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New Facebook App: Jobs
June 15, 2007 – 11:17 pm
Check out this new Facebook app I wrote, Jobs.
http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=2ef3f8cc5320897be6432956cc6213dc
You can search jobs, search your friends companies for jobs, and much more!
It was a trip working with the Facebook API. Very powerful. Kudos to Facebook for opening up their platform!!
Shout out to Space Chimp.
LifeHacker - solving my web pet peeves one peeve at a time. Paste multiple lines into input boxes
June 8, 2007 – 2:25 pm
This is awesome. I am always having to play mouse hockey to get multiple lines pasted into a browser text box.This solves the problem.Thank you LifeHacker.
Tribeca Film Festival & American Express: Pathetic
April 7, 2007 – 3:17 pm
I was all set this morning to order my tickets to Tribeca Film Festival, since I am a “CARDMEMBER” and that supposedly would give me some special preference.
Well, it looks Tribeca’s old PHP/LAMP servers were not up to the task. I couldn’t order and just got errors. Tried calling in, all circuits busy. [...]
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Educarchile turns on Google Apps for Education for Chile
March 22, 2007 – 4:57 pm
Ltech was mentioned in the Google Enterprise Blog for our work on a major Apps integration we just completed.
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Educarchile turns on Google Apps for Education for Chile
I believe that integrations like this prove that Google Apps is a serious competitor to other enterprise collaboration platforms like Exchange and Notes. Educarchile [...]
RubyQuest 2007: howto build a wiki in 20 minutes - it really worked
March 19, 2007 – 12:56 am
This tutorial was great. I learned pretty much all the basics. I would have been nice to learn more about why things are structured in certain ways in Ruby, but I solved the major test case for myself - build a postgresql ruby on rails app.Thanks to whomever wrote it.Technorati Tags: ruby
RubyQuest 2007: Driving myself crazy so you don’t have to. Tutorial #1 Running Ruby and postgreSQL on Windows
March 18, 2007 – 9:30 pm
Ok folks, this drove me absolutely insane for a few days until I figured it out.I want to learn Ruby. You can read my previous posts to see why. I want to use postgreSQL, not mySql. I want to do it on Windows and then eventually deploy on Linux.So - I made it pretty far [...]
Ok, I setup Ubuntu Server, now what? Install Ruby and PostgresSQL
March 17, 2007 – 2:26 pm
At this point I think it will serve me best to describe what I actually hope to accomplish with this Linux test I am running. I could happily stay in the la-la land of Windows and .NET development. So what do I hope to achieve?Technically:
Get a Linux server running with Ruby on Rails and [...]
Installing Ubuntu on VMware Player
March 16, 2007 – 8:46 pm
I had to dig the depths of the internet to find this great tutorial: http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/ekeller00/ubuntu/2a_UbuntuInWindows_VMware_e.htmlThanks, Eric Keller.Now I will blog about my Ubuntu experience once I can get it installed on VMware. I was able to install it straight-up on my old Thinkpad A20p, but I realized that I didn’t want to carry around a [...]
Scaling high-performance websites. How do YOU do it?
March 14, 2007 – 10:42 pm
Great article on how MySpace managed their growth and scaling issues: http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00.aspI am trying to manage a similar scale-up, not quite at the scale as MySpace, but with its own unique challenges. So far I’ve found the resources on the web for serious web high-performance architecture are lacking, but I often find gems like the [...]
