January 2011
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San Antonio Zoo Trip →
December 2010
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November 2010
2 posts
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TweetCongress.org
Check out TweetCongress.org to see what your representatives are saying this election day. #govote #election
October 2010
2 posts
The Changelog: How to Fund your Open Source... →
thechangelog:
Ok, let’s face it. The last thing you think about when starting an open source project is funding or raising money … or do you? In the past we’ve talked with many developers working on Open Source projects like, Appcelerator, featured in (Episode 0.0.8) and their suite of Titanium products, DocumentCloud
September 2010
4 posts
Mozilla Phone?! →
Just a concept, but I hope this becomes a reality in the near future.
Happy Birthday Rome! →
Today is my nephew’s FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!
Have a good one Rome.
Charles DeMar gives business advice. →
August 2010
4 posts
HTML5 feat. Arcade Fire →
Video director Chris Milk created an interactive video experience using HTML5, JavaScript + Canvas and Google’s API Tools.
Who Needs A Mouse? →
What's Happening at Tekpub: Free TekPub this... →
It’s my birthday on Friday and in the grand tradition of Hobbits I want to give a gift on my birthday instead of asking for a gift. So I am happy to announce that TekPub will be 100% free all day Friday, you will be able to stream any and all episodes as long as you have an account (accounts are…
July 2010
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HTML to QR Code
Libraries and organizations have recently began to utilize Quick Response (QR) Codes in a number of ways.
Displaying bibliographic data
Hardlinks to news/info/ad pages
Contact information
With Google’s Chart API, and more specifically their QR Codes Feature, it’s easy to generate QR Codes populated with existing HTML content via JavaScript.
In order to generate a QR code using...
April 2010
2 posts
http://xkcd.com/724/ →
I really need to get new music on my ipod. The only song I didn’t skip this morning was Europe’s “The Final Countdown!”
March 2010
7 posts
Currently on indie103.1 is a history/listening of Irish-Mexican music. I think they’re replaying an NPR program. http://bit.ly/97nyxM
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Garden Day 0.1: Frames
Square Foot Garden Frames
I built these frames with 4’ long 2”x8” boards. Then dug out the grass and weeds around the designated plot areas, laid the frames out and stabilized them by packing the dug up grass, dirt and weeds around each frame.
We put up a small fence to try to keep the dogs out of that side of the yard… hopefully it holds.
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Garden: Day 0
Some time ago Aissa and I decided to someday have a vegetable garden in our bare backyard. So after a year of researching (procrastinating) we finally got the ball rolling by sowing seeds indoors in cell based green house kits (pictured). Here is a breakdown of what we’ll be growing.
A. Peppers
Jalapenos
Carnival Bell Peppers (red, yellow, green)
Banana Peppers
B. Tomatoes
Cherry
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RT @timbray: Amusing that on Google Docs, the “save” icon is a diskette.
#MyTop5MacApps TextMate, Cyberduck, Adium, Chrome, Terminal
February 2010
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My New Mac Mini
I’ll be using my new Mac Mini specifically for web development work and not much else…
Okay, maybe for surfing the net and downloading new music with this monstrous 500 GB hard drive!
First things first, software setup.
GUI
TextMate - Text Editor
Billings - Project mgmt, time keeping, invoice system, etc…
Terminal
Homebrew - Beer themed packaging system! Similar...
January 2010
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Github Page
After quite a bit of digging around github, I came across github pages. Here’s github’s definition of it’s pages:
The GitHub Pages feature allows you to publish content to the web by simply pushing content to one of your GitHub hosted repositories.
I think the ability to easily push and pull your page from anywhere is pretty amazing.
I am currently working on a page that...