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wigglywonk
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Comment #467984
No. I would pretend that I was seriously considering it, and then would find something that was nearly as good and never come back. cf. Salon.com (despite the fact that it went fre…
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Comment #453577
Skip the book. Find, read, and 'do' a few online tutorials, and you'll know over 90% of what you need to get going. Pick one specific to your engine of choice (MySQL in this case, …
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Comment #421523
The old ESPN site was just god-awful. This new one is better. I'll still probably never visit, but at least now I'll call it that "less awful site I never go to" instead of that 'h…
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Comment #372694
Gandi.net ... Not the cheapest, but reliable as hell and not based out of the US.
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Comment #365733
I still have those 5 chapters of that first "book" I never wrote. I like to go back and look at them every once in a while -- they're not great :-P.
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Comment #365732
I actually wrote some 150 pages of a first (technical) book before sending out proposals to 10-15 publishers to which I received a resounding ... nothing. I think maybe one rejecti…
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Comment #365319
Just start writing, using whatever works best for you. I've been using TextEdit on the mac a lot lately for my writing, but anything's good. If you're writing for a publisher, then…
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Comment #223482
Firefox is a -beast- on the mac. It drags and constantly seems to be using 5% of CPU, doesn't do fonts right, and hangs and lags a lot. So, i use Safari about 80% of the time. Howe…
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