I attended the Boulder.me locals night event last night. Despite crashing any group (that had predominantly closed toe shoes) as if I were “speed dating”, I didn’t get to meet many companies, but the few I did impressed me far more in person than I’d taken from their website. They routinely blamed their website for [...]
I’m tired of WildObs users struggling with (or objecting to) Flickr. WildObs is not a photos site, it is about encounters data (what, where, when & who) but some encounters are just richer with a photo. I followed the Flickr directions, created an “import from Flickr” rails application (I’ll post code if folks are interested) yet [...]
With the help of a friend I created a module to allow an instance of the PHP forum package Phorum to integrate with an instance of the Rails restful_authentication database. Basically it perform authentication against the user table that the restful_authentication plugin produces, and then synchronizes that user record with a Phorum user record allow [...]
Friday I took a day off from computers to participate in a controlled burn. I learned a lot, I worked hard, and I had some fun with some good people. That is me, in the middle of this crew. Folks talk about firefighters liking to burn things, liking fire (perhaps a little too much.) I [...]
I still hear marketeer type folks saying “go to blogs and post a comment, linking back to your site”. You’ll get traffic and improve your SEO. Anybody with a half-way-modern blogging package has implemented that urls in comments get hypertexted with rel=”nofollow” which zaps any SEO value. I don’t know wether to mention this to all the folks manually [...]
The elk seems to be avoiding some weather down at the bottom of the canyon. Enjoy them, and the colors.
Today I noticed that WildObs Google maps stopped showing controls, and that informational windows stopped popping. Having spent a couple of hours tinkering (removing this, removing that, questioning everything) & generally pulling my hair out. I am starting to wonder if YM4R and Google are not playing nicely today. I can see the google maps [...]
Recently I did a search for “restful_authentication and open id” (looking for if others had done a better job of integrating the two than I had) and came upon “StackOverflow” in the the search results. Having thoroughly respected item #1 on Joel’s StackOverflow introduction, in short — get answers don’t get rambling discussions — I [...]
I’ve was pleased to get my hands on Mozilla Lab’s Geode, their plug-in implementation of Geolocation API. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. What disappoints me is the API is just about numbers, not names. They do have latitude, longitude (and altitude, which is great) but no placename/placemark. Raw numbers are [...]
Last night I took Brad Feld’s advice and attended an ATLAS seminar on Social Networking: Using Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. The speaker, Matt Galligan (aka IndieKid) of SocialThing was a smart guy, clearly into his topic/on top of his topic, was entertainingly nervous & seemingly enjoying beginning public speaking. What struck me was: His examples [...]