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Published: 2014-02-07

GiveCamp 2014

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This weekend is GiveCamp Memphis, and I'm pretty excited to be a part of it. It's hosted this year by Cowork Memphis, which is a pretty great local coworking space. If you're not familiar with GiveCamp, it's a weekend-long event where the technically-inclined donate their time and skills to a select group of local noprofit organizations. The end results may include anything from new logos, to new web designs, to brand-new applications. Even though this will ...


Published: 2014-01-28

Old-school Skitch and CloudFiles with ftp-cloudfs

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I'm an unabashed fan of Skitch. The old one (pre-Evernote acquisition). A lot of folks have written about how to acquire this and how they use it. Until recently, I just used the built-in SFTP support to upload files to a Rackspace CloudServer. Lately however, I've been trying to limit the amount of stuff I have on servers that I have to maintain. One way I've been doing that is to push everything that looks like a ...