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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
If you're in SE Michigan and excited about the release of Hardy Heron, head out to Arbor Brewing Company (google map) this Saturday, April 26 for a release party.
If you aren't in this area, no worries! There are parties being held all over the freaking place. Check this page to ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
This blog is now running on Wordpress 2.5 with no major issues so far. A couple of my plugins aren't working, but no big deal. I'm sure they'll be updated in a timely fashion.
So far, I'm pretty pleased with the new admin interface. It's pretty. I'll have to take some ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
I know Pipes has been around for a while, but I just now got into using it. The interface is really simple to use but configuring the actual modules is something that requires at least a little programming talent. This is particularly true once you start involving aspects like regular ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Testing SyntaxHighlighter...
module EvenOdd
def even? # is the number even?
0==self%2
end
def odd? # or is it odd?
0!=self%2
end
end
Integer.send(:include, EvenOdd)
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
For anyone who cares to see it, here is my Flickr photoset from Gen Con. None of the people in these photos is me.
http://flickr.com/photos/mmayers/sets/72157601573561185/
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
There has been quite a bit of buzz lately about Adobe Apollo. It's a framework that allows you to, using Adobe dev tools, create Web-based applications that can also be run in an offline mode on your desktop. How does this work? The key is in the ability to sync ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Today, digg announced the release of their new REST-based API. It looks pretty full-featured, though I haven't gotten much of a chance to play around with it yet. They have already provided Flash and PEAR toolkits for the API and are accepting submissions from users for additional language toolkits. Let's ...
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
I've finally worked up the motivation to start building my online portfolio, located at http://mattmayers.com/. I've already added a couple of my finished projects on there and I hope to add more very soon. I am really ready to get myself out there as a serious Rails freelancer and work ...
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
I thought that everyone had seen the following demo video for Portal by Valve already. If you haven't, take a look and just try to tell me that's not one of the coolest things you've ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if3Qv2tHyfA
Yes, yes. I know it's awesome.
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Kevin Clark at Glu.ttono.us has an excellent article titled Thing you shouldn't be doing in Rails. If you are a Rails developer—beginner or advanced—you should give this a read. There are a couple interesting things in there that I wouldn't have thought of on my own such as (not) using ...
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