Posted by Daniel Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:53:00 GMT
I've created a new blog at: http://turnings.phrasewise.com/. There's a bunch of reasons... but in the meantime, that's where the action is now. I'm still working on the blogroll and stuff... but there you have it. Come play!Posted by Daniel Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:47:00 GMT
Hmmm. When I looked at RSD nearly five years ago, it didn’t seem so bad. In any case, here’s a ticket and a patch to get WordPress to support autodiscovery of AtomPub endpoints.
[Here, here! And the peasants rejoiced! And the reason one (influential) person in the Atom community didn't like RSD wasn't for technical reasons, but because Dave Winer is an acquaintance, and an early supporter of RSD... and he was reviled by some members of that community. Anyway, all these years later, RSD is quietly doing its job, and should be employed for this purpose. That was kinda the point, with no preference for one API over another. Thanks Sam!]Posted by Daniel Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:21:00 GMT
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Posted by Daniel Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:44:00 GMT
Never mind the buy 1 give 1 (a great idea). Don't wait until November when you can directly buy laptops for kids right here: One Laptop Per Child -- XO Giving. I just bought five. (Hit the Donate button).
This is a story about tools and bravery and marketing.
The bravery: When Nicholas Negroponte and his team started this project, they had nothing but obstacles. The status quo of software and hardware and skeptics stood firmly in his way. And he took a lot of grief for the effort. Even when you're doing nothing but good, fear of change is going to cause a lot of people to object.
The marketing: Everything, even laptops for kids, works its way through the innovation diffusion curve. That means that most countries, most organizations and most communities aren't going to adopt this tool for a few years. It doesn't matter if it's perfect... these things take time. Smart marketing embraces the curve and doesn't insist that it must change for this project, right now.
One kid (or five kids) at a time. It's enough. It'll happen.
[I had the same reaction, although I lack the resources to buy so many. I'll do what I can. Maybe I can get the folks at work to buy some and give them away.]Posted by Daniel Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:55:00 GMT
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Steve: As with any great product, there have been several things that make it special — the idea, our product owner, the process, etc. The most important to me though is the Team.
Luke: Ript lets you tear stuff off the web just like you tear something out of a magazine. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Wendy: For the past year, our team at Oxygen has been working on several projects. Most of which are internal, providing tools for the Oh! channel to operate. One of them, Ript, is something completely different.
[I've been working with this team since October of last year on a update of Babynamer.com. In June they asked me back to help build the Ript website. Since then I've joined the group full time, but it is only recently that I got involved with Ript. There's a group blog as well. Like Luke and Wendy suggested check it out. And for those of you who are still wondering what I've been working on for most of the last year... now you know. There's a lot more to this story... coming soo to a blog near you.]Posted by Daniel Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:49:00 GMT
Some of this might be out of date, but the simplest critical path seems to be as follows:Command line stuff looked a bit like this.
For the search engines... the error I was getting (under Mongrel) wasExiting
/Users/daniel/temp/aumeatur/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/servers/mongrel.rb:16: warning: already initialized constant OPTIONS
/Users/daniel/temp/aumeatur/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/servers/mongrel.rb:19: undefined method `options' for []:Array (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
from /Users/daniel/temp/aumeatur/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require'
from /Users/daniel/temp/aumeatur/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
from /Users/daniel/temp/aumeatur/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require'
from /Users/daniel/temp/aumeatur/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:39
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
from script/server:3
Posted by Daniel Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:43:00 GMT
If you work with designers and others on projects and you store all the work artifacts in Subversion (which a lot of folks consider a requirement for safety and agility) have a look at ZigVersion. It is by far, the best Mac client I’ve used. Getting started is painless and common functions are easy and quick.
I did experience a crash ro two with an imported working copy, but that might be something strange in that working copy. We’ll see.
I do wish there was a simplified interface for the truly non-savvy that eliminated some of the choices and options. Something that totally centers around getting the project, and updating it (whether by adding or modifying. Acts which should be transparent to that type of user.) But short of that, this is a nice clean client, and I’ll be testing it with my wife this evening.
Posted by Daniel Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:01:00 GMT
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Posted by Daniel Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:51:00 GMT
At the TED conference, a holy cow technology demo video for Photosynth. Ridiculously awesome technology. Enjoyed the Seadragon underpinning ideas as well. In short, architectural rendering can be generated from a database of source pictures. Something like Notre Dame which is constantly photographed can be stitched together. Just go watch the video. Crazy good stuff.
Today, Dave talks about social cameras which seems to dovetail nicely. I'd love to stitch together event pictures so that you can see the whole instead of just my perspective, including the case he discusses.
Clearly, large searchable photo collections are in incredibly powerful tool, and social ones like flickr will become awesomely powerful tools.
The first thing that leaps to mind are sports events where ten of thousands of photos are taken or historical event recreation. (Imagine the power of this tool applied to a cataclysm such as 9/11?)
When people ask what's the use of all the cycles we have on our desktops I see stuff like this.
Posted by Daniel Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:56:00 GMT
So I’ve been working o my knee and getting stronger every week and all has been good with my riding. All this was leading up to a ride with Seth which I had planned for soonish.
I did the Alpine Approach last week, though I didn’t know I was going to because the folks I rode with called it something else. So while there was some pain, I rode more of 9W and the park than I had ever done before regardless of knee condition, which told me that I was doing good and should keep moving. Plus, I rode again Thursday and was pain free, so I figured things really were progressing.
Jenni planned some climbing for today and I figured what the heck. Oddly enough, the truly killer hill isn’t on the elevation chart she posted (see above) since it isn’t on Long Meadow but on the road we needed to ride to get to there. (The very first lie in cycling is “This is the last hill”.) It wasn’t that bad on the way in, but after all the climbing on Long Meadow it was something on the way back. Of course, I did enjoy the 47MPH downside on the way in… it’s not as fast coming back out.
Anyway, I’m really happy about my progress, and while I broke no speed records going up those climbs… they were mostly pain free and a definite improvement for me fitness-wise and knee-wise. Yay me.
No here’s the ugly part Seth. I’m going to be working full time starting next week until about September is looks like. We’ve waited for a long time to get together, I guess it is going to have to wait just a bit longer. Sorry.
My next task is figuring out how to continue to increase my fitness while working full time. It’ll be a new trick for me for sure. Wish me luck.
As an aside my meds have been cut to 50% in one case and 25% in another. Just another sign of increasing health. Little steps, little steps.
PS: For all those reading along, Seth wouldn’t harm a fly as far as I know, never mind actually do me harm. Just soes ya know, and don’t get the wrong idea about the title.
