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The Best Filler Ever Written
If you’re building a website and don’t have filler text for “About” pages or product descriptions, don’t use lorem ipsum. Instead, write the most overblown ad copy you can imagine. Don’t just lavish...
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XmlHttpThrottleRequest
Today in #luni we ranted a bit about developers. (I’m “Malaprop” in the exchange.) <mewyn> i’m gonna throttle one of our developers <mewyn> we had to reboot a server because his crappy...
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Think Outside the Euclidean Universe
You’ve probably all seen the brain-teaser that’s a perennial favorite with uncreative managers the world over. (Why an exercise in creative thinking is really only loved by incredibly boring people is...
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GoJobby Launches – Web 2.0 Job Site
I found GoJobby via Ajaxian and filled out a profile to check it out. It’s a neat site, but I’ve got a few concerns/suggestions and a big warning. Tags you’ve applied to yourself still appear in the...
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NDAs: Fear and Shame
The two fundamental reasons NDAs exist are fear and shame, and that’s only halfway a bad thing. You want a little healthy fear in your life, it keeps you from trying to pet those cute little bear...
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Pre-Cambrian House
I was poking around reddit and followed a link to CambrianCode.com, an all-Flash (ugh!) puzzle game. There’s a few of these “guess how to get to next level” games online and they all just annoy me....
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TECHcocktail
Despite its odd capitalization, I’ll be attending TECHcocktail, a technology/business mixer on July 6, 2006. I found out about it via Jon Wolter, who mentioned it at last night’s ChiPy meeting and at...
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Cambrian House Party
Cambrian House, the startup I snuck a peek at and got a hat-tip from has opened for a public beta test. They’re sort of an open-source business incubator: folks submit ideas, the best of which become...
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Leaving Hostway
Earlier today I gave my two weeks’ notice to Hostway. I’ve worked at Hostway since April 2005 as a maintenence coder on RegistryPro and, since last month, part-time on the web frontend of an internal...
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Good Timing
This morning, at about 4:30 AM, I awoke and just knew the Right Way to rebuild RegistryPro to be completely reliable, even more compact, and provide meaningful reporting. It would take less than two...
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WashingtonPost.com
Today I added code to the Washington Post’s 2007 Presidential Field to show campaign events by type. I’ve joined Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive as a web developer (Python with Django) and this...
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Post: Politics Glossary
Today the first project I built launched, the Politics Glossary. It’s a small site cataloging political jargon and all the writing is done by the Politics department. Actually, one of the best things...
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Post: The Moby Quotient
On Friday I put up an app to let folks calculate and share the Moby Quotient of songs — a measurement of how much an artist sold out by allowing their work to be used in a commercial. The app is a...
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Don’t Play Hurt
I love the c2 wiki. At least once a year I’ll dive in for a day or two and read a swath through its accumulated wisdom. As I learn and experience colors my perspective, I always find new things. One...
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Washington Post Update
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about what I’ve been up to at the Washington Post, so let me run down the apps I’ve worked on since September 2007 in roughly linear order. Lots of these apps...
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