I received a couple of spam txts which really pissed me off. How did I get these? Who the hell put my number in a database? If I had more time, I’d raise hell and sue these bastards. I called AT&T and they told me to forward the txt messages to 7726. The system then [...][...]
Archive for November, 2010
November 25th, 2010 - 8:14 AM § in Lessons
Custom Page Routing in WordPress
WordPress is an excellent platform, however if you want to customize the site to do more than categories and tags it can be a little confusing. We know from SEO best practices that it is important to have proper URL structure. An easy way is to also use the URL to identify class and method. [...][...]
November 20th, 2010 - 4:12 PM § in Culture
A map beyond the reach of Google
Finally, a map that Google probably can’t put into its search engine. A Scratch and Sniff map![...]
November 17th, 2010 - 3:56 PM § in Web
What’s that google project?
I remember a few weeks back I was reading about a new google product that magically added predictive type ahead to any form field. I’m not exactly sure how it does this magic but I wanted to try it out on a personal project. I had no memory what it was called so began my [...][...]
November 16th, 2010 - 11:30 AM § in Culture
Coworking
Lately coworking has been all the rage in NYC. Years ago I had a loft in Chelsea and every weekend my roommate Mike Hudack would get together with his friends at the loft and work on a business idea that eventually became Blip.TV There are several coworking groups and spaces in New York. Recently NY[...]
November 14th, 2010 - 7:55 PM § in Culture
Cloud City Coffee
They were playing the Smoking Popes and there was ample seating! What more to ask for aside from awesome coffee. This photo was taken with my cell phone – definitely not as sharp as I’d like.[...]
November 12th, 2010 - 5:40 PM § in Web
Google refine
A couple of months ago I had import some data from an Excel spreadsheet into a system I built for a client. The table contained 60,000 rows of information on colleges and universities. That posed two separate problems: 1) How to best export from Excel into a usable format 2) What to do with the [...[...]
November 12th, 2010 - 1:27 PM § in Culture
Gas Works Park
Living in a city highlights what I love about nature more than I thought it would.[...]
November 10th, 2010 - 12:09 PM § in Lessons
Anatomy of a Firefox Plugin
Rather than write another cryptic guide on how to write Firefox extensions, this will serve as a high level overview that will help you understand its basic mechanics.[...]