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• stack overflow

  2010 February 04 in computer programming

  Over the last month, I’ve been learning a lot of things and stuff by participating at stackoverflow.com daily, and I am slowly growing obsessed with it. The ‘help/learn/repeat’ cycle that they have is pretty well optimized for my learning style. I’ve even had decent luck recommending it to other people; more and more of my [...]

• Authlogic and the iPhone

  2010 January 27 in computer programming

  So, I’ve based a couple of apps on a combination of authlogic and the iPhone Objective Resource package, and when I mentioned this on the relevant lists I got a bunch of people asking me questions, so I thought I’d post about what I did generally. There are a couple of steps, most of which [...]

• ebooks

  2010 January 27 in general

  So, I’m currently making ebooks for people, and it’s come up enough that I thought I should make it generally known that I’m doing so. I’ve been doing this more or less since the mid-90s when I was working part time at a scientific press (which is how I got involved in early HTML standards [...]

• iPhone app beta users sought

  2009 November 29 in computer programming, infosci, location-based

  Hey folks, I’ve been working on a couple iPhone applications recently, and things are at the point where I could use a couple beta users. If you’re interested in any of these, let me know by commenting or emailing me — email temp200911@corprew.org. You can also use the contact page at corprew.org. I’m looking for [...]

• soa / drupal

  2009 November 04 in briefnotes

  Drupal has a module for doing SOA that is about to be available in αlpha release.

• more from the wordpress toolbox

  2009 November 02 in general

  This is a trivial something that seems to come up staggeringly often when translating design to implementation in word press sites, so I thought I’d post it up here so I don’t have to recreate from scratch next time I need it. So, you have a long, carefully contrived, SEO-friendly title for your pages (or [...]

• Classy

  2009 October 07 in general

  I’m developing an online class about categorizing web content, mostly aimed at users of content management systems. If you’re interested in being part of the trial audience for this class, comment or contact me. Ideally, this will be a series of short videos each of which will be on some particular topic.

• Rubber Duck Regatta @ Cal Anderson Park @ 7pm

  2009 July 30 in general

  My bag Originally uploaded by Corprew / Zeitgeist Examine the contents of this bag. Rubber Duck Regatta in Cal Anderson Park’s fountain tonight at 7pm. I’ll hold another next week as well. There are a variety of duck vendors in town for those who wish to ‘prepare.’ Archie McPhee’s come to mind. Check your bathtub [...]

• federated search party (tl; dr)

  2009 July 23 in computer programming, infosci

  I’m making this post to elucidate some conversations I had late night last night, none of this is particularly rocket science or necessarily even model rocket science. One hilarious thing that keeps coming up is federating search — combining search results from multiple datastores, which is a moderately hard problem to come up with a [...]

• celiaq — the last while

  2009 July 01 in computer programming

  So, for the last while I’ve been working on celiaq.com. It’s a social network for people with Celiac disease and other forms of Gluten Intolerance. It’s designed around the resources that that community has trouble getting reliable information about on the internet, and I think that it’s coming along pretty well. Right now, it’s looking [...]