Ramada Plaza Milwaukee kicks my 70 year old mother out at midnight

Dear Ramada Worldwide,

Your Wisconsin Ramada Plaza Hotel on 13th at College Ave in Milwaukee just kicked my 70 year old mother out of her hotel room at midnight, because I complained about accessibility.

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A Response to Tom Henrich's Document The Why

On his blog, Tom Henrich1 calls for better developer documentation2 on why a design decision was made, rather than just what decision was made. In this post I share my example.

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MODX can beat up your content management system

Tonight’s Milwaukee Web Design Meetup featured a CMS MegaPanel - eight pros in eight content management systems, head to head on development, features, ecosystems, costs. I represented for MODX.

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A quick note on MongoDB replica sets

MongoDB is replying to a replica-set add command with “Need most members up to reconfigure, not ok”. The problem is with my configuration.

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My 18-monitor setup

Sitting right now at my desk at Top Floor Technologies, I’ve got 18 monitors available to me as I work. Excessive? Nah. 18 is almost enough.

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Drupal, on GlusterFS, on Rackspace Cloud

I ran Drupal on GlusterFS for a few days. I didn’t like it. Here’s why.

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Elavon Phishing Scam

A customer received 40,000 mailer-daemon messages yesterday. I bet that was fun.

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Tryton as an e-commerce back-end - Web Framework

This is part three in a series exploring how Tryton might fare as the heavy-lifting portion of an e-commerce package. This third part explores what it means to do e-commerce.

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DjangoCon, part four

Here’s the recap of day three, the last day of the talks. Apparently I took good notes on day three, since this is by far the longest post, and the one it took me longest to produce. It was, indubitably, an excellent day.

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DjangoCon, part three

Day two is done, and I’m trying to do better at this. I definitely have better notes than yesterday. I have slightly fewer of them too, since the South session was absolutely worthless to me, and I blew off Tilting at Windmills to go up to the room with a stomach ache and a customer who needed help.

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