There are some things — buying your first home (check), getting married (check), having babies (no check) — that seem like you’re never ready for. Those things are always blocked by some other thing in the horizon that you want to wait for before taking the big leap. Determining when you want to get [...]
Entries from September 2007
September 22, 2007
Lifestreaming using Yahoo! Pipes
Some of you might have noticed that I recently added a What I’m up to feature on my blog. While I’m not normally a frequent blogger (I actually consider that a feature of this blog), I am pretty active elsewhere on the internet. So I thought it would be cool to create an [...]
September 15, 2007
Del.icio.us Bookmarks, For 2007-09-14
For Friday, September 14 2007 –
raganwald: We have lost control of the apparatus
"A miserable, groveling future where our applications work for the users instead of the users working for our applications, but it’s our future."
Tag(s): programming
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September 13, 2007
A Spreadsheet for the Web
No, I don’t mean a web-based version of Excel, but an application that does for live web data what the spreadsheet did for static cell data. This type of application is commonly referred to as the mashup editor, which there are a few of out there, but are more like the “IDE for the [...]
September 4, 2007
Taming Beast: How to Extend Beast using Plugins
If you’re building a Ruby on Rails application and are in need of some forums functionality, you’ve most likely have looked into Beast. However, Beast is very limited in functionality (which I actually think is a good thing), so you might find yourself needing to extend Beast to do the things you want.
Fortunately, Beast [...]
September 4, 2007
Del.icio.us Bookmarks, For 2007-09-03
For Monday, September 3 2007 –
Seth’s Blog: Labor Day
"It’s the people having difficult conversations, inventing remarkable products, and pushing the envelope (and, perhaps, still going home at 5 PM) who are building a recession-proof future for themselves."
Tag(s): business career
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September 3, 2007
New Blog Design
I finally took the time yesterday to roll out a new blog design, as well as upgrade to the latest and greatest version of WordPress. The theme is derived from Derek Powazek’s DePo Clean theme, which I chose for its clean and minimalist design. The new theme also gave me the opportunity to highlight some [...]
September 2, 2007
Del.icio.us Bookmarks, For 2007-09-01
For Saturday, September 1 2007 –
Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: Are people like lab rats? Using reward schedules to drive engagement
"How do you think about your site as a series of action/responses that span over time, not a collection of features?"
Tag(s): webdesign rewards
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September 26, 2007
Running Intense Debate on My Blog
I was lucky in enough to get invited into the closed Intense Debate a few weeks ago, and after a stumble here and there I was able to get the ID plugin installed and working on this blog. Now all new comments be going to be handled by Intense Debate instead of WordPress.
In case [...]
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