Monthly Archives: March 2008

Simple Web services are so much fun

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Karl

Track your Domino’s pizza delivery with a python script. Or try this nice one liner in your favorite Unix shell: curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep ‘^X-(F|B)’ | cut -d \- -f 2 for a Futurama quote from Slashdot.

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Around My Web Of Co-Workers and Ex-Co-Workers

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Karl

Rajiv Pant, my former manager at Knight Ridder, shares some thoughts about the Future of Content Management for News Media for Web sites. The apartment of Jesse, a co-worker at CIM, was robbed. He posted pictures of the culprit and … Continue reading →

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Sing A Song

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Karl

The night before Mom’s funeral, we were driving around Fox Chase, making arrangements, and Emma, from her car seat, sung. “Sing, sing a sonnnnng” One of the many songs Richelle and me sing to her, that it would be this … Continue reading →

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“crippled by their own process”

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Karl

Coding Horor: “Is Eeyore Designing Your Software?”: Here’s my honest question: does open source software need all that process to be successful? Isn’t the radical lack of process baggage in open source software development not a weakness, but in fact … Continue reading →

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Easy target: knocking the press for the housing crisis

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Karl

Dan Gillmor is right to knock the press in its coverage of the housing bubble. It didn’t do its job. But I thought we were in the age of the crowd having more information than the experts? In the age … Continue reading →

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Shelley Powers: “If you do it right, you get Techcrunch. If you do it wrong, there’s the ditch”

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Karl

What Shelley Powers describes in the below linked piece is the current economy that encourages folks like Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears to do whatever it takes to get publicity. David Shenk’s “Data Smog” put it like this … Continue reading →

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Design Patterns Aren’t (That) Evil

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Karl

I agree with much of Jeff Atwood’s writing when it comes to programming and development. I’d say on any given subject 90% to damn near 100% (congrats to him on his new adventure). But I think his post on design … Continue reading →

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Happy Easter

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Karl

Emma is waking up at her grandparents right now and Richelle and me are just getting out of bed, making calls, and getting ready for the day. It’s a tradition we started last year, that I’m looking forward to as … Continue reading →

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REST and Unix Pipes

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Karl

http://www.linfo.org/pipe.html http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1644 http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/articles/shuffling_atom_.html http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/pipes-and-filters-for-the-inte.html

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Hope you had a great St. Patrick’s Day

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Karl

Even though you wouldn’t know it by my name – I’m Irish. It’s something I was was dimly aware of as a teenager, and something I’ve come to embrace as I’ve gotten older and realized my last name isn’t that … Continue reading →

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