A friend doesn’t “get twitter”. He thinks it’s a place for teenagers to pass the time swapping pictures, which it might be, but there is a lot more potential. http://twitter.com/towerbridge is a good example. An engineer has programmed the bridge to tweet it’s opening 5 minutes before and again once it has been closed again. [...]
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Ever wondered how to tell if you are hiring a competent programmer? In the following video Ron Burk discusses the Psychology of Incompetence in which he leaves you with no illusions. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization
Recent dissapointment over changes to the facebook API meant that a long term development for traffic exchange scripts had to be altered. To compensate Ventrino is going to release a number of twitter applications. If you haven’t tried already their is a fun application at www.buytweeters.com Ventrino owners are now beta testing a method for [...]
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There are probably as many stories about cabbies as there are cabbies with stories about “You’ll never guess who I had in the back of the cab” stories. On a recent visit I was on fifth street, about 20 minutes walk from the Guggenheim. I prefer walking, even in the rain, but time was short [...]
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While it might look like one of his previous designs it is what the owner wanted. It in fact uses many new images and very different template code. Inside there are brand new icons and apparently Digital Dave’s own sister makes a guest appearance. Dave is a drop out science student who began life in [...]
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Ever had trouble explaining to technical support exactly what the problem is? A screen dump will often help get your message across. Here’s a few ways to do that: 1. CamStudio: Taking a screen recording is not difficult or expensive anymore. And sometimes a video recording of the screen is the only way to get [...]
Jake says he’s not looking for success, just to be of value.
Then don’t do this!
