Category Archives: Personal

instantFeeds 1.0.6

Now with support for feeds protected by HTTP Basic Authentication and feeds that are served by a web server that uses an invalid certificate. Download the latest version or check out the source code.

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deliciousposter 1.02 released and fun with html entities

I fixed a bug in deliciousposter that’s probably been wrecking havoc on anyone reading this site using an aggregator for a long time. You’re probably a nerd if you’re reading this post anyway, so I’ll bore you with the details. … Continue reading

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Books: Better Off

A couple of quotes from the book “Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology” that I thought were important enough to note here: … tricks like these remove much of the onus from manual labor and add to the sense … Continue reading

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Books, the last 12 months

It’s been almost exactly a year since I last pointed to my reading list, turns out I’ve read about 30 books in the last 12 months, highlighted by seven in the month of July (mom-in-law got me a gift certificate … Continue reading

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instantFeeds 1.0.4

I rolled out a new version of instantFeeds tonight, you can read all about the new features / bug fixes here. The big feature is that now all notifications will include the title, link and summary of every item in … Continue reading

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instantFeeds 1.0.3

New version of instantFeeds: version 1.0.3. It includes a two new features: you can now turn off your notifications by sending the command ‘off’ (kind of like an out of office feature) and turn them back on by sending the … Continue reading

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Kid Pictures

My brother moved in with us last weekend and my mom came and stayed with us for a couple days to help him get moved in. Since I bought her a Flickr Pro membership for Christmas, I can point to … Continue reading

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instantFeeds 1.0.2

I uploaded a new version of instantFeeds tonight: version 1.0.2 includes a couple new features (including feed auto-discovery using HTML Parser) and some minor tweaks / bug fixes. Check out the release notes, the source repository or just skip to … Continue reading

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instantFeeds 1.0.1

I updated the instantFeeds plugin tonight to fix a couple bugs with the postgres and hsqldb installation scripts that the guys on the Ignite Realtime site found. You can download 1.0.1 (again, assuming you have already!) and get the latest … Continue reading

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Five Things

My friend and ex-roommate David tagged me with the five things meme, so here are five things about me you probably don’t know: My parents tell me that the doctor dropped me on the floor when I was born. I … Continue reading

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