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2 months agoWelcome to TechReevu!
I’m pleased to announce TechReevu, a new venture from my friends at the Morontown Group. They are creating a tech blog, which they have asked me to contribute to. As I take it, the blog isn’t…
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2 months agoStackOverflow Trilogy Stickers Have Arrived
The League of Justice (i.e. the StackOverflow trilogy) stickers arrived today in the mail! YAY YAY YAY! Somehow or other, there were two StackOverflow stickers, along with a ServerFault and SuperUser…
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2 months agoQuerying the StackOverflow Data Dump Online with StatOverflow
Every month, StackOverflow, the brilliant and completely open question and answer site for programmers, releases a Creative-Commons licensed dump of their database. You can download this huge dump…
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2 months agoThe iPhone Configuration Utility 2.0 – a Great Diagnostic Tool
I was surfing around on SuperUser today, and found a mention to a tool from Apple that I hadn’t heard of before. It’s called the iPhone Configuration Utility, which allows you to examine logs from…
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3 months agoOrdering StackOverflow Trilogy Stickers!
On Tuesday, the awesome guys at Stack Overflow finally gave us addicted users a chance to receive some trilogy stickers! A few weeks ago, they received their order of 40,000 StackOverflow,…
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3 months ago(Almost) Destroying Explorer.exe, AGAIN
Today, somehow or other, I stumbled upon the distributed processing app called GIGRIB. Developed by Pingdom, “Pingdom GIGRIB is a unique, distributed website monitoring service. GIGRIB users can add…
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3 months agoGoogle’s 11th Birthday As a Company is Tomorrow
Tomorrow, the 4th of September, marks the 11th year passed since the founding of the Google corporation, one of the most influential technology companies in the world. In 1998 on this very day,…
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3 months agoCome on, already
Look, Apple, you’ve gone too far (why else are many of my blog posts about you?). And the FCC is there to kick your face in. Just accept the Google Voice app already. You know you’re going to be…
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4 months agoWatch Out, Apple
The anti-trust community is all over Google, these days, says an article in the August 2009 issue of Wired Magazine. Fred Vogelstein tells readers that the search giant is the new Microsoft –…
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4 months agoBad Design: Sensors Gone Mad [Rant]
Automatic sinks, hand driers, soap dispensers, and more may seem like a dream come true, but this is not always the case. The construction of such a contraption is very simple – you need to create…
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4 months agoThe Twitpocalypse Returns
In my last post, I explained what truly went on in the Twitpocalypse, which dealt with tweet IDs passing the limits of the 32-bit signed integer (from -2,147,483,647 to +2,147,483,647), which is the…
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4 months agoAn Explanation of the Averted Twitpocalypse
Numerous friends have asked me about this whole Twitpocalypse thing, as they just don’t get it. “What’s this whole deal with signed integers?”, they ask. Well I’m here to clear that up, as I do…
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4 months agoApple: No More Tethering on AT&T, No More Pre Syncing
Apple recently released new versions of the iPhone and iTunes SDK. The main purpose of these updates is not to add or improve new features, but to remove some major holes in their software.
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4 months agoMicrosoft Faculty Summit 2009 (10th Anniversary)
This year, I attended the 2-day Microsoft Faculty Summit 2009 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. This was my first time ever visiting such an awesome company as Microsoft, and I was very amazed…
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4 months agoNaBloPoMo 2009
Hello everyone! A few days ago, I read about NaBloPoMo on the WordPress blog, and guess what? I’m interested! Well, NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month (inspired by NaNoWriMo, or…
