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Mysterious but cool “to” top level domain on Google DNS
Well, Google is vying for more control of the Internet. I suppose some might see it that why but I just honestly appreciate fast domain name resolution. I also gloat in the satisfaction of knowing that my divorced parent’s will both now being using Google DNS instead of that service originally provided by their respective ISPs, who [...]
The new BlackBerry Application Guide
I recently posted my opinion about the excellent QuickLaunch application from NikkiSoft and mentioned that I was going to post another article about certain applications you shouldn’t download because their claims are either not true or misleading. Instead of creating a one-off post, I’ve created a website called the BlackBerry Application Guide which is intended [...]
Review of Version 3 of AdSense from Google
Greetings all!
Maybe I’m on some Google beta tryout list (I wish!) but I received the following e-mail this morning regrading the new Google AdSense interface:
—–Original Message—–
From: adsense-noreply@google.com
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:24:02
To: <….>
Subject: New AdSense interface enabled for your account
Hi,
We’ve launched a limited beta test of our new AdSense account interface to a select group [...]
QuickLaunch by NikkiSoft for the BlackBerry and Other Apps
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I recently bought a BlackBerry Bold 9000. Since my purchase, RIM and its associate mobile phone service providers have launched the slimmer Bold 9700 (the “Onyx”) but I’m not fretting even though the reviews have been positive. From what I hear in the CrackBerry.com forums, some users lament [...]
Mastering Django (part 1)
Motivation
I first attempted to learn how to use Django a little less than a year after it was first released, in the summer of 2006 when I was 19 years old. Young and still finding my footsteps with Python I, like many other Django users, grew tired of creating slightly different web application frameworks for [...]
Google’s Homepage Now Loads in Pieces
Google seems to have updated there homepage recently. The change is subtle (well, maybe not to geeks!) and it is an optimization for low speed connections. The essentials of the search page load instantly in the first request. This entails a the ubiquitous Google logo as well as the search form with only the character input HTML widget and no [...]
Writing from my BlackBerry Bold
Greetings! I am excited to be posting from my new BlackBerry Bold. While I haven’t been posting too often recently, Wordpress for BlackBerry has revived me and given me new capabilities when it comes to Internet communications. The BlackBerry Wordpress application is simple to use but elegant elegant in design. Wordpress, of course, has an [...]
RyanKaskel.com Internet Consulting is no more!
There use to be a small link at the top of this page that led you to an unfinished, ghost town of a site called RyanKaskel.com Internet Consulting. I intended it to be a “catch all” company that would provide casual small business (or users of any type) users who wanted a web presence or [...]
I’ve Been a Bit Busy Lately, but Here are Some Python/Django Project Updates
I’ve been a bit busy lately, between schoolwork and web design but here are the latest updates…
django-staticpages version 0.10 will be released on Sunday night – Since I’ve been working on a client’s project, several new use cases for the Django application have been recognized. The biggest change will be in the ordering of Menu [...]
Model Development Tips for Django Projects
In this post I want to present a few tips for Django model development that have turned out to be quite useful for my own projects. But first I want to pause and ask my readers a simple question (skip this digression if you care only about the title’s subject :
Do you capitalize all [...]
