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Secure Printing with Google Cloud Print

Mar 13, 2011 · 1 min read

kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 I've been doing a lot of work with the Google Cloud Print API lately. I've built a prototype Read more →

Commercial Cloud Print Queue

Mar 13, 2011 · 1 min read

As I'm working on different cloud printing solutions I am considering the practical use of these technologies in conjunction with Mimeo commercial printing. One area I see a very practical use of cloud printing, is developing a commercial cloud print qu...

Auto Deploy Code from Github

Mar 13, 2011 · 1 min read

I came across a great walk through of how to deploy your code from GitHub automatically. Having managed a large number of web applications derived from various code repositories, I see the value in this. I used to wri...

Rapportive Adds Developer Profiles for Bitbucket, Github, and Stack Overflow

Mar 12, 2011 · 1 min read

Rapportive, a social CRM service has added support for Bitbucket, GitHub, and Stack Overflow. Rapportive adds a social CRM layer to Gmail using ...

Self-Service Application Integration

Mar 9, 2011 · 2 min read

Today is the first birthday of the Google Apps Marketplace, and what better time to talk about the significance of application ecosystems. I would call Read more →

Create a Cloud Printer with Box.net

Mar 9, 2011 · 2 min read

A while back I was playing around with the Box.net API, I wanted to see what services they offered. I created a set of Read more →

Amazon EC2 Adds Change Instance Type and Shutdown Behavior

Mar 9, 2011 · 1 min read

Amazon Web Services just released two pretty significationenhancementsto the Amazon EC2 infrastructure. You can now: Change Instance Type -This means that y...

Wordpress, Drupal, MediaWiki, and Joomla on AWS with JumpBox

Mar 8, 2011 · 1 min read

Amazon Web Services has partnered with JumpBox to deliver a suite of hosted applications using Amazon Web Services. kinlane-productions2 Using AWS and Jumpbox you can launch a:

Cyberduck Adds Windows Version, Azure, and Dropbox

Mar 8, 2011 · 1 min read

Cyberduck, the open source FTP client has made some pretty significant updates including a version for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7. Cyberduck has also added two more cloud storage providers: W...

Mashape Improves API Security and Language Libraries

Mar 7, 2011 · 1 min read

Mashape, the API framework and marketplace service provider has recently released some new features and resources for developers. Additions include new language libraries and plugins: Read more →

Manufacturing: 3D Printing a Nylon Bicycle

Mar 7, 2011 · 1 min read

Engineers in the UK are using 3D printing with a nylon powder to create a really cool, futuristic bicycle. Guided by a comp...

Android Like Web Notifications Toolbar

Mar 6, 2011 · 2 min read

I just had a new idea for a startup. I'm in love with everything about technology startups except actually starting another one myself. So I kind of work the opposite of the rest of Silicon Valley, when I have an idea I just put it out there on the open Internet. I'm reading Read more →

New Google Cloud Print Queue

Mar 5, 2011 · 1 min read

Google launched a slick new Google Cloud Print Queue Manager. It allows you to manager your cloud printers and the print jobs in the queue. kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 Its available at

HP ePrint

Mar 5, 2011 · 1 min read

ePrint is a service from HP that allows printing to select HP printers over the Internet. When an HP web connected printer registers it gets an email address. Since printers receive print jobs by email, this enables printing to any HP web enabled printer that is connected to the Internet. ePrint enables print...

Google Cloud Print

Mar 5, 2011 · 1 min read

Google Cloud Print provides a printing platform that allow printers to be accessed over the Internet by mobile phone, tables and computers. Google Cloud Print enables printing over the Internet to web enabled printers or older printers using a proxy software that users can installed on Windows, and soon Mac and Linux platforms. kinlane-pkinlane-productions2 Cloud Printing is avail...

Google Cloud Print, HP ePrint, and Apple Airprint

Mar 5, 2011 · 3 min read

I've been spending time learning about the three major platform we think about when we hear the term cloud printing. Apple Airprint HP ePrint Google Cloud ...

Apple Airprint

Mar 5, 2011 · 1 min read

Apple AirPrint enables printing on Apple products to HP printers over a wireless network. Airprint enables printing without installing drivers or configuring a printer queue. Apple products that support AirPrint are: iPad (running iOS 4.2 or later) iPod Touch (running iOS 4.2 or later) iPhone (running iOS 4.2 or later) Mac Computers Running Mac OS

Mobile Editing of Google Spreadsheets in 45 Languages

Mar 2, 2011 · 1 min read

Google has enabled many of the same mobile editing capabilities in Google Docs, for Google Spreadsheets. You can now edit Google Spreadsheets in 45 languages on Android, IPhone and IPad devices...

Google Social Network Profile

Mar 2, 2011 · 1 min read

I like my new Google Profile. Its a cleaner, more organized version of its former self. I see the Google Social Network coming together in slow motion around my existing Google...

Use Elance To Developer Your API SDK and Code Samples

Feb 28, 2011 · 1 min read

kinlane-productions2 API code samples and software development kits (SDK) are among the most important tools for getting developers up and running with any API. Providing complete sets of code samples for every area of an API and in as many programming languages as you can is important to a developer's (and an API's) success. With complete sets of code samples in ...

Managing Google Cloud Printers

Feb 28, 2011 · 2 min read

I have been getting a lot of questions from users regarding how to manage their Google Cloud Printers. To help guide users stumbling across my site, there are two types o...

If You Build It(an API), They Will Come

Feb 28, 2011 · 1 min read

One of the goals of any API is to catch the attention of developers and become a tool they depend on and integrate regularly into their applications. If you build an API and release it into the wild -- even if it's high quality -- there are no guarantees the developers will immediately come. Even the big players like Read more →

Google Cloud Print Job Notifications Using XMPP

Feb 28, 2011 · 2 min read

I made it over the last hurdle building my Google Cloud Print Proxy in PHP. I have a prototype for the Google Cloud Print, XMPP Print Job Notification Service. Even though you can pull print jobs via the GCP /fetch interf...

Gmail Loses Email and Reminds Us That...

Feb 28, 2011 · 1 min read

I'm reading all the posts, tweets and streams about Google losing the emails of a whole bunch of Gmail accounts. I see the the cloud computing naysayers stepping up with, "SEE, don't get too dependent on the cloud!" <...

Developer Project History in Real-Time

Feb 28, 2011 · 1 min read

One of my biggest complaints about the concept of a resume is that you only update it when you need a job. If you only update your job or project history when your looking for a job, its going to go through quite a "fabrication" process. It won't represent what happened, how you felt, and all the details of the moment won't...