Zvi Band

Category: Tech

  • BarcampDC2

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    BarcampDC2 is coming up in September/October – are you ready? We’re just wrapping up a planning meeting for BarcampDC2, here at Murky Coffee. We are looking for sponsors and such, and soon opening it up to people to register. If you have an idea or are interested in sponsoring, check out the wiki here! BarcampDC…

  • Facebook Day

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    The usual frenzy and buzz surrounding Facebook will peak today as Facebook has their second developers conference. Mike Arrington thinks he know whats going to be launched. Facebook payments platform Facebook Connect Three tier application system We’ll have to see what happens, but…. The Facebook payments platform will only work is if it is ridiculously…

  • Rebuilding ZviBand.com Part I: The Feed

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    In order to better establish a web presence for myself, I am rebuilding my own website. I have big ideas for this, displaying my writings, past and present, my interests, my friends, my work, and also as an living technical showcase for my abilities. One feature I wanted to have is a display of whatever…

  • 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…

  • Did I build one of the first microblogging tools?

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    A little over two years ago, in the summer between graduating and starting a “real job” I spent a good amount of time at the gym, brushing up on my various web skills, and building cool apps. I didn’t necessarily want to get rich off them, they were more exercises in taking my ideas and…

  • 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…

  • The Facebook Flea Market, or Why Diversification is the Only Free Lunch

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    Facebook applications are awesome – and a good number of developers and agencies have committed to themselves full time to developing applications for themselves and for clients. We all see huge potential for being able to interact with users on such a personal level, so easily. Relying on other services is a big component of…

  • The Last Mile

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    This is a bit of a stream of thought, so bear with me. One of the topics that really interests me is the last mile. We have electronic devices that store and deal with pretty much any type of information. Phone numbers, addresses, messages, people, etc. Fridges that keep track of our food, even. But…

  • 2008 DC Idiotarod

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    I can’t believe I missed it!