I was pretty much done with Dianne Feinstein after she sat on the sidelines during the 2010 healthcare debate, but I was pretty alarmed to hear that both she and our other senator, Barbara Boxer, are co-sponsors of PIPA (the senate version of SOPA that would give big businesses the right to shut down web [...]
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Both California Senators Support SOPA/PIPA
January 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Politics, Web/Tech
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TV Rebroadcaster ivi.tv Shut Down by Injunction
February 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Business, TV, Web/Tech
I didn’t see any tech blogger coverage of this, then I remembered I had a dusty old blog of my own, so I’ll do a quick summary here. ivi.tv is a terrific television rebroadcasting product that enables you to watch local stations from various US markets on your computer using a downloadable client application that [...]
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Tokbox: A Platform for Adding Live Video Chat to Your Web Site
November 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Platforms, Web/Tech, Work
This evening TokBox launched a new platform that enables Web developers to embed live video conferencing into their Web sites. This is an incredibly exciting product and I’m sure it’s something that a lot of sites are going to take advantage of.
TokBox provides all the challenging bits to make this happen; all a web developer [...]
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CodeLesson ♥ Etsy
November 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · CodeLesson, Web/Tech, Work
Today we announced A Gentle Introduction to the Etsy API. This course is an important milestone for CodeLesson for two reasons:
It’s the first CodeLesson course produced by someone other than us. The curriculum and instructor will be provided by Etsy; we’re handling the details of getting students registered, hosting the learning software, setting up shell [...]
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What’s Happening on CodeLesson
October 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · CodeLesson, Web/Tech, Work
Our mighty mighty online learning site, CodeLesson, continues to astound and amaze us as it slowly consumes my entire career forevermore. Here’s what’s going on with the site today:
My PHP course is proceeding apace. We are in week six of the course and no one’s brain has exploded yet. (At the same time I’m also [...]
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Upcoming CodeLesson Courses
October 10th, 2010 · No Comments · CodeLesson, Web/Tech, Work
It’s hard to believe it’s been less than six weeks since we’ve launched CodeLesson. The response to the site has been terrific and we’re having some enlightening conversations with students, instructors and others about what they want to see from the site.
My CodeLesson PHP course is in progress, and it’s going really well. It’s a [...]
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The Great Yahoo! Developer Experiment is Over
August 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Programming, Web/Tech, Yahoo
From Yahoo! comes word that a number of popular developer products, including the MyBlogLog APIs as well as Maps and Local APIs, are soon to be shut down.
The announcement is as tone-deaf as it is disingenuous; it starts by saying that Yahoo’s “commitment is unwavering” and then goes on to vaguely enumerate the number of [...]
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My Contact Info
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Web/Tech
How cool is this, I just discovered the coolness that is qrcodes and stuck my contact info in one:
If you have a mobile phone with a barcode scanning app you can use it to read this right off the screen and it’ll plop all my contact info into your contacts. Super cool! I just tested [...]
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Updated VPS Hosting Price Comparison (June 2010)
June 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Virtualization, Web/Tech
Update: There’s a more recent version of the data below at http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/projects/hosting.
Linode announced that they’re increasing the amount of RAM by a lot (like 40%) on all of their virtual server products today. I’ve been watching pricing for a few of these services for about a year now and I’ve made a few posts comparing [...]
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Soon You People Will Be Calling Me Master
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · School, Web/Tech
Today I got word that I’ve been formally admitted to the Master’s program in Computer Science at Colorado State University.
This program leads to the Master of Computer Science degree, which is a terminal, professional degree (as opposed to a research-oriented degree). Think of what I’m doing as the geek analog to an MBA.
I’ve actually been [...]
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