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Using SendGrid’s Parse API to Email yourself a Trello card 12 Nov 2012 | 02:12 am
This is a placeholder, I’ll add more content shortly. Nutshell: I used a free SendGrid developer account, a free Trello account, and a free Google App Engine account. I added a subdomain to iandougla...
Recruiters: Sass, Slime, Spam and Scorn 7 Oct 2012 | 02:38 am
I got a LinkedIn connection request this morning from a recruiter from Zynga, who said: Technical Recruiter at Zynga – *********@zynga.com or 415-603-**** Dont’; be so negative. And I don’t want to ...
Project Sputnik XPS13: Initial Impressions 5 Sep 2012 | 01:10 am
My XPS13 arrived today. While I hadn’t initially applied to Dell’s beta group for Project Sputnik, I’ve been pretty eager about it to the point of wanting to purchase a full-price XPS13 on which to te...
I made a promise to LinkedIn about recruiter spam 13 Jun 2012 | 04:18 pm
I get spammed regularly and frequently by Ticketmaster / Live Nation via LinkedIn by someone named Natalie Kuperman. I’ve asked her to stop, but I’m guessing that TM/LN have paid for some super premiu...
name.com — shout out back at’cha 3 May 2012 | 04:48 am
During scrum this morning, my phone kept buzzing that I’d been mentioned on Twitter. Over and over. Imagine my surprise when a simple exchange last night — asking if anyone had an affiliate link I co...
Why I backed Pebble at Kickstarter, along with 30,000+ others 19 Apr 2012 | 06:52 am
I saw someone post about the Pebble Kickstarter project (I can’t remember if I saw it on Twitter or Google+) and without even watching the promo video, I immediately backed the project, my first Kicks...
Android Security wakes the sleeping blogger 17 Apr 2012 | 04:35 am
Can't believe it's been so many months since I blogged last. Even quitting Facebook (link 1, link 2) wasn't enough to blog, but this one deserves a post. Update, April 19, 2012: It seems that Google...
In retrospect, is Verizon the best carrier to launch the Galaxy Nexus? 8 Dec 2011 | 11:10 am
Since the Nexus One in early 2010, I’ve been an Adroid advocate, especially when it came to Google’s “flagship” products of a pure Android experience. The simplicity of it was very appealing for those...
Search and Replace in Bash script 29 Jul 2011 | 09:24 am
Had a colleague ask me how to do in-line regular expression matching for a Bash shell script. Since Bash v3 only offers a regex matching check and not the full s/foo/bar/ syntax, I offered to look int...
Fixing NO_PUBKEY errors from Apt 14 Jul 2011 | 05:42 am
I've been ignoring a problem updating Diodon (a great clipboard manager) whenever Ubuntu's daily Update Manager tries to alert me of new software updates. I finally opened a shell prompt, ran ...
