Saturday, October 31, 2009

White List An Email Address in Gmail

Recently I set up an email address with my alma mater, University of North Florida in order to receive updates from them. When setting up an email address with them they prefer to redirect to an existing address for alumni. There had been reports of issues of mail forwarded to Gmail accounts not making it. I figured easy fix, just white list the address they are forwarding from. It took me a bit of muddling through to find the way google would like you to do this via filters.

First, click the "Create a filter" link



Second, provide the email address you would like to white list and click the "Next Step" button.



The last step is to check the "Never send it to Spam" check box and click the "Create Filter" button.



You'll see the confirmation message and your new white list filter displayed and you should be displayed below. Any mail sent to you from that address should come in without issue.



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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Git Cards: How I'm Learning Continued

Newest set of study cards are out. Get some Git foo in Keynote and Powerpoint formats. Pick your flavor. This is not a complete list by any means just the core list I'm find myself using most often. Once again input on refinements and additions are greatly appreciated.

For in depth studying or quick references there are a lot of good resources on the github.

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Hashrocket and Tweeblocker News Spot


I'm really excited about the success of Tweetblocker and for being fortunate enough to be part of the team at Hashrocket. So far we've received great write-ups from Mashable and Read Write Web. Tonight Tweetblocker earned us a spot on our local news station Action News Jax. (You can see the video on their website just to the right of the story.)

We're most excited about the response the application has gotten from the twitter community. We've been getting a lot of ideas and feedback. If you have feedback or ideas on Tweetblocker please checkout our User Voice Page and message us on Twitter.

We also appreciate the support and understanding we've seen as the app has grown extremely fast and we had to scramble to stay ahead of the growth. In the past couple weeks since release we have grown from fewer than 200 users to just over 6,000 and are still seeing a strong daily uptick in that number.

We had a great phone call with some of the powers that be at Twitter. They have some new features coming out around their api and the data they make available which will give us more to work with as we improve Tweetblocker's ability to decipher the spammers from the legitimate Twitter users so stay tuned and keep fighting the good fight!

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