I’m not sure who decided that the delete button would make a great back button in a web browser but they need to have their keyboard license revoked. After filling out a lengthy online form today I messed up some text and thinking that the text field had focus I pressed delete since that’s how…
Category: internet
It’s Your Head Not Your Butt That Matters
I’ve been writing code all day, again. Luckily I enjoy writing software. There are moments when I and the computer don’t get along. On those days I consider becoming a garbage man or maybe a bulldozer driver. Just keep me off the bull dozer on the days I don’t agree with my code. Anyway I’ve…
Teachers Without Borders
During the day and lately most of the night I work as a Fellow for Teachers Without Borders at Utah State University. (funded by Cisco). What I actually do bores most people and causes my wife to roll her eyes and tune out anytime someone asks what I do. It’s a long story and involves…
Scalr – Scalable Hosting Framework for Amazon Web Services
Amazon’s web services business has sparked a number of business opportunities. Using EC2 and S3 is not especially easy for a beginner, but scalable web architectures aren’t a place for the weak hearted geek. Enter Scalr. This is an open source project meant to make building a scalable, fault tolerant system on Amazon’s services easier….
A Few More Thoughts On Morph Exchange
I am working on a quick Facebook application for a company called Flat World Knowledge. Basically I have 4 days to build the application – it has to be done by Tuesday. Because of the simplicity of deployment on Morph Exchange I decided to deploy the application on their platform. I don’t have time to…
PicLens on ThePlanCollection.com
David Wiley pointed me to PicLens a few days ago. It is fun way to view online images. Immediately I saw the potential use for viewing house plans. We already have data feeds in RSS and Atom setup all over the site so I figured it wouldn’t be hard to integrate the service into ThePlanCollection.com….
Morph Exchange Review
I recently wrote about Cloud Computing. Alain Benedict from Morph Exchange told me that I neglected to add his company to the list. I said I would check it out. He said he would hold me to it. Last night I spent a little quality with Morph and now have a few impressions to share….
Elastic Cloud Computing
One of the most difficult tasks when putting up a new site is picking the right host. Moving hosts later on is terribly difficult so choosing the correct hosting company is as important as selecting a business partner. I’ve collected about 30 hosting companies in my delicious bookmarks. Some are specific to a platform others…
The Internet Currency
A long time ago people figured out that if you used coins for trading instead of chickens you could build up a complex economy. The coins usually consisted of something precious themselves. Not to long ago society moved towards a more abstract notion of currency and found it was easier to produce dollars out of…
Automatically Geotag Photos
I know that adding GPS to cameras will add cost to the unit but it seems like the perfect marriage. With the GPS data embedded inside the exif data you won’t have to tag your vacation with ‘Yellowstone National Park’. Instead, your photos can show up on a Google map or be set for auto…