I needed a way to extract additional content and details about any given website that a User might add to PickyList. So I sat down and wrote what is now dubbed URLSummary that takes a URL and outputs an XML document. This class is written in PHP 5, and I cannot confirm or deny that [...]
8 Reasons not to use Internet Explorer 6
Are you using Internet Explorer 6? Would you walk naked through Central Park at night with a $1000 tapped to your body? Well that’s exactly what your doing using IE 6. Please take a moment and see what your missing. You most likely have an infected computer that is spamming the rest of us. Your [...]
Super simple Ruby on Rails cloud hosting using AptanaCloud
RadRails – the Ruby IDE integrates seamlessly with Aptana Cloud Founder Paul Colton walks us through the basics of creating Ruby on Rails projects with Aptana RadRails, and then deploying those projects to Aptana Cloud. via Aptana TV.
Aptana Cloud just knocked my socks off.
Over the last 5 days, I have been re-coding PickyList – a new database and a new user experience. Since I was already on a terror, I decided to check out some “Cloud Hosting Services” – right now we are paying a decent chunk per month at GoDaddy, with no quick way to scale. I [...]
5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5 – ReadWriteWeb
HTML 5 is the upcoming major revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the main method of marking up content for sharing on the World Wide Web. HTML’s development stopped at HTML 4.01 in 1999, and since then web content has evolved so much that current HTML specifications are inadequate for today’s requirements. via 5 [...]
LinkedIn Profile API – 1.6 Released.
Update 2/23/2011: Version 1.6 LinkedIN Made some changes to it’s public profile pages HTML – thus breaking most of the selectors. This has now been updated. http://icorbin.com/code/linkedin/profile/1.6/ Update 5/1/2010: I have updated the example to the proper URL http://icorbin.com/code/linkedin/profile/1.5/ UPDATE 4/27/2010: I have rewritten the LinkedIn Profile Parser to leverage PHP’s DOMDocument. No longer are [...]
Turn your Wii Remote in to a Digital Whiteboard [Video]
Johnny Lee shows his killer Wii Remote hacks. He converts the $40 Wii Remote in to a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a 3-D viewer you wear on your head. Here is Johnny’s Wii Remote Hack Site where you can learn how to do this, and download his software.
Roll your own WordPress Tiny URL and Capitalize on your Domain’s Brand.
I am tired of TinyURL getting all of the domain “brand share” from my Blogs tweets. So I wanted to come up with my own solution to create short urls using my blogs domain: BrandonsHead.com. Yes, my domain is longer than “TinyUrl”, and I assume that yours is too – however, those 5 or so [...]
The End of JobFu – The Dying Resume
UPDATE: Download the LinkedIn PHP Class that powered JobFu. Recently, my little side project JobFu (turning a LinkedIn Public Profile in to a nice looking Living Resume) was slammed on LinkedIn by M. Joyce the Creator of IDEA Masters Online Real Time Magazine (thats a mouthful). She clearly states that she is partly outraged, not [...]
Photos of Downtown Indy – Free for any use.
I noticed that there was a shortage of FREE (and decent) photos of Indianapolis and specifically downtown when I started working on PickyList’s marketing material. As any self respecting (and broke) entrepreneur – I grabbed the camera, jumped in the car and headed south. Keep in mind, I am far from a photographer – however, [...]
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