Recently on Hacker News it has become common place to bash PHP. There was an article posted to the site with a title of “At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up?” which started a slew of flame bait. I took it upon myself to post this morsel of a...
Topics: code, hackernews, PHP, Tech

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Yesterday I launched a little tool for twitter using Ruby on Rails, Capistrano (with Deprec), and OAuth called GameTweet. This is the first Rails application I’ve deployed since I started playing with the stack a few weeks ago. The idea for...
Topics: gametweet, oauth, ruby, twitter, Web 2.0

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Well, last night I did something rather crazy which involved jumping up from a game of Counter-Strike and running to the living room. Unfortunately, I took the headset cord with me. I literally ripped the cord in half at the Y connector. I attempted a...
Topics: Tech

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I finally got around to building a new desktop PC. I’ve been working from my MacBook Pro for the last year or two, and its perfect for getting things done and its very speedy. Unfortunately, it simply cannot handle any of my hard-core games. So, in.
Topics: computer, i7, motherboard, Tech, video card

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What is it?Last week I had some down time and manage to crank out a relatively basic mashup of the iTunes Libary XML file and Pandora’s favourites feed. Essentially my code reads in the iTunes XML file and converts it into a readable form using...
Topics: .NET, asp.net, VB.NET, Web 2.0

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