Besides riding to the top of here, watching these guys win an unwinnable game, and having a crap-ton of fun here, I still managed to code an extraordinary amount. Wrote a Facebook application (I’ll talk about talk about that eventually), came up with a bunch of ideas for other ones (if I feel like spending the time…), and got a large amount of work done on my main project. As usual...
I spent hours looking for something like Metro Times (train times via text message), and couldn’t find anything. So after spending a good chunk of time coding up Metro Times and getting it to a finished state, I was sure I was offering something totally new. And then while writing the previous blog announcement, I did some browsing, and found these dudes and a blog I read daily already do...
I first wrote about this here and here. But now, it’s done.Metro Times – Get DC Metro Train Times on Any Cell Phone – FREE Fellow residents of the DC area! No more rushing to the nearest metro station, only to find the next train is 15 minutes away! Now, all you have to do is send a plain vanilla text message with the name of the station you are heading to, and receive the times...
I’m 99% serious about this. Get a bunch of smart hackers with open source experience together, with the sole goal of keeping Firefox’s memory consumption under control. I can guarantee you will get funded be richer than your wildest dreams within a matter of hours. Personally, I almost never pay for software (I stick with open source, older versions I have, or software given out by...
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.