Tips to Prevent Identity Theft
About a year ago my account’s office was broken into. The only thing the thieves took were the hard drives from the computers. That is scary for someone like me because the…
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Working on Second Facebook Application
It is top secret, but I am working on another Facebook application. This time I am using Ruby On Rails since I don’t have to deal with legacy issues. I’ll be interested to see if…
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Complaning About Perspective
I love NPR. I was listening to it last night on the way home and Will Bowen of Christ Church Unity was on talking about his no complaint for 21 days program and the purple…
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Visited the Tetons
I grew up in southeast Idaho which is in close proximity to Jackson Hole, Wy and Grand Teton National Park. When I was a kid (I am going bald and my back is causing me problems so…
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First Facebook Application is Running
I finally worked out most of the bugs for my first Facebook Application – My House Plans which uses data from my House Plan site. What is cool is that without putting in a lot of…
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Another Social API – I might explode
Just as I finish my Facebook app here comes OpenSocial which is supposed to be an API that works with LinkedIn, Orkut, other Google services and the big recent addition, MySpace…
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Screaming out in Sheer Terror
Happy Halloween
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Just Funny
I am writing code and my wife is singing this to my son, “I’m a little stink pot short and stout when I let it rip it all comes out. I’ll knock you over and you’ll pass out.”
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rFacebook and redirect_to
I have been working with rFacebook to try to get a Facebook application up and running. Right now we are trying to integrate our conference application – 51weeks.com with Facebook…
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Quick Note About rFacebook, Edge Rails, and Sessions.
This problem may not be specific to rFacebook, but when I added acts\_as\_facebook\_user to my user model and then made a call like:
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Olympic Cycling Considering Move to Ogden
There is an article on KSL indicating that USA Olympic cycling might move to Ogden (Utah). Again on Velo news. Given the strong community of cyclists in Utah and the fact that I…
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An MRI is Like a Rock Concert
I had my first chance to lay inside a claustrophobic MRI machine today so that I could celebrate Halloween in style with an authentic skeleton costume. The good news is that I am…
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The Spawn of Satan
My wife’s best friend moved to Kentucky a number of years ago because she married a guy from back there. We lamented that they were so far away because they were fun to hang out…
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No I Won’t Fix Your @!#$!@#$ Computer
I am a software engineer. That means a lot of things. It means I can write code. It means I can talk about servers and argue about what programming languages are best (Check out…
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Facebook as an Authentication System
I have been playing with OpenID for about a year now. It is a very cool, distributed authentication system. The concept is great and I love that I don’t have to create accounts…
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Have 51weeks feedback?
This morning at the Open Education 2007 conference David Wiley announced our new conference application 51weeks. I wrote the code so if you have any feedback or run into problems…
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How to manage 60,000 digital photos
QUICK UPDATE: If you want reliable backups for you photos check out my post on using S3. A friend of mine was surprised that I don’t have a Flickr account. I am try to keep up…
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Edge Rails, OpenID and the Dreaded Sorry, the OpenID verification failed” error
We use Edge Rails in our projects. Call me stupid if you like, I like living on the edge (get it?). This desire to push our luck has bitten us a couple of times, but not in any…
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Flickr as Web 2.0, bla, The Soviets were like Nuke 2.0 way back in the 70s
I watched Dr Strangelove late at night a couple of weeks ago. It is dark humor and a movie in classical Kubrick style. The irony in the movie has so much to teach modern society…
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Why the medical industry sucks
There is no doubt in my mind that the practitioners in the world of medicine really want to help. At least all the doctors and nurses I have run into have been kind and helpful…