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del.icio.us help and new features

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Awesome! Check out the new help page on del.icio.us. They also added easy and configurable tagrolls and linkrolls (so you can easily have your links or tags on your blog, etc.). Check mine out. del.icio.us ru|3z!

Kareem Mayan – Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate Yup, pretty much sums it up. Great post.

p4 obliterate -y

Friday, November 11th, 2005

What a great command name. And, tonight is the first time I’ve used it in a place where things could actually go wrong if I mistyped something. — Majorly wrong. p4 obliterate is the command in Perforce to completely remove a source tree — it removes all traces of its existence. It would certainly be […]

First Spam Comment

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Sweet, I just got my first spam comment. Someone was trying to sell their company’s product as an alternative to another product I recommended. I feel like my blog is all grown up! (well, at least able to get into bars now, not all grown up) I don’t have nearly enough readers to make commenting […]

What I need as a corporate Software Developer

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

After the events and frustrations of the day and comparing that with the ideal . . . Creating Passionate Users . . . here’s a list of what I need as a developer (as of this moment): 1. Basics/Mandatory The basic tools required to get the job done. One machine, Licenses for the software I […]

Google Local for Mobile

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Awesome! It’s like having a GPS Nav system on my phone! Fantastic use of Java on a mobile device. http://google.com/glm This is a great mobile application that I look forward to using quite a bit in the future. Also, my other google mobile fav: Google SMS

New Blog Strategy

Monday, September 19th, 2005

I’m moving from roller@jroller onto a personal install of WordPress.

Content Mandate

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

My content mandate – If I give you my content, I expect in return:  access to my content via RSS/Atom/XML/API/webDAV/etc — something/anything in addition to the simple html view of my content. By “you” I mean any website, webservice or web-enabled repository. Luckily for me, most of the sites that I give content to already […]

Joel on Software – Hitting the High Notes

Monday, July 25th, 2005

I've been reading Joel On Software for a while now, and loving it.  However, I enjoyed this post more than usual and I just can't quell the urge to blog about it.  It's just a great essay getting to the point of passion and the importance of design and quality in software development.  Plus, it […]

KoL RuLz!

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

So, my latest addiction (don't worry flickr, there's room for multiple addictions in my online life) is Kingdom of Loathing. It's a very simple html implementation of an adventure game (An Adventurer is You!).  All the images are stick figures and the basic gameplay is click here, then click here, then click here — proving […]