shepherdweb.com http://shepherdweb.com Shane Shepherd: web design and development; music Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Busy Day at the Office for Mozilla http://shepherdweb.com/2008/06/17/busy-day-at-the-office-for-mozilla/ http://shepherdweb.com/2008/06/17/busy-day-at-the-office-for-mozilla/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:33:03 +0000 Shane http://shepherdweb.com/?p=169 The much publicized release of Firefox 3.0 and the goal of setting a world record for the most downloads in 24 hrs has the Mozilla servers on the ropes.

Here’s a direct link to the setup file: Firefox Setup 3.0.exe. Good luck!

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  • Number of Apple computers in my house: 4
  • Number of Apple computers with Leopard: 2
  • Time spent downloading and installing iPhone SDK: approx. 30 min.
  • Time spent learning Cocoa and Objective-C: approx. 8hrs
  • iPhone Applications developed to date: 0
  • Book(s) I’m planning to purchase: 1

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    ]]>     http://shepherdweb.com/2008/06/13/iphone-development/feed/     What I’ve Been Up to Lately http://shepherdweb.com/2008/05/26/what-ive-been-up-to-lately/ http://shepherdweb.com/2008/05/26/what-ive-been-up-to-lately/#comments Mon, 26 May 2008 20:05:26 +0000 Shane http://shepherdweb.com/?p=167 I’ve been busy (…and a lousy blogger)!

    First, much of the last months have been devoted to preparing for the birth of my son. Born almost a month ago now…healthy and happy! Preparation consisted mostly of reshuffling a large percentage of our belongings to make room in the house for his stuff. He doesn’t take up much room…but his stuff does.

    Along the same line, we’ve decided we don’t have enough room in our current home to live like we are for very long. Don’t get me wrong, we feel blessed to have a home at all. But the fact is, between having a home work space for two adults and space for two kids to sleep and play, our 1200 sq ft home is feeling a little cramped right now. Therefore, we’ve been preparing our house for market, and saving a down payment.

    If that’s not enough, I accepted a new position at Tyler Technologies about two months ago. I’m now in a management role as the Product Manager for the Special Projects Team. This has been an exciting challenge so far. I love making decisions and being the guy who’s responsible for making sure projects get done and stay on track.

    This is the “catch up” post. Stay tuned for more….

    ]]>     http://shepherdweb.com/2008/05/26/what-ive-been-up-to-lately/feed/     SXSW 2008 http://shepherdweb.com/2008/03/10/sxsw-2008/ http://shepherdweb.com/2008/03/10/sxsw-2008/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:33:57 +0000 Shane http://shepherdweb.com/2008/03/10/sxsw-2008/ I’m not there. But, one of my best friends—and my business partner Scott Faris is! If you see this guy walking around, go introduce yourself.
    Scott Faris
    Then say nice things about me to each other and while buying each other lunch.

    By the way, Scott and I recently finished FarisWheel 2.0. We had a lot of fun building a site for ourselves—and building it the way we wanted it—a welcome change from clients telling us what to do all the time.

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    ]]>     http://shepherdweb.com/2008/03/10/sxsw-2008/feed/     ASP.NET MVC Presentation Notes http://shepherdweb.com/2008/02/20/aspnet-mvc-presentation-notes/ http://shepherdweb.com/2008/02/20/aspnet-mvc-presentation-notes/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:25:41 +0000 Shane http://shepherdweb.com/2008/02/20/aspnet-mvc-presentation-notes/ This post contains notes, links and a .zip of the project I built in my presentation to the Lubbock .NET Users Group. Requirements for this project include the following:

    • ASP.NET 3.5 Framework
    • ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP
    • ASP.NET MVC Toolkit
    • Visual Studio 2008

    Sites with Tutorial, Tips, Help, etc..

    Sample Project

    The sample project is a very basic issue tracking system. The database is not included, but can easily be built according to the following diagram:
    database diagram (click to view)

    Have fun! [Download project files]

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    ]]>     http://shepherdweb.com/2008/02/20/aspnet-mvc-presentation-notes/feed/     How to Become an Email Processing Ninja http://shepherdweb.com/2007/08/27/how-to-become-an-email-processing-ninja/ http://shepherdweb.com/2007/08/27/how-to-become-an-email-processing-ninja/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:14:16 +0000 Shane http://shepherdweb.com/2007/08/27/how-to-become-an-email-processing-ninja/ Merlin Mann recently addressed Google employees and advised them to become email processing ninjas. “Inbox Zero”, based on Getting Things Done by David Allen, he advises that your email inbox should be empty when you have finished checking your email. “Checking your email” shouldn’t consist of simply scanning your inbox for new messages and opening the few that catch your eye—it should be an actionable event. Each message has a place—often that place is the trash. Make that event happen as soon as possible. He further suggests turning off your email application for the majority of the day and only checking your email a few times per day. This will help you avoid the constant interruptions of new mail and actually focus on real tasks!

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    ]]>     http://shepherdweb.com/2007/08/27/how-to-become-an-email-processing-ninja/feed/     No Matter How Much You Like Your Mac… http://shepherdweb.com/2007/08/23/no-matter-how-much-you-like-your-mac/ http://shepherdweb.com/2007/08/23/no-matter-how-much-you-like-your-mac/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:20:49 +0000 Shane http://www.shepherdweb.com/2007/08/23/no-matter-how-much-you-like-your-mac/ Don’t become a Macintosh Witness!

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