Yahoo! to fix GeoPlanet JSON API today

07/02/2008 10:50 pm by Aral Balkan in General
As I posted last week, a backwards-incompatible API change to the JSON version of Yahoo!'s excellent GeoPlanet API caused the new teaser site for the Singularity web conference to fail. Today, I got an email from Eddie Babcock from the Y! Geo team informing me that this was due to a regression and that they will [...]

The Love/Hate Relationship with Twitter

07/02/2008 06:44 pm in General
I love Twitter. Some people don’t get it, but once you get hooked, you can’t live without it. I hate Twitter. It’s down half the time. You get me hooked and then, just when I need a fix, you’re gone. I just got onto the private beta of TweetDeck, installed it, gave it my username and password, [...]

Saving Twitter in Three Easy Steps

06/30/2008 05:13 pm by Peter Elst in General
I don’t think I’m alone in seeing Twitter’s service deteriorate to the point where euthanasia seems like the only humane option. Without any obvious intimate knowledge of how the service is architected, these are my three easy steps to hunt and kill the fail whale.   1. Stop accepting new registrations In the current situation I can’t [...]

On online security and password policies

06/27/2008 12:41 pm by Aral Balkan in General
Writing the post on del.icio.us's password policy got me thinking about passwords and online security again. Having a strong password policy such as "passwords must be longer than six characters and must contain a number or a symbol and a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters" is great in theory but let's take a moment to [...]

Two ways to change your business’s name on PayPal…

06/27/2008 11:55 am by Aral Balkan in General
First way: Call their premium 0870 support number and pay £??? to be told that they will send you an email with instructions on the procedure which involves sending them a fax then proceed to wait several days for said email without success. Second way: Sign in to your PayPal account, go to the Contact Us - My [...]

DSMidiWifi on Leopard. Anyone get it to work?

06/25/2008 03:51 pm in General
I’ve been trying to play with some of the cool new homebrew music apps on the Nintendo DS. Check the page below for a sampling: http://remaincalm.org/index.php/ds-music-apps However, for the life of me, I have been unable to get DSMidiWifi to connect to my Mac Book Pro, or Mac Book. I’ve followed the instructions here to the letter, and [...]

SVN commit failed error

06/25/2008 10:48 am by Aral Balkan in General
After running through a lot of merges last night (I was incrementally going through several changesets to see where I'd introduced a regression) and then updating to the HEAD revision and fixing the bug, I got the following error message when trying to commit: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Your file or directory 'paypal.py' is probably [...]

stu.pid.us password usability is.su.es

06/25/2008 10:09 am by Aral Balkan in General
Hmm, I need to log in again to del.icio.us after clearing out my passwords. I wonder why my regular passwords don't work... oh well, time to start the forgotten password process. Cool, got the email and now I'm on the site -- this should be simple: I enter a weak password -- this isn't too important an [...]

Adobe Feeds Firefox Search Plugin

06/22/2008 09:28 pm by Peter Elst in General
Now that the old MXNA is back up and has been revamped as Adobe Feeds I had a good excuse to create a Firefox search plugin for it. If you’re a Firefox user you can install the plugin by clicking on the button below. Enjoy!     addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peterelst.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F06%2F22%2Fadobe-feeds-firefox-search-plugin%2F'; addthis_title [...]

Reverting to a previous revision with Subversion

06/22/2008 12:36 pm by Aral Balkan in General
You would think that reverting to a previous version of your application would be one of the key use cases for a version control system like Subversion and that it would be trivial to do. When I was first starting out with Subversion, I thought there would be a revert command that took a revision as [...]

Winning at the shell game: iPython on Google App Engine

06/22/2008 10:26 am by Aral Balkan in General
iPython is an awesome extended Python shell that gives you goodies like tab completion for instances, history tracing (so you can easily copy interactive sessions as doctests), etc. And, if you install it, your Django project on Google App Engine will automatically start using it instead of the regular python shell when you use ./manage.py [...]

List of Physics Games

06/18/2008 09:05 am in General
Ran across this list of physics games via Coding Horror: http://www.fun-motion.com/list-of-physics-games/

MOO digs my MOOsaic!

06/16/2008 03:46 pm by Aral Balkan in General
Denise just featured my MOOsaic on the MOO blog. Yay!

Update: Please star Issue 404 to bring OpenID to Google App Engine

06/13/2008 10:43 am by Aral Balkan in General
Issue 404 is the key to getting OpenID working on Google App Engine but currently it only has 10 stars. Please star Issue 404 if you want OpenID support on Google App Engine. (Please add a star, _not_ a "me too" comment which will get emailed to everyone who has starred the issue and may cause [...]

Google IO session videos are online

06/13/2008 10:16 am by Aral Balkan in General
Google has released videos from the Google IO conference. (For some strange reason, you need to log in with your Google account to something called Google Sites in order to see the page.)

Flashbelt 2008 is done.

06/13/2008 08:34 am by all manner of distractions in General
I am getting really lazy with my picture taking! This is the only decent photo (of the total four that I took) and it still sucks. Blurry and poorly cropped and poorly lit. Sigh. I will fix this slackery soon, I promise. Dave put on a fantastic conference. This was my first Flashbelt and it was [...]

I’m back!

06/10/2008 05:05 pm in General
If you’ve emailed me or otherwise tried to contact me in the last couple weeks, and thought I was ignoring you, I wasn’t. Was in rural Japan with very intermittent connectivity. I’m back now and will start digging through the backlogged communication. More info on the trip itself here: http://keith.bit-101.com/?page_id=48

Upcoming Flex 3.1 Feature: Marshall Plan

06/10/2008 07:22 am by Matt Chotin in General
I'm sure based on the activity you've seen in the Flex 3 branch you'd think not much is going on, however you'd actually be wrong. Alex has been leading an effort on a feature we call the Marshall Plan. This...

Upcoming Flex 3.1 Feature: Marshall Plan

06/10/2008 07:22 am by Matt Chotin in General
I'm sure based on the activity you've seen in the Flex 3 branch you'd think not much is going on, however you'd actually be wrong. Alex has been leading an effort on a feature we call the Marshall Plan. This...

AIR Distribution Kit

06/10/2008 03:33 am by Danny Patterson in General
Tomorrow at FlashBelt I’ll be giving a presentation on Installation and Distribution Strategies in AIR. Since AIR applications are built using web technologies like JavaScript and ActionScript, many of the AIR users aren’t used to thinking about the installation and distribution strategies that desktop applications require. My presentation will cover a couple of [...]

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