The past ten days have been very trying for me, but also very productive. Despite working an incredible amount of hours at my day job (and dealing with the stress and deadlines related to what is going on there), I have managed to maintain a steady pace of productivity. I decided to utilize all my available resources (read: time) building – better to walk the walk than talk the talk. So...
I’ve been doing developing in CakePHP, which is a pretty awesome rapid development framework, that tries (with 90% success) to give die-hard PHP developers a fast way to build up applications (similar to Ruby on Rails). I’ve only gotten my feet wet with it so far, but I can see it really going places. One thing that always annoys me is developing code on my own machine, and...
Ignite is another O’Reilly-branded conference that has been “made open” in that anyone can create one in their area. Like Barcamp, it is loosely organized, more meant as a place for like-minded folk to get together, network, and brainstorm rather than really learn. BarcampDC was an incredible success… we might be looking to organize a DC one soon. If you are interested let...
A nifty Google Maps mashup shows where all the presidential candidates have been. If you drag the right-hand slider above the map all the way to the right, you can see the full timeline.
New Mexico isn’t getting any love (Bill Richardson does not count). Nor is Maryland. And if anyone can tell me which states the candidates care about most, you win a prize.
“In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
I was initially furious when I saw “Second Life“, “College of Journalism” and “$5 million” in the same paragraph, but after seeing that it’s costing less than $1,000 of taxpayer/alumni money, the fact that my alma mater is taking Second Life seriously makes me laugh.
Facebook pushed out a new change this morning that I think will be somewhat interesting to see the effects of. Your Facebook profile will now show up on Google and other search engine’s results. While it won’t have your full profile indexed (sorry, doing a search for “drunk skydiving” won’t pull up your profile), anyone who does a search for your name will soon be...
I only show up on page 3 when you do a Google search for Zvi. Be on page 1 (possibly in top 5) by the end of the year.
Hrmm…. how does SEO work again? 🙂
I act like a giddy third-grader whenever I see something that people deem “futuristic” and “impossible”. When I saw this video, my jaw dropped. Unfortunately, they start out the video by showing you how it works, rather than showing the dazzling results first.
[via Engadget]
Standing on one leg, Facebook made a couple changes to its API, which is the way other developers (like me) can write programs that Facebook users can use. That’s it. A couple API changes. Removing a couple minor features which were annoying end-users, discussing some future changes. Putting my foot down, I’m left with nothing more to say. I’m not going to tell you what it...