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Side Projects and Distractions

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I know I’ve made this into more a link dump as late - but I try to add a little flavor to my collections, and perhaps it’s time to reveal what’s been taking up my time.
I recently returned from my brother’s wedding in Denver (Congratulations, bro!), was able to enjoy Wynkoop’s
, check out the Denver [...]

Signing your code.

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A novice still has room to learn
An intermediate knows his stuff, but can still grow.
An expert can teach others.
A professional gets paid to do it.
Don’t fall in th e”professional” trap.

I bring this up because, as you may or may not realize, I code for Resource Interactive.
Now I’ve coded “professionally”
for a few years - meaning I’ve [...]

Weezer - Pork and Beans

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

I love that my prior work had me working with some of the stars of this video (in a totally not directly way).

Seesmic, Twitter, WebApp overkill?

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Seesmic - the video twitter? Twitter - the text seesmic?
I’ve got to agree with VentureBeat - Twitter and Seesmic are quirky web applications, with increasing adoptions.
I’ve heard of Seesmic before - and I’ve clicked around a bit - and am convinced that video will kill the internet star. Or maybe Seesmic will kill that ideal, [...]

Pandora AIR App

Friday, May 9th, 2008

As a huge fan of internet radio, it would be remiss of me not to point out this excellent, simple PandorAIR app.
Now someone needs to port pandorafm to an air app!

Flex 3 - I’m gushing.

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

The fact that I wrapped up flex training has nothing to do with this, I swear ;)
Verizon just unleashed a new flex application for selling ring backs and ring tones.
Are you serious? This is incredible! A big-name company releasing an application built on a new technology! I wish other companies did this to show how [...]

SezWho - a quick review of privacy

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

SezWho is similar to Disqus. They both manage your commentary content and add a certain level of community. SezWho allows gravatars, and let’s you rate the person commenting - creating the ability for someone to say, be a popular commenter and give them a certain “ribbon” if you will, of credibility (or at least likability).
Personally, I’m [...]

Why do you blog?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

This becomes the paradigm of blogging in general - and I’ve pondered this thanks to a comment Andrea Hill left me the other day.
Why do you blog?

I maintain a few (I have a Livejournal, too!) and I determine what I want to put where, and why that blog exists. I determine what vibe I want [...]

Dropping Disqus

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I’ve broken up with Disqus.
I like what they’re doing - the whole “one-stop shopping for commenting.” It integrated well. It was pretty neat. Lots of sites adopt it.
But I don’t like branding my site with your name. I don’t like being able to not manage my stuff locally. I don’t like you having a log [...]

Suffering from Duplicity

Monday, April 28th, 2008

In my efforts to play with wordpress and blogging at large, I’ve suffered from the dreaded duplicate content. Not posting twice, not posting two versions of the same thing - but the tweet posts (and twitter sidebar). Watching it from my side has been interesting, and I get the dreaded sense of overkill that comes [...]

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