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Make obvious software, not simple software
Brian Oberkirch has been on a bit of a blitz of great posts about social networking today (and I'm not just saying that because he picked up on bragster supporting hCard import yesterday). The o...
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hCards come to bragster.com
Having mentioned I wanted to implement proper hCard support on bragster.com, the opportunity arose much sooner than expected. Having played with the mofo Ruby gem over a weekend, it became obvio...
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Note to self: backup website before running anything that might delete stuff
Yeah, so I just lost almost every file in my web root. I'm not quite sure whether it was me or a script I ran, but everything under the web root for this site (luckily bar the wp-content directory)...
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Fundamentos Web: Social Network Portability
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99 bottles of beer in LOLCode
Via Labnotes, we get to 99 bottles of beer in LOLCode. Awesome.
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Catching up
As I can't waste my free time on my Xbox for the foreseeable future, I might as well catch up on some stuff I should've written about recently... Goodbye Gottabet, hello bragster A couple of week...
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Oh noes!
My Xbox 360 has the Terminal Three Red Flashing Lights of Doom. I now get to wait at least three weeks for it to be repaired under warranty, potentially five. Fun :(
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PHP better than Ruby (on Rails)?
Not quite but Derek Sivers, an early proponent of switching to Rails for large-scale websites, has written a post on his O'Reilly blog about why he just gave up on 2 years' work in Rails on his CD ...
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OAuth 1st draft released
I'm a bit late on this, but the first draft of the OAuth spec has been published. OAuth is (very roughly) an OpenID equivalent for applications - it lets a 'consumer' application (the standard e...
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Amazon, I'm impressed
Amazon just did a great thing - they surpassed my expectations of their customer service. Unless you live under the proverbial rock (or just aren't much of a geek), you'll be aware that there's ...