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Google Cloud Print - Update

kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 Now that you have a Google Cloud Printer registered with the Google Cloud Print (GCP) registry, you will need to keep the status of that printer updated. After authenticating using Read more →
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Google Cloud Print - Register

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Google Cloud Print - List

In addition to registering a Google Cloud Printer you may want to list what cloud printers you have registered with a specific Google Account. After authenticating using Read more →
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Google Cloud Print - Client Login

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Print To Google Cloud Print Without a Mobile Device

I have been doing a lot of work with Google Cloud Print lately. It is an amazing platfor, however one complaint I have is that it currently supports printing only ...
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Flipbook Preview for PDF Print Files

When I am building a user interface for any print application I want to allow users to preview their PDF after upload. The Mimeo Proofing Service is what I use. Proofing takes a PDF and generates a small and large image for each page of the PDF, and adds to your Mimeo account. First I pull the PDF, and send it to the Mimeo Proofing Service, and it returns XM...
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Web Clipboard for Google Chrome

I just installed the Google Web Clipboard in my Google Chrome browser. It allows me to store text and HTML content and access it across any Google Apps. I like the concept of having a single cloud based clip-board. I use
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Proofing Print Documents From Box.net

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.
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Build Multi-Tenant Apps with Twilio

Twilio now has subaccounts. You can now build multi-tenant web applications that use the Twilio Voice or SMS web services. Now you can build a single app and create individual "suba...
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Big Data Opportunities in Emerging Markets

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Moment - Scheduled Jobs API

A big part of the web applications I build, is usually some sort of jobs management. Most functionality is triggered based upon user generated events. However there are many times where I need to schedule something as a job. I run most of my web applications on a Windows 2008 server, this is the platform I'm moskinlane-productions2o I use the task scheduler built into the platform. Read more →
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IPad as a Curation Tool

Google Reader is the primary application I use for information curation. I currently have 572 subscriptions that I stay on top of daily. I just cleaned this list of Read more →
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Introduction to Logic in Computing Science

This course is based on the following philosophical principle: All computing scientists must be able to employ rigorous reasoning to justifytheir claims about thebehaviorof the programs they produce. Thus the goal of this course is to introduce you to the logical and mathematical tools forreasoning about algorithms. Being able to e?ectively use these tools makes the di?erencebetween being a programming hack and a computing scientist. ...
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Github Repository for DMCA Takedowns

You can tell we are in a seriously volatile time, and the Internet is the center of it. With revolutions in Middle East, country-wide Intern...
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Printing with Google Cloud Print and XMPP

The potential of decentralized technologies on the Internet is far greater than their counterparts. One such technology is XMPP, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol or XMPP, is an open technology for real-time communication, which you find in instant messaging, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, and content syndication applications. Read more →
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Proofing Print Documents From Amazon S3

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...
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Making an Amazon S3 Bucket Public

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Proofing Print Documents From Scribd

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 →
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Google Cloud Print for Mobile Docs

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 Google Do...
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Vertically Scaling Our Amazon EC2 World

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The Era of Distributed Self-Publishing

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 ...
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Programming with PDFs

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
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Future of Facebook Platform is HTML5, CSS and JavaScript

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...
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Benefits of Transparency

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...
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Programming with Images Using ImageMagick

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