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Category Archives: Programming

Amazon Link Marklet

22-Feb-09

Just a quick post for anyone using Amazon’s affiliate program.  Since it’s a pain to use Amazon’s own link maker, and the amazon associates toolbar creates links that are too log to easily paste in email of IM, I’ve created a bookmarklet to solve the problem. This little marklet will take the current amazon URL, [...]

New Life for an Old Domain

28-Aug-08

As some of you know, I also write (wrote) for a blog at lr2.com.  It was a reasonably popular links blog when I cared to post a few times a day.  In the last two years I have all but ignored the site, and traffic has fallen steadily as a result. Since I am already [...]

Google Trends, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python

15-Jun-08

.!. Henry brings up a good question in the comments on the indeed.com comparison of the languages.  While I don’t believe the trends in search terms are a good measure of job possibilities or job growth, they do indicate what people are interested in, or at least what they are having trouble with.   The [...]

Stop the Auto-Play Madness

11-Jun-08

.!. I don’t care if you are a band, and want to promote your new song.  If I am shopping for music, then odds are very good that I like music, and that I am already listening to something.  Your shit doesn’t sound good mixed up with whatever I’m listening to. Don’t set up a [...]

Google App Engine – Google Code

07-Jun-08

.!. Google App Engine – Google Code Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. Try it free with 500 MB persistent storage and enough juice to server up 5 million pages a month. Sounds like a good [...]

Powerset, the Next Google Killer?

12-May-08

Is Powerset set to take on the Google? Somehow I doubt it, but they are getting a lot of marketing buzz today.