About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Ququoo.com, my first Rails app is finally up and at a place where I’m happy with it. Ququoo turns Twitter into a timesheet – by grouping your tweets and measuring the time between them. As with any web app that was launched moments ago, there’s probably a few more things to tidy up and sort …
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Consistent with my hypothesis that Google is a social gesture company, they bought FeedBurner (a company finally reaching its only exit strategy, Thank god). Four Predictions: Six Apart now pulls auto-FeedBurning from TypePad blogs due to conflict of interest. Google incorporates FeedBurners metrics into Google Analytics and sends the rest of FeedBurner to play with …
Joyent ps pipe grep #16 starts out discussing home coffee roasting. Then they dig into the regular übergeek stuff. If they keep this up, I’ll just do an .htaccess redirect from the First Crack podcast to Joyeur. 😉 Another great quote from the podcast: “Ruby is Java for people that hate Java.”
I’m working on some upcoming theme shows and I need your help. I’m looking for stories along the lines of Unincorporated series. If you have one or two – hit record and either email the mp3 or point me to it. Themes include: Cocktail Swords Divorce Mail Order Insatiable Appetites Working on a Farm Bad …
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Jaiku’s growth strategy is getting Twitter’s overflow. But only if you look at it from a winner-take-all, one-silo-for-everyone, perspective. Look at email. I like Apple’s Mail.app. Lots of other people like Gmail. I still know people that swear by Eudora. Despite the different applications, we all still get the messages from each other. The short …
Jon Steinhorst once told me a movies are rewritten from script to shoot, and again from shoot to editing. I spent a good chunk of this week re-writing a Ruby on Rails app to go from development to production. Works fine in development. Not at all in production. The issue was a combination of frozen …
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From the St. Anthony Police Dept, 8:47am: “Our department is currently on the scene of a significant gas line break in the area of Old Highway 8 and County Road 88. At this time, officers are evacuating the residents of the Arbor’s Townhomes located in the immediate area of the break.” Update 9:20am: “The damage …
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I really dug tonight’s House (chess playing jerk kid). It was the only episode in memory where I thought the side-story was more interesting than the case.
Made some interface changes to the website. Brought back monthly and category archives, postings from the First Crack podcast and added my twitterings. All the sections in the ever-expanding bottom section are all expand-o-collapse in the effort to make some of the stuff at the bottom easier to reach. I’m wondering about the search-engine implications …
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Finally updated the WP-GotLucky download to the one I’ve been using, and David Seah fixed up for me. This version has RSS feeds by default (the previous one only did email) and automatically puts the most recent search queries in your Admin Dashboard.