Doing some testing today and I felt bad for not posting anything in nearly a week. I’ve been building. Steady. Til midnight or 2am for the past week. And it’s coming together real nicely, so I’m trying to keep up the momentum up through this coming week. Until I get back to a more frequent …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Zodiac: Long, Unsatisfying
Much like the story Zodiac was retelling, it was long, drawn-out, and came to a less than satisfying end. Though the 2 decade long serial killer story was condensed down to 157 minutes, much of it could have been cut (the pre-re-married Jake Gyllenhaal character with his son, all of the murder scenes, the scene …
Streamy.com: Kicking Off the Next Generation of Feed Aggregators
Looks like somebody else out there is building a next-gen feed aggregator: Streamy.com Beta. “Our goal is to bring you personally relevant news in an engaging, collaborative environment….we do intend to kill the dry, boring RSS reader. I’m talking about the inbox-style RSS reader that is not intriguing, not social, and makes little or no …
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Podcast Advertising Not Working for Me
1. The (second) battery in my 3G iPod is dying and I want to buy a replacement. A while back, an iPod battery replacement company was running ads at Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles. But that’s all I remember. At the time the ads were running, I didn’t need an iPod battery. Now I do …
Regrets: Not Getting a CS Degree
“My advice to young people is to get a computer science degree, if for no other reason than you can avoid those odd jobs and get right to the programming.” – Brent Simmons I’m continually bumping up against my ignorace of good programming practices that one would get in Comp. Sci. 101. Not that it …
Finding Yourself on Myspace
That’s right, somewhere, out in the vastness of the MySpace network, is someone exactly like me. I feel like I’ve lapped myself.
How to Decode TinyURLs with Ruby
def reverse_tinyurl(tinyurl) require ‘open-uri’ require ‘net/http’ url = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(tinyurl)).to_hash[‘location’].to_s end This should also work for any url that is a known redirect whether it be a tinyurl.com, urltea.com, rubyurl.com, or what have you.
Prepare Your Pocketbooks
“Launching a paytoplay service in the midst of free alternatives makes little sense…But there’s a lot more to the conversation.” – Aaron Mentele Heh. That’s why the next web app I launch, I’m charging. A pile. Get ready cause, I’m looking at your pocketbook. Seriously, if you want to get in on the action early, …
I Still Don’t Care What Everyone Thinks
AideRSS (a feed-filtering service) is starting to pick up traction in my blogosphere. “[AideRSS] analyzes the activity around each item in an RSS feed – Technorati hits, comments, Del.icio.us links, traffic reports, etc. – and calculates a score for the item. It then creates four feeds from the original feed, each set to a higher …
License Recalled
Mattel Inc, recalls 9 million toys after recalling 1.5 millon. All the recalled products are licensed – Barbie, Batman, Big Bird, Cars, Dora, Elmo, Thomas (shakes fist). Back In My DayTM, very few licensed toys were allowed in the house. I’m sure it was a combination of the ickyness of branding your child, the sensitivity …