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Politics, balancing rocks, and a blogger confessional
“It’s been two weeks since my last weekly roundup.” That feels like a confession….(and maybe a misnomer)…I’ll have to get over my own hangups about the kind of blogger I should be, and just go with the flow of what works for me. It’s been a busy couple weeks with (a) people visiting, and (b) [...]
Overcoming user entrenchment is getting harder and harder
I’ve been looking at some new “hot” sites out there recently and to be honest haven’t been that sold. There is a lot of stuff that seems to be trying to solve the same problems we already have tools for, but in just a slightly different way.
I’m sorry, but the bottom line for me is [...]
Weekly review of what’s caught my eye
Here’s the first post of what will hopefully be a weekly roundup of things that interest me. It’s inspired by an attempt to blog more to achieve some mental clarity.
So, here’s what’s been on my mind this week, in loose order of importance:
Data Structures, nice ways to work with trees in SQL
I’ve been mentally wrangling [...]
Dipping my toes in the XMPP/Jabber stream
I’ve been thinking about integration of Zazengo with IM for a while now, but it has yet to become high enough priority on our roadmap for me to dive into it during the day.
But the night is for those experiments, right? I just dipped my toes in IM over ruby a bit tonight and wanted [...]
Strange JSON issue in Contacts gem
I’ve been using the contacts gem for a while now. It lets you pass in a username/password for a yahoo/gmail/hotmail or plaxo account, and after some under the hood lookups, it returns you a list of that user’s contacts. Pretty useful for things like an “invite your friends” system.
But the other day, when I tried [...]
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