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Passing the Turing Test
One of the books I am currently reading is “An Introduction to Neural Networks“. The introductory chapter covered the Turing Test and the fact that no computer has ever come close to passing it. The context of the chapter was about the limitations of the computer to house and efficiently access a db of [...]
Trying out bloggers mobile interface
Adding some message body to see where it ends up.
kindle2 web browser
Very happy with my Kindle2 so far as a book reader. I enjoy reading tech books and my wife uses it for novels.
I’ve started playing with the experimental web browser and have found it to be very useful. As expecting it has trouble with graphics but for mobile oriented sites it has proved [...]
Winter Coders Social 2008
This year’s Winter Coders Social is set to go. Come join the party this Tuesday, December 9th at Cubespace.
Details: http://calagator.org/events/1250456151
GD imagettftext broken on Leopard/mac ports
Spent the better part of the morning battling PHP/GD. I needed to overlay text on an image, something I can recall doing in the past without issue. Not this morning though. Everytime the code got to ‘imagettftext’ it would result in a WSOD. After much troubleshooting and Google’ng I found [...]
Augmenting Web Services with SMS and XMPP
This talk was centered around adding channels of communication such as SMS and XMPP to existing HTTP web services.A project called Extapi, is a small web app that manages this coordination between multiple channels and services.here are the slides for my presentation given on November 14th 2008 at PHP|Works
AT PHP Works
In Atlanta for the php|works conference.Listening to the Keynote from Kevin Dangoor (founder of turbo gears). He’s discussing successfully fostering open source projects.Looking forward to meeting new folks with PHP and/or Python backgrounds
Speaking at this years PHPWorks in Atlanta
Very excited that the talk I submitted to php|works was accepted. I’ll be speaking at the Atlanta conference on my continuing work with combining XMPP and SMS with existing web API’s
Shizzow’s public announcment
One of my side projects has turned into a full blown startup. Shizzow.com will be officially announced at today’s Lunch 2.0 at cube space. It’s been a pleasure working with the other fine folks on this project and I’m looking forward to the future.Thanks to Silicon Florist for all the press
Accessing Trimet Arrival Times with SMS
I discovered the Portland Trimet API about a month ago and was very inspired by the amount of real-time information available and the ease of accessing it through their web service. One feature of the service is that for a given stop id you can get the arrival times for the buses/trains for [...]
