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idisposable is disposed – welcome to techcloud

One item on my very long to-do list has been nagging at me for a long time.
“move idisposable.net to techcloud.com”
The problem was, I’ve been terribly busy building out the cloud products and services practice at LTech.  My two sons are getting bigger.  It’s been hard to blog.  Twitter amused me for a while, but I’ve [...]

I just spent 10 minutes writing up a good post and lost it

 
Very frustrating.  Will try again tomorrow.
 

Dumb Password Policies

Websites, please stop making me use your arcane password complexity rules.

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: 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 [...]

SocialSpark wouldn’t approve my blog

I tried to sign up with SocialSpark, just to see what it was about.  Here was the reply:
 

Subject: We were unable to approve your blog

Message:

Thank you for your blog submission.
Unfortunately we are unable to approve your blog at this time. We require that a blog contains 20 posts within the last 90 days. Please resubmit [...]

Getting Ready for Ruby 1.9

Ruby 1.9: What to Expect goes into some interesting language changes for the 1.9 release.   It is still in development, however there are changes and new features abound. I wonder how much adoption we’ll see, as I assume this is going to break a ton of popular gems and plugins out there.
My favorite bit:
{a: [...]

Ruby on Rails Plugin for the Compete API

I wrote a Rails Plugin for Compete.com’s API.
Check it out, leave comments if you like it or use it.
Thanks

Go Giants

I’m a Jets fan, but the NJ Giants are big in my neck of the woods – and the only team I dislike more than the Red Sox is the Patriots (sorry to my pals in Boston but this is football… .

New Facebook App: Jobs

Check out this new Facebook app I wrote, Jobs.
http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=2ef3f8cc5320897be6432956cc6213dc
You can search jobs, search your friends companies for jobs, and much more!
It was a trip working with the Facebook API. Very powerful. Kudos to Facebook for opening up their platform!!
Shout out to Space Chimp.

TechCloud is Digg proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache

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