Rob Herbst

I am honored to have been named one of LISTnet’s Top Twenty Techies (T3) for 2006. Thanks to all my friends who attended the event to celebrate with me.

Here’s my addition to the lists started on the Retrospector blog and commented on by Michael Affronti and Steve Clayton:

Geeks like to be challenged with really interesting problems.

Most geeks, myself included, want to be challenged with really interesting problems to solve. The kind of problems that are only limited by your own creativity and determination to come up with the most simple, elegant and effective solution.

Do you have any more you would add to the list?

I found a very interesting blog called “Softies On Rails” that is written by two developers who have spent a lot of time developing software using Microsoft .NET.

Here are a few of my favorite posts on their blog:

Rails IDE for Windows after reading this post I downloaded the IDE and it’s like a mini version of Visual Studio just for Ruby On Rails — pretty cool.

Ruby 101: It’s a script

.NET to Rails Survival Guide

Why Rails? Part 3: Ruby

Why Rails? Part 5: Because I can test it

Overall a very interesting blog. Subscribed! And good luck with your new venture guys!

Here is my entry for the latest Problogger Group Writing Project. If you would like to participate too, you can submit your entry before the end of the day Thursday August 17th.

I wanted to write about something that I thought would be very useful to anyone who uses the web. The search box on Google has some neat features in addition to searching. Here are my favorites:

1. Calculator - performs math and conversions
1. 5 miles in km
   
2. 2 ^ 6
   
3. 34 * 97
2. URL Information - find out what sites link to a url
1. www.problogger.net
3. Definitions - provides the definition of the word entered
1. define Blog
4. Phone Number Lookup - you can look up residential and business phone numbers
1. starbucks new york
5. Answers - you can enter in fact based questions and Google returns the answers
1. population of united states
2. birthplace of bill gates
6. Site specific searches - if you enter a site:url then your search results are restricted to just that site
1. list site:problogger.net
7. Stock quotes - enter a ticker and get a stock quote including a chart
1. goog
8. Weather
1. weather san jose, ca
9. Map Info
1. 1 infinite loop, cupertino, ca
10. Movies - display movie information for a given location or zip code
1. movies 98104

To see the whole list of Google search features visit their help center.

Welcome! I’ve now officially relocated my blog to my new site.

If you subscribe to my RSS feed, you don’t need to change anything, because my feeds are handled by FeedBurner, thanks to a tip from my good friend Nick.

I was very happy overall with the blogger service, it was a great way to get started. But now that I’m posting more, there were features, like categories/tags, trackbacks, etc that just weren’t supported.

If possible, please help me test my new site, by either sending a trackback my way, or posting comments so that I can make sure those sections of my site are working.

Thanks!

Thanks for visiting. My new blog isn’t completely setup yet. In the meantime please visit my existing blog at http://robherbst.blogspot.com.

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Thanks!