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Yearly Archives: 2005
Getting old: Band battles are for kids
Jason writes about Battle of the Bands and how he and Goaty (the wife) studies the kids. Goaty had a good time identifying cliques and social heirarchies in the various fast-moving packs. I had a good time watching the performers pull out moves they had obviously perfected in front of basement mirrors – guitars were …
Skype creates extra stuff, viral marketing
Some of the genius of Skype is their very open attitude to their corporate story. People like telling it, and it is “viral-enabled” already in itself. My Dad can tell it to me. But when they also create very easy-to-use buttons and widgets that people can add to their websites, and put a great deal …
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Mapping fun for your blog
Now testing FeedMap, another geo-location + blogs application on the web. Via [Daen](http://www.daen.dk/)’s sidebar.
More useful JS: Prototype revisited
OK, for those of you watching from the sidelines, remember when we talked about the Prototype framework, and I said it could be done slicker? I am now correcting those little errors. First of all, I was not using enough parts of Prototype, and so I was doing unnecessary stuff, and also, I was leaving …
Drupal + CakePHP = Drake
Tutorial for using Drupal and CakePHP together, written by Felix Geisendörfer. A match made in heaven?
DHH handles trollish comments well
Yeah, [Ruby on Rails is 1.0](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2005/12/13/rails-1-0-party-like-its-one-oh-oh) Someone comments on the project’s website running PHP: > How’s this deployment of PHP based “RoR website†related to believing in your own technology, I ask? And the project lead answers: > We’re running PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby on this machine. Picking and choosing for whatever task is …
Plazes hiring x 2
[Plazes](http://www.plazes.com/), the geolocation service, are hiring now. [A C++/Qt developer](http://blog.plazes.com/?p=87) and a [Linux box man](http://blog.plazes.com/?p=89). Are they really making money? Who gave them VC?
Prototype grows on me
Usually, these days I add a comment to a Delicious link, building on the mountain of metadata of the commons, but this calls for more verbose plappering: Prototype Meets Ruby: A Look at Enumerable, Array and Hash from the [Encytemedia blog](http://encytemedia.com/blog/), written by Justin Palmer. The [Prototype](http://prototype.conio.net/) Javascript framework implements a lot of the “language …
Jason, the humour man: “A Miguel Morayta Film”
This is a service announcement: Jason has a new Prawnwarp, it became a WordPress. Happy for him. The link above goes to his great Mexican Movie Generator.