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Proofing Print Documents From Amazon S3

Jan 26, 2011 · 1 min read

I am making my way through each major cloud storage provider and building demos that pull PDF files from the provider and proofs the file before printing with Mimeo. I have put together a demo...

Making an Amazon S3 Bucket Public

Jan 26, 2011 · 1 min read

@audreywatters -I don't know how to manage my bucket policies cc @kinlane

Proofing Print Documents From Scribd

Jan 25, 2011 · 1 min read

I recently created a couple of working examples using Scribd API and the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API: Pulling a PDF Using Scribd API and PHP Read more →

Google Cloud Print for Mobile Docs

Jan 24, 2011 · 1 min read

kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 Google has launched a BETA program of the Google Cloud Print for mobile documents and Gmail for mobile. Google Cloud Print for mobile allows you to print any document from your smartphone. You can open a document in Googl...

Vertically Scaling Our Amazon EC2 World

Jan 22, 2011 · 1 min read

The Era of Distributed Self-Publishing

Jan 22, 2011 · 2 min read

Its interesting to watch self-publishing move mainstream and gain more acceptance. The conversation seems to be moving from, Is self-publishing a viable option? to Self-publishing is the way to go!.kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 Services like Lulu.com and Amazon self ...

Programming with PDFs

Jan 20, 2011 · 2 min read

When it comes to developing for Print applications you need to be able to programmatically manipulate images. Currently with Mimeo, ultimately everything needs to be in a PDF format before it gets sent to the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print

Future of Facebook Platform is HTML5, CSS and JavaScript

Jan 20, 2011 · 2 min read

Facebook is jumping on the HTML5 bandwagon and supporting it within their developers community. They are counting on HTML5 helping developers operate across web, desktop and mobile devices. They are proposing that all you would need to build Facebook...

Benefits of Transparency

Jan 20, 2011 · 2 min read

One of the aspects of my current job that I enjoy, is the transparent nature of my role. My job is to generate attention for Mimeo and the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. Let me give you an example. In various roles I've had at companies as lead developer, director of technology, or just a developer I spend a lot of time researching n...

Programming with Images Using ImageMagick

Jan 19, 2011 · 1 min read

ImageMagick is open source Apache 2.0 project that allows you to programmaticaly create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in over 100 formats: GIF JPEG PDF

Instagram Photo Book [Idea]

Jan 19, 2011 · 2 min read

This is another post in my API Ideas series, I'm posting all my ideas for applications that could be built using the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. Instagr.am a popular Photo sharing IPhone applications has ...

Infographic Poster Marketplace [API Ideas]

Jan 19, 2011 · 2 min read

This is another post in my API Ideas series, I'm posting all my ideas for applications that could be built using the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. Infographics are becoming a c...

Building My API Community with Elance

Jan 19, 2011 · 2 min read

I'm building the API area for the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API currently. When it is ready, I will need developers. I will need developers to write code samples, working on internal projects and be available to work on partner projects. I can't wait to build momentum and attract developers. I need dekinlane-productions2 <...

github Repositories for Your API Ideas

Jan 18, 2011 · 1 min read

I'm still working on the deployment of the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API area. In the mean time I am preparing a lot of content to publish when its ready. I am noticing that code samples are common elements across my blog post, application directory and even some of my print ideas. Some code samples stand on their own, but most are int...

Facebook Responds to Data Concerns

Jan 18, 2011 · 1 min read

Last week Facebook expanded the information available to external websites and applications to include profile address and mobile number. Ummm....Not Cool. Today they responded with: Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this...

Information Curation with My Google Reader

Jan 15, 2011 · 2 min read

I have a central keyword list that I use as a reference on a daily basis. I track these keywords across many tools from Google Reader, Google Webmaster, Read more →

JQuery Powered Flipbook for Previewing Print Files

Jan 12, 2011 · 1 min read

On my hunt for killer scripts and tools to go with with my Cloud Print API, I came across a way cool JQuery Flipbook script over at codecanyon. Read more →

Documents as Cloud Printing Objects

Jan 12, 2011 · 1 min read

I know very little about the Print industry. As I'm learning I find myself applying my programming and IT background to everything. Currently I'm prototyping a Cloud Print platform that provides 2 step commercial Read more →

Proofing a Scribd PDF Using Mimeo Connect

Jan 11, 2011 · 2 min read

Now the PDF we pulled from Scribd is proofed. With the Product ID returned from the Mimeo Proof Service we can get the details of the proof. We need to make a second call to the Proof Service and Get the Proof. $root_url = "connect.sandbox.mimeo.com/2010/09/"; $user_name = "[user name]"; $password = "[user password]"; $rest = new MimeoRESTclient($root_url,$user_name,$password)...

My First Open Source Github Repository

Jan 11, 2011 · 1 min read

I have checked out and downloaded code from plenty of github repositories. I've even help manage a couple of private repositories for clients. I have never actually shared an open source repository before. A virgin of sorts. I posted the Read more →

Pulling a PDF Using Scribd API and PHP

Jan 10, 2011 · 1 min read

This call returns an XML response containing relevant file information: <rsp stat="ok"> <download_link>http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/2kjfqelznknvkv5.pdf?t=1284562355 </download_link> <title> The Future of Reading and Publishing is Social </title> <page_count>4</page_count> <height>792</...

Image Management in the Cloud

Jan 10, 2011 · 2 min read

I am taking some time and writing down my image management strategy to share with Audrey. I have a specific process and set of tools I use to manage images I use across my Kin Lane Blog, API Evangelist Blog and my Twitter, Linked...

Visualize Big Data with BigQuery and Google Spreadsheets

Jan 9, 2011 · 1 min read

Being the big data geek I am, I'm pretty excited that Google has integrated BigQuery with Google Apps Script and Google Spreadsheets. This means you can take power of BigQuery for storing and querying of very large data sets and combine them using Google Apps Scripts with any of your Google Spreadsheets. With a simple query Google...

Quora Exposes JSON API

Jan 7, 2011 · 1 min read

Quora has exposed a JSON-based data API that allows users to access data about a currently logged-in user. To request particular fields about the currently logged-in user, you can add fields to a query string and append to http://api.quora.com/api/logged_in_user. kinlane-prkinlane-productions2 Currently supported fields include:

Music of the Stock Market

Jan 3, 2011 · 1 min read

I am intrigued of any patterns or art you can extract from Big Data. I have been fascinated by the art of fractal mathematics since my 7th grade social studies teacher introduced me to them in 1984. Her boyfriend w...