Embracing Distractions of the Digital Age
Recent Posts
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- Aug
- 03
- 2011
Experiments with LevelDB
It was an interesting day today. I am currently neck-deep in a client project which makes use of NodeJS in what is becoming a pretty standard kind of configuration for Sidelab projects.
While I won't go into the architecture here (I'll save that for when I finally get ...
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- Jul
- 26
- 2011
Static Website Generators - Jekyll vs Hyde
About 6 months ago (I think...) I converted this blog from a Wordpress driven solution to a static site built with the excellent static generator, Jekyll. I was in heaven. I could write my blog posts in Markdown and in general feel more productive when blogging. Though recently, I've ...
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- May
- 25
- 2011
HTML5 Library Monetization
Yesterday saw the release of the open beta of Isogenic Engine. Somewhat suprising was the fact that to get involved with the beta, a purchase of a premium license was required. Even at the discounted beta rates, it's not an insignificant amount either (well for an indie developer anyway).
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- May
- 23
- 2011
A Punter's Opinion on the Future of Android
First, let me say that I love everything that Android as an ideal stands for. It's wonderful - a hardware agnostic, open (to an extent) device operating system which should in theory should be kicking some serious bottom. And, in many ways it is. However, I really don't think ...
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- May
- 19
- 2011
Disillusionment and Graceful Exits
While reviewing google alerts today, and having a look at what was going on with other opensource mapping APIs (for those who don't know, I created and continue to work on something called Tile5), I came across Leaflet. I have to say, Leaflet looks to be a fine API ...
