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I’ve spent this morning trying to get ASDoc to generate code documentation for the JASPA APIs, with mixed results.
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I re-learned a few old lessons last week.

1. 1&1 suck like it’s going out of fashion
   
2. The only backup is a full disk image backup
3. I am not a Linux sysadmin

And finally a lesson for 1&1 .. good customer service is about exceeding expectations not covering your arse*.

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When I block a commercial user on Twitter I hashtag it #dmblock, a few people have assumed [almost] rightly that DM stands for Direct Message. It could do, buy actually I intended it to stand for Direct Marketing – it could also stand for Data Mining. Read more…

After a brief exchange of tweets with @jsmag I discover this web development ‘podcast’ : webdevgeekly.com, which appears to be run by the same people as jsmag.com. About 9 minutes into the following podcast there is a 2 minute discussion about JASPA. Conveniently just 24 hours after I rescued my site from a hardware crash.

> http://www.webdevgeekly.com/r/www.webdevgeekly.com/mp3/geekly6.mp3

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Disaster has struck and I have lost all my uploads on this blog. Lots of links to code examples, Flash demos and images will be broken. I may be able to restore some, but it’s going to take a lot of work, and I may as well be honest – I’m probably not going to bother.

I’ll post with the full, fascinating story of my epic fail later on. Read more…