Category Archives: frustration
I love Chrome Cookies
OK, I know it’s been way too long since I’ve posted and this isn’t intended as a heartfelt explanation, merely a reference for those in need. I’ve been hacking up a storm and shoehorning my way around problems and this … Continue reading
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Where are the filters for Google Reader?
If I can create filters for GMail, to push notes to certain folders or automatically star things, then why can’t I create similar rules for my RSS feeds? RSS has quickly become at least as important to me as email, … Continue reading
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Skinned Programming Paradigms
Here’s a free thought for you. How much of people choice in programming languages is really syntax dependent? For example, I dislike Java (I hate it for other reasons) simply because of the verbosity of ‘System.out.println’ and don’t really understand … Continue reading
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Welcome to the White House State of Confusion
I know it’s easy to sit on the sidelines and poke fun at people trying actually do something. And we’ve been given many reasons to respect the technical proficiency of the recent administration’s IT personnel. However, here’s an example of drop down box, … Continue reading
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Links as Code
John Willis’ “Infrastructure as Code” should be a startling epiphany for anyone who has long neglected process and people in favor of technological solutions. Yet, I hope anyone here doesn’t need convincing about the validity of institutionalizing the collective knowledge … Continue reading
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Who’s Really Testing Chrome?
Just a quick gripe to share with anyone using Chrome. For all of Chrome’s new high performance design, there’s a very simple way to bring your tabbed experience to it’s knees, Print something… In my case it was a 100+ page … Continue reading
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Mashing up the Dashboard
This post is for anyone interested in any of the Government Transparency inituatives. If you’ve been following this topic then you’re probably aware that Vivek Kundra sees a dashboard as a way of accelerating the transparency and transformation of the … Continue reading
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Could a couchdb guru explain this, please?
I’m in the process of trying to build (and benchmarking) a couchdb project and I decided to use some word count & frequency samples as data. Since “word count” and “grep” are the quintessential map/reduce examples I thought this would … Continue reading
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Google’s Unspoken Security Vulnerability
Your personal life, which was once kept secure through email, is now open to the network via RSS. Continue reading
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My least favorite part of JSON…
I love how simple the JSON spec is. I never enjoyed reading through all the XML closures, etc. JSON just feels more programming so you don’t have to shift your brain as much as you do with XML. However, I … Continue reading
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