Twitter Desktop Application Devs: Please, Please, PLEASE Use OAuth!
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…
StackOverflow 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…
Querying 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…
The 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…
Ordering 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,…
(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…
Google’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,…
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…
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 –…
Bad 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…
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…
An 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…
Apple: 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.
Another…