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Real-Time API Updates with XMPP

I'm working on my prototype for a Google cloud printer that runs on a server. To set the stage, I want to get cloud print jobs sent from Google Docs using the
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Protests Dominate News

It makes me hopeful to see the top news stories are protests in Libya, Wisconsin, and China. The world is on fire.
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Spending Priorities with the Federal Budget 2012

Most of the time I feel pretty powerless when it comes to politics in our country. As I see it I have two ways to express myself: Voting Taxes Voting always feels like I'm forced to pick the lesser of two evils. Very rarely do I ever have positi...
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Host Your Entire Website at Amazon S3

Amazon made some more tweaks to Amazon S3 that make it even easier to host your entire static web site at Amazon S3....
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Making E-Commerce Real-Time

I haven't seen much movement forward in the e-commerce / payment services space for a few years now. Granted there are a lot of players in this space, but nothing that has been game changing. Setting up a site for e-commerce has always taken time. Its not a quick process. Paypal has made most of the advances in this space, but it still can take several hours to get up and going with their Paypal basic, and could be days to get up ...
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Visualize Big Data with Google Public Data Explorer

Google launched a powerful new big data visualization tool today. The Google Public Data Explorer allows users to upload their own datasets for visualization and exploration. Read more →
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RESTful Cloud Database with JSON

Jasondb is a cloud-based, RESTful JSON database designed to replace MySQL as the database in traditional web development Jasondb persists the data in the same JSON...
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Publishing Social Newspapers with Paper.li

Paper.li is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook into a newspaper-style format. Read more →
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Art: 3D Printing Fixes Art Treasures

In 2007 the popular statue Rodin's Thinker was stolen from the Singer Laren museum and damaged whi...
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TeleHash Node Runners in Egypt

I'm learning more about distributed technologies like TeleHash and Kademlia and matching with other wireless infrastructure knowledge I have. Telling in fictional stories helps me apply and understand in my brain. Here is one story from Egypt. Read more →
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Displaying Flickr Images as Polaroid Album

kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 Next I wanted to merge my Polaroid Photo Layout in CSS with my images from Flickr with Zend.
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Telehash Node Runners in Egypt

kinlane-productions2 I’m learning more about distributed technologies like TeleHash and Kademlia and matching with other wireless infrastructure knowledge I have. Telling in fictional stories helps me apply and understand in my brain. Here is one story from Egypt. Read more →
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Pull Images from Flickr with Zend

This code sample is something you can find easily on the Internet, but I want to include it in my series about creating a photo book with Flickr. Its easy to pull photos from Flickr, all you need is a Flickr API
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Polaroid Photo Layout in CSS

I'm working on several print photobook projects right now and I'm always on the lookout for good CSS photo layouts. I came across a very well done tutorial called,
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IPhone 4 Upgrade

I just made the upgrade from my IPhone 3GS to IPhone 4. I 've been waiting because it is really a luxury, not a need. However my IPhone is getting slower and kinlane-productions2ally keeping me from doing work. I chose not to have the store transfer my data, I enjoy doing myself and rewiring my world. Finding new ways of doing things if pos...
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High Stakes Hackathon

We think the hackathons that we do in Silicon Valley are intense, checkout this photo from Egypt. kinlane-productions2 I love the central role computers, mobile phones, Internet and electricity plays in shaping the world!
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Cloud Printing and Importance of the Google Docs Template Gallery

As I'm planning and developing around the Google Cloud Print platform I'm starting to see a bigger picture. If Read more →
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Google Cloud Print From Desktop

I was working on a demo today onGoogle Cloud Printing from Google Apps. I wanted to go through the process of adding a Mimeo ...
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Instagram Launches API

I wrote about Instagram doing one thing really well, and since then I have been getting a lot of searches for the key phrase: instagram api over the last couple months. I was going to blog about it, but Instragram be...
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Google Cloud Print Proxy (Cloud Printer)

I have some working code for a Google Cloud Print Proxy. It is currently written in PHP and uses the Zend framework. I have written specific blog po...
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Google Cloud Print - Fetch

kinlane-productions2 Now that you have aGoogle Cloud Printer registered with the Google Cloud Print (GCP) registry, you can retrieve jobs for that printer. After authenticating using Read more →
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Google Cloud Print - Control

The whole point of deploying a Google Cloud Print Proxy is to be able to manage print jobs. After authenticating using Google ClientLogin...
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Google Cloud Print Proxy - Summary

Ok that concludes my Google Cloud Print Proxy work from the week. I've tried to summarize the work I've done in a series of blog posts and code samples. Here is a summary of what I've done to date with the Google Cloud Print API:
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Google Cloud Print - Delete

kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 Now that you have a Google Cloud Printer registered with the Google Cloud Print (GCP) registry, at some point you will need to remove that printer from a users GCP registry. After authenticating using
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Using Github Gists to Display Code on Blog

Sometimes you notice things on the Internet and they just don't register for a while. I've seen many sites displaying their code samples using a Gist by Github, but it hasn't really registered in my head for some reason. I even created a custom snippet of co...