So I’m a Flash Guy, but here’s my current dilemma.
Currently I have no site of of my own. I used to host JakeFreeberg.com off a machine at home, but that’s just a bad solution. It allowed me to play with WordPress and MovableType installs and learn a few things, I really need to put some […]
In my cursory understanding of both Groovy on Grails and JRuby, it see both are attempting to solve the exact same problem (make programming Java better) - but from 2 different approaches.
Charles and Groovy team, please pardon my simplification:
JRuby: I work in a Java environment but find more enjoyment writing Ruby.
Groovy on Grails: I like […]
This is the first of a new ongoing series here at MNteractive where I sit down with the companies in the Twin Cities’ web community.
To kick it off, I talk with the Refactr team; Ben, Jesse, and Scott, to talk about how they’re building a software consulting company on the agile software development, Groovy […]
First post here, for a longtime reader and sometime coffee-time attender.
My company is hiring.
I’m particularly keen to see the Web Designer position filled by someone with IA and usability interests and skills.
Feel free to contact me privately at peter at peknet.com about my experience at Atomic Learning.
I played around with Pipes and aside from loosely matching iTunes songs with YouTube videos or loosely matching Flickr photos with NY Times articles, I’ve yet to ‘get it’.
The interface itself is pretty - and seemingly powerful and simple. Reminiscent of Microsoft’s Visual Basic or Apple’s Automator. But in the end, Pipes is chartjunk - […]
Ah, clear skies…Universal Health Care…6 weeks vacation…Great looking furniture…Ikea…
As if Scandinavia needed yet another reason why they have it so good. Still, they keep pumping out bullet points on the ‘pros’ column: Norway has just declared iTunes illegal. More specifically, they feel that proprietary DRM is bad for competition. And if DRM isn’t proprietary, there’s […]
Note to self: Review OLPC Human Interface Guidelines
“This UI is quite simply one of the deepest and most interesting redesigns of the desktop user interface ever produced. It makes MacOS look like what it is - boring and unoriginal.” - Mike Hearn
“This site neither supports or endorses Hampsterdance.com. In fact just typing HampsterDance.com, in this authors viewpoint, should automatically have a person banned from internet usage for a year. How can that song even be in my head when I haven’t even heard it in a decade?” - Bill Bradbury
If you’re looking for a way to quickly compare population, unemployment, or say - median household income - check out Social Explorer
Here’s household income based on the 2000 Census - zoomed into the Twin Cities
You a Mac geek? Feel like you should give a bit to charity this season? Do you also feel greedy and want some new toys of your own?
Fulfill both your giving and greedy side by purchasing a MacHeist software bundle. 8 great free applications from independent software developers. And as a bonus, if they raise […]
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