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Monthly Archives: November 2008

MAME for Blackberry

I am surprised that no one has written a MAME install for Blackberry. I wonder how difficult it would be. If anyone wants to commission something like this with me, drop me a line.

Rails for .NET Developers: New Book Out!

Check it out.
Our friends over at Softies on Rails have put a book out that will help any .NET developer looking to work with Ruby on Rails.  The Softies crew was an early inspiration for me to try out Ruby and Mac development, and I am really happy for them that they were able [...]

What if the Matrix ran on Windows?

Stay tuned until the end — “Ubuntu, I’m going to learn … Ubuntu?”

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Blackberry User Tools on Mac OS X – Any clues?

The CD-ROM that came with my new Blackberry Bold loads up on my Mac.  There is a folder for “Blackberry User Tools,” and some weird application loads that doesn’t have anything in it.
Does anyone know what this is supposed to be?

Yahoo Application Platform is out – anyone have good examples?

The new Yahoo Application Platform was launched.

This looks really cool.  I hope it is not all for naught.  Anyone using it?  Have any examples? Please post them!
The support forum has few active topics. But I think there is potential here, even if Yahoo doesn’t exist in the same form 3 or 6 months from now.  [...]

Yahoo: API’s done right

Yahoo has been a whipping boy of late.  They turn down $30+ per share from Microsoft, then the market tanks and they are lucky to be hovered in the low-teens.  Google has just put the ixnay on the ad-deal-ay.
Despite all of this, they have fresh API’s that wipe the floor with the top competition.
Let’s start [...]

Google.com – all your weather is in Celsius now. Boo.

Did Google arbitrarily decide we should start living on the Metric system?  The “OneBox for Weather” seems to think so:

What is a Google OneBox?  The post here explains: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-onebox-results.html It is basically a shortcut search that returns a snippet of data, like weather or movietimes.  It is really cool when it works correctly.  However, I [...]

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