Zvi Band

Category: Geekery

  • Learning Expression Engine

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    Out of desire to learn something new, and in part due to specific needs on upcoming client engagements, I sat down and plowed my way through Expression Engine. After about five or six hours of slugging through Michael Boyink’s amazing tutorial, I’m feelin’ a bit like Neo (youtube video below) Having started out hacking out…

  • Blast Off

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    My father‘s satellite launched on Wednesday! GLAST Spacecraft Lauch

  • Taking Opportunities

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    I touched on this before, but Marc Andreesen’s essay about careers and creating and accepting opportunities rather than having a definite plan really resonated in me. I believe a huge part of what people would like to refer to as “career planning” is being continuously alert to opportunities that present themselves to you spontaneously, when…

  • I Made a Fire Eagle Application

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    Late last year I mentioned that Yahoo was coming out with it’s own location management platform. They launched it last week in private beta. At this point – it really is just that, a platform. Very few applications exist. Seth Levine was kind enough to send me an invite. I wrote a quick application using…

  • Idea: Picket Fence Project

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    I’m thinking about starting an open source project, based on a need I see. I’m working on fleshing out the idea a little bit more, and recruiting some local PHP developers I know to help me. I don’t have time for this, but who does? One of the great things about developing third-party applications on…

  • WidgetDevCamp Presentation

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    Sorry for the week delay… hard to post when you’re in the middle of a mountain (literally). WidgetDevCamp was awesome, thanks to everyone, especially Peter Corbett and Justin Thorp. Here are my slides: | View | Upload your own I gave a presentation about Facebook development, and afterwards they asked to actually see an application…

  • Speaking at WidgetDevCamp

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    I’ll be at WidgetDevCamp this weekend. I’ve planned to talk about developing Facebook applications and how they “work”, with a particular spin on developing widgets. I may also be collaborating with one or two other people on some other topics – we’ll see how that plays out. I’ll post slides after. If you are there,…

  • Reaching My Google Goal

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    I’m now #2 on Google for “zvi”. I can make it.

  • Google Might Want To Recrawl This…

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    Since Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, everything you are viewing is merely reflects a moment in time. You can come back a day later and it’ll be different. While I was doing some searching for the previous blog post, I came across this little gem for the wikipedia entry on Intrapreneurship. Click here to…

  • The Creativity Sinkhole

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    I’m a technical person, a hacker. I happen to also be a pretty good designer, at the same time. While they both are weaved together so often, they often form a bizarre dichotomy. Spending a good chunk of my high school and college years learning to be a pretty programmer/scientist, I was taught from the…