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Reviewing "The Noticer" by Andy Andrews 28 Apr 2009 | 04:10 pm
Michael Hyatt is the CEO of Thomas Nelson, a giant Christian publishing house. He’s been tweeting about a soon-to-be released book called <a href="The Noticer. I’ve never done this before, but Hyatt’s...
Feeling Nostalgic… And The Next Five Years 8 Apr 2009 | 08:41 am
I’m feeling nostalgic today, my last day at MarkMonitor. My good friend Blake Hayward and I founded CollectiveTrust five years ago. MarkMonitor acquired “us” about three years ago. That chapter closes...
Graphing Total Daily Tweets 19 Mar 2009 | 01:53 am
Last year I started tracking the total number of tweets posted to Twitter every day. I wrote a Ruby script that uses the Twitter API to post a new tweet to a private Twitter account and log the ID num...
Data Store Shards in Google App Engine? 12 Jul 2008 | 03:47 pm
The picture on the right shows the unique id numbers of some of the shortened URLs in the ur.ly database, sorted by created date. Those unique ids are automatically generated by Google App Engine’s da...
ur.ly – Dang Short Urls Powered by Google App Engine 11 Jul 2008 | 01:35 am
Google App Engine let’s you build web apps that run on Google’s infrastructure. What’s the best way to get familiar with a new framework like this? Build something — preferably something simple and us...
2008 Pasadena Marathon Course Posted 21 Jun 2008 | 05:00 am
The Pasadena Marathon posted its course map today. After running the Long Beach, Big Sur and Los Angeles marathons, there is something really cool about running a course that is never more than 5 or 6...
Volunteer Pumpkin 19 Jun 2008 | 02:23 am
I’m a composting geek. We compost all of our non-meat table scraps, coffee grounds, and some yard waste and then dig it into our garden soil each year as a natural fertilizer. It’s always fun to see w...
Triple Buttons with Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 4 Apr 2008 | 02:35 am
Just upgraded to Firefox 3.0 beta 5… do you think I have enough back/forward buttons? Revert!
Find Similar Links on LinkRiver 3 Apr 2008 | 02:34 pm
I’ve been noodling on this feature for a while — how can I find “more links like this one” in LinkRiver. Putting on my machine learning hat, I contemplated link-to-link co-visitation schemes, semantic...
What Powers the Aggregators? 1 Apr 2008 | 02:30 am
All lifestream and link-sharing aggregators use an RSS/ATOM parser to help power their service. I built LinkRiver using Ruby on Rails and would have preferred to use a parser built in Ruby. However, ...
