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Kin Lane

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
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Instagram Photo Book [Idea]

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 ...
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Infographic Poster Marketplace [API Ideas]

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...
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Building My API Community with Elance

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 ...
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github Repositories for Your API Ideas

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 inter...
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Facebook Responds to Data Concerns

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 d...
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Information Curation with My Google Reader

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 →
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JQuery Powered Flipbook for Previewing Print Files

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 →
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Documents as Cloud Printing Objects

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 →