One of the things that makes Google Ads so, well, not good, but at least tolerable, is that the ads are usually relevant to the page you’re looking at. A style of ads that has been popping up on many sites (literally) are the ads that appear when you hover over what looks like a […]
This isn’t a big app but it’s an app I’ve been meaning to build for a long time, and the barrier to entry – having to write a login system – made me keep putting it off. But now that I’ve got FlexAccount, I was able to go from File New to a deployed app […]
The first article in this series invited you to clean some of the metadata in your iTunes library. You can visit that article here. This time we’re going to refine the set of songs that we want to work with. Notice I said “songs”. If your iTunes library is anything like mine, there are a […]
An interesting post by Eric Sink at SourceGear on some quirks you run into building a cross-platform version control system. I like this one: Under Linux, checkin a file with a name that ends in a dot. Check it out under Windows. The trailing dot is probably gone. Now check the file back in and […]
Garmin has released a map update, their 2010 update. Yes, it’s April 2009, but that’s what it’s called. So how new is the data? Well, the previous update didn’t include any of the Costco stores in Ottawa. This new update includes one – only one – of the three Costco stores in Ottawa. And it […]
I’ve been managing a fairly large music library (~80 gig) with iTunes for a while now, and I’ve come up with some techniques for managing the music library that I think work pretty well. I’m going to write a series of blog posts with techniques for managing your iTunes library, including trying to surface some […]
I added ads to some of the posts on the Ottawa Events site RSS feed. It looks like there are almost 300 subscribers to that feed, and it’ll be interesting to see if I lose any to the ads. They’re fairly small and unobtrusive (and because the content is so focused, seem more relevant than […]
Two incidents caught my eye today: This one, where all the equipment in a datacenter belong to Core IP Networks LLC was seized, allegedly to help police determine the source of a movie leak. And this one, where the RCMP shut down a record shop in Ottawa, for allegedly selling bootleg records (although police only […]
If you’re wondering how to pass parameters into a Flex popup window, as documented here or here, or how to set the initObj parameter.. it’s deprecated. I was trying to figure out how to create a popup window and pass a parameter into it, and really I still don’t think I have, but the new […]
Calculated Risk has a post on Q1 GDP, predicting it will be ugly. He uses an analogy to demonstrate how companies that make enabling technologies like computers and software will be in for tough times. Imagine ACME widget company with a steadily growing sales volume (say 5% per year). In the first half of 2008 […]