Stories
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 inter...
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!"
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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...
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Taking an API from area to community takes a lot of work. It just doesn't happen overnight. It takes a perfect balance of technology, developers, partners, resources and hard work. APIs are a big part of the future of a distributed workforce, and developer communities like Elance are building the workfo...
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As I'm spending a lot of time with Google Docs lately, I'm getting to see it in a different perspective.
Google Docs has always been a singular document editor for me. When you step back and look at it from 100K foot, you start to see a bigger picture.
I'm seeing the potential of Google Docs as a publishing platform. Google...
I am defining various aspects of the Google Docs platform in conjunction with my Google Cloud Print Proxy work.
I need to know what is possible via the
Understanding how the federal government spends our money is on all of our minds, especially this time of year. I recently pulled out an old tool I build last year to visual the State of Oregon spending, and reworked it to help visualize Obamas 2012 Federal Budget. I wanted to set what my priorities were regarding the federal budget. I'm not 100% finished, s...
Using the Google Docs List API you can convert high-resolution PDFs or images into editable text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
The University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has announced a prototype millimeter-scale computer along with their paper on the subject at at the
I spent some time this evening researching file size limitations for Google Docs. Here is what I found:
Documents - 512,000 characters, regardless of the number of pages or font size. Uploaded document files that are converted to Google documents format can't be larger than 1MB.
Spreadshe...
Google is partnering with the Czech National Library to digitize up to 200,000 works from the historical collection dating back to the 11th cent...
Google Docs Listing API provides document translation at file upload.
When upload a document you can enable document translation with the following parameters:
targetLanguage=x
sourceLanguage=y
Google can also autodetect the so...
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
It makes me hopeful to see the top news stories are protests in Libya, Wisconsin, and China. The world is on fire.
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...
Amazon made some more tweaks to Amazon S3 that make it even easier to host your entire static web site at Amazon S3....
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 ...
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.
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...
Paper.li is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook into a newspaper-style format.
In 2007 the popular statue Rodin's Thinker was stolen from the Singer Laren museum and damaged whi...
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.
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Next I wanted to merge my Polaroid Photo Layout in CSS with my images from Flickr with Zend.
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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. 
