Coder’s Eye

I’m sitting in a panel “Social Design Strategies” at South by Southwest Interactive. What a privilege and a pleasure to be here. I can’t believe I’ve never attended this before.
So far the best panel by far was “Art of Speed”, with people talking about how to build successful, profitable companies very quickly. The strongest speaker […]

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This morning, I started playing a great new online game, Weewar. which reminds me of old-school “empire” from my Amiga 800 days.

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This is just a quick post to confirm that Django does indeed work perfectly on Rimuhosting with very little effort required to set up. It is fast, it connected to my Mysql db without a peep of a complaint, and it is making me a happy developer.
Setup details
I’m using Rimu’s “MiroVPS3″ plan. It […]

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I’m decided to use Rimuhosting as my new VPS provider. In my last post, I gave a comparison table for the VPS providers that made my short list.
I really spent a long while reading and researching my choices. Please keep in mind that my priorities are almost certainly not yours. For me, […]

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Web Design From Scratch has a nice, well illustrated article on Current Style in Web Design.
Of course, I don’t want to advocate always running with the herd, but in this case I’d argue that it isn’t so much the herd, but more of a pack. OK, so that isn’t such a great metaphor. […]

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With the resurgence of interest in hobby electronics, I thought my readers might enjoy looking at the details of a simple project I did with cheap EBay-acquired parts. This was a fairly straightforward scrolling LED ascii display.
Goal
A simple-to-use Simstick display, capable of showing a reasonable subset of ASCII, utilizing cheap 15seg displays.
15 Seg Display
I […]

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I have a prediction for Google’s soon-to-be-released service GBuy that I haven’t read anywhere else. I think they may incidentally take out PayPal, but it will only be a pleasant (for them) side-effect of thier real goal. I just don’t think that goal is big enough for Google.
They want the holy grail.
They want […]

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