For Apple and Google, it's a Battle of the Address Books
We use Macs at my house because Mobile Me keeps the family address book in sync.
We use Macs at my house because Mobile Me keeps the family address book in sync.
Call me a news snob. I subscribe to The Economist. I read The Guardian’s RSS feed. I don’t have a TV (well, not one that can receive a signal anymore) On the road, I tend to tiptoe around the USA Todays that lurk outside my hotel room door.
What’s a multi-modal application? One that does phone, web, and perhaps Twitter, etc. One example is TwitterVoteReport, a Rails application that collected reports of waiting time at the polls for the 2008 US election. Produced in 3 weeks by Dave Troy. Input came from telephone, Twitter, SMS.
FriendFeed provides a super API for getting access to posts and doing things like creating likes or comments. Those that don’t require a login, search or display of posts, can be done in JavaScript.
So I’ve redesigned. It was time: there’s just so much purple a fellow can take. The new el-studio.com brings you all sorts of good stuff:
At the office, we use FriendFeed for sharing and discussing links. It’s great for that. There’s a bookmark that lets you share links and images with a click. And we use groups to keep discussions (somewhat) on-topic – especially for our top-secret internal discussions.
@febbraro and I presented our work hosting Drupal on Amazon AWS at Drupalcon last night. Thanks to everybody who could make it. Slides below for download.
At NTEN, the nonprofit tech conference, last year I met a developer who was really exited. One of the vendors on the floor was giving away Pentium 3 processors, and he had a box that could use an extra boost.
Git is a great (and fashionable) source control management program. GitHub takes the pain out of hosting Git for a group – for both open-source and private projects. How to best use them together? The Way to Happiness has these 4 steps: