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NHIN Direct: Open Healthcare Records and Government as a Platform
You'd never think it from the right-wing media hysteria around the administration's health care initiatives, but some of the best thinking about minimal government intervention is happening right now in healthcare. In my advocacy around Government 2.0, I've been focused on the idea that government should act like a...
Ribbit enables developers to combine the richness of voice calling with the interactivity of Web 2.0 experiences. Finally there's a technology able to record and manage voice mails directly from a web site. This great feature has millions of possible implementation scenarios, but here's just one, in my step by...
Comparing Apples To Oranges with Flex
Occasionally you might find the need to compare completely unrelated data in your applications. This may sound a bit odd, but it does happen, especially in cases where you may want to observe and compare trends within your data sets. This could include completely different data sets, using different value...
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Example of Flex 3 and ColdFusion 9 ORM (2)
In my previous blog entry I demonstrated how easy it was to mix ColdFusion 9's new ORM features with a fancy (ok, simple) Flex front end. I left off the application in a rather simplistic state. On the server side, I had designed a ColdFusion CFC to interface with the...
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Looping on a timer with Javascript setInterval
Quick example of setInterval to remind myself how to write it in the future… <html> <head> <title>Javascript SetInterval</title> </head> <body> <script> var interval; var count = 0; interval = window.setInterval(function(){ count++; if (count<5){ // do something document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = count; } else { window.clearInterval(interval); } }, 200); </script> <div id="test"></div> </body> </html> ...
Essential Open Source Desktop Applications
I’ve installed a few machines recently – both Windows, and Linux – and often forget to install things that I find really useful. Hence this list – so I can check down it next time. Google Chrome – best browser around at the moment Open Office – Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, etc InkScape – Vector...
How to Implement Log4Net in a .NET Webservice.
I had a webservice sitting in the layouts directory of Microsoft SharePoint. I wanted to add some logging functionality to it, and the rest of the development team had started using Log4Net (a very good open source logging framework) – therefore I dropped in on the Log4Net website to find...
I installed the fell desktop installation of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” on an ASUS EEE 1000H over the weekend, and thought it might be worth sharing my experiences. First, some screenshots… The Desktop The plain-vanilla desktop, with menu’s left switched on so you can see them (I normally auto-hide them on a...
How to get unlimited web and texts on your O2 iPhone for £15 a month
My iPhone recently ran off the end of it’s contract – and as I have written about elsewhere on the web, I chose not to renew the contract. When I called O2 to cancel the contract (which was costing me £35 a month), they offered to send me a “Pay and...
Recovering FileZilla Login Information
If you’re half as stupid as me, you regularly enter FTP connection details directly into FileZilla, and promptly lost the source of the information – so you rely on the quick logon drop-down. How do you find out the passwords for FileZilla connections ? Easy. Navigate to your profile directory, and then to...
The Horse
How is FourSquare changing marketing?
A little mobile ap called Foursquare, that was introduced last year at SXSW has exploded in popularity this year and is being rumored to be the next Twitter as a new generation of "location based services" (or LBS) including Foursquare and GoWalla are set to take over the mobile social...
Hot off the presses today, Apple's Steve Jobs announced and showed off the new iPad tablet computing device called the iPad. For those of you that have been hiding in a cave, the iPad is an ultra thin tablet computer used over Wi-Fi and soon over 3G cellular networks. Some...
The website mowjcamp.org hacked by Iranian cyber terrorists
The website mowjcamp.org hacked by Iranian cyber terrorists, originally uploaded by Josh Self.Full article by me on Examiner.com:Twitter hacked by Iranian Cyber Army - http://tinyurl.com/y96m435Stolen from THE HORSE (rigpea82.blogspot.com) ...
This device isn't a spaceship, its a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards... It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. Its not called "the wheel", its called "The Carousel". It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and then...
Outskirts of West Berlin, West Germany10:37 pm August 30th, 1961The stench of diesel exhaust filled the air. It had snowed the day before and the streets were still icy. Smokey clouds of CO2 puffed out of the exhaust pipes from the convoy of US Army supply trucks that sat idling...
"That last catch was swell Neil!"A young guy in a letter jacket opened the door of the old bar in the industrial section of Trussville, Alabama. "Yea, but it was your great block on that running back that cleared the path!", Neil Self said as they all paused in the...
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I’m a Douchebag? is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedI’m a douchebag, this I know. For the button tells me so....
Did You Order Your iPad Today?
Did You Order Your iPad Today? is a post from Chris PirilloThe iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today. A group of particularly prudent Apple fans from the APPL Sanity Board at Investor Village decided to put together a spreadsheet of order numbers, times that orders were placed and...
I Found Me Some @LizMoney is a post from Chris PirilloFound her in the middle of the crosswalk. Her phone sucks when taking pictures – even at SXSW. Forgive the quality! Keep in mind that the smiles were more than real! Liz is great!Thanks to AMD for making this moment...
Pixelated Geek
I friend of mine gave me a link to this guy Alex Day, now I have never heard of him before and was very amused by the idea of a videogame musician. Then I found out that he is just a bit more than a guy with a guitar. Now,...
MegaCon 2010 (Warning: lots of pics!)
Ok, let me first introduce you to what MegaCon is: Mega Convention (read: giant nerd fest). It’s held every year in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. They have something there for just about everyone: comics, manga, anime, movies, artists, collector’s items (action figures, figurines, etc…), video games,...
Another week in Tech has flown by, but what have we got to show for it? Well, have you ever wished you could fly? Not in a plane I mean, fly like Superman? Yeah, I have too. Well I’m afraid that’s impossible, but you can have the next best thing, the...
Jack Might Be Back – 24 May Move to NBC
Attention 24 fans! (the few that remain) Now I know this season hasn’t been that great and I know it’s hard to keep your loyalty when the quality has obviously declined, but do you really wanna see Jack Bauer gone? If you’re like me and love the occasional torture, betrayals,...
GDC Highlight 3-12-10 – Sixense TrueMotion system
Second day at the GDC conference and I managed to hit one other interesting display for us gamers: the Sixense TrueMotion system. Available for demonstration using an in-house demo peripheral, Sixense hopes to ship this new motion-sensing technology for use in a new Razer product. Where the Wii and the Sony...
Doritos is the last company that would come to mind when making an iPad parody video. But then again, we should have seen this coming since Doritos is known for their viral commercials. Can’t blame Doritos for trying to be as technologically advanced as Apple by just creating a bigger version...
GeekLad
The Google AdWords Keyword Tool is a great tool to help you identify popular keywords that can help with search engine optimization. However, it really only supplies insight into one component of the equation when it comes to driving traffic to your site: keyword demand. It lacks any...
goo.gl URL Shortener Bookmarklet via YQL
Last month we saw a new Google URL shortening service that will be used for Feedburner and the Google Toolbar. It wasn’t long before the URL shortening code in the toolbar was dissected, and subsequent APIs developed. I managed to put together my own by using YQL. YQL is...
I found this excerpt from Yahoo! Finance particularly amusing. Apparently, Obama wants local lenders to help businesses seize. Related posts No related posts....
Google Fusion Tables Could be a Game Changer
Google has been very busy lately with many new products recently. Many of them, such as Google Public DNS, Google Chrome OS, and real-time search have received the lion’s share of publicity. I’d like to talk about a little jewel sitting in Google Labs you may not heard...
Turn Any File into an EXE with Convert to EXE
If you’re a geek like me, you may on occasion have run into a situation where you had a file that you needed to convert to exe. I had read a few forum posts and tutorials on how to do this with self-extracting installers, and I even managed to...
Download the Google Chrome OS Virtual Machine
Last week, Techcrunch reported rumors of the release of the Google Chrome OS. They stated that the info came from a reliable source, and indeed that source was reliable. Google had an event at their headquarters, and indeed provided new details and a demo of the Chrome OS....
Wikio - Chris Pirillo
Social Media Updates for 2010-03-14 (Chris Pirillo)
Social Media Updates for 2010-03-14 is a post from Chris Pirillo All this energy at # SXSW makes me wonder why the Pacific Northwest doesn't have something truly similar? # Icons for the multi-touch world: http://gesturecons.com/ [via @amalucky] # "Oh good, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are here. Because lord knows...
I’m a Douchebag? (Chris Pirillo)
I’m a Douchebag? is a post from Chris Pirillo http://twitter.com/chrispirillo – I’m a douchebag, this I know. For the button tells me so. I Found Me Some @LizMoney Philip DeFranco and Texas Women! It’s official. @PhillyD is at SXSW. Do You Have a Question for AMD? SXSW Conference Tips Are...
Did You Order Your iPad Today? (Chris Pirillo)
Did You Order Your iPad Today? is a post from Chris Pirillo The iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today. A group of particularly prudent Apple fans from the APPL Sanity Board at Investor Village decided to put together a spreadsheet of order numbers, times that orders were placed...
I Found Me Some @LizMoney (Chris Pirillo)
I Found Me Some @LizMoney is a post from Chris Pirillo Found her in the middle of the crosswalk. Her phone sucks when taking pictures – even at SXSW. Forgive the quality! Keep in mind that the smiles were more than real! Liz is great! Thanks to AMD for making...
Seattle Twitter Conference Wrap-Up (Chris Pirillo)
Seattle Twitter Conference Wrap-Up is a post from Chris Pirillo On March 8th, I attended the Featuring140 – The Twitter Conference right here in Seattle. The event was put together (very well, I might add!) by The Parnassus Group. Knowing that Twitter is out there and that you need to...
AMD for You and Me? (Chris Pirillo)
AMD for You and Me? is a post from Chris Pirillo http://twitter.com/chrispirillo – Visiting AMD today, seeing their new technology. Do You Have a Question for AMD? Are Geeks Friendly? Are GPUs the future of CPUs? AMD AM2 FX-62 Processor Does Free Speech Exist on the Internet? SXSW Conference Tips...
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Whip Up a Custom Fedora Spin with Revisor
Image via Wikipedia One of the bigger issues with some Linux distributions is the software selection. Some packages come with entirely too much software, while others require many updates and additions just to function properly. By creating a re-spin of your favorite flavor of Linux, many of the issues can be...
Love, Hate and Third Party Comment Systems
Fresh out the box, WordPress comments just are not enough for me. I don’t want someone to have to fill out any extra forms to comment, especially when I despise doing that myself. It is not like this place is some hotbed of conversation so I can understand if people...
Code that Caters to Your Laziness
Image via Wikipedia Like clockwork, people build lists of resolutions and things to do for the new year. Many of the folks with websites end up scrambling to change the copyright dates sometime in the afternoon before they go out New Years Eve, or they end up doing it while hungover...
Does Duct Tape Work on WordPress?
After having used WordPress and phpBB separately for some time, the need to combine them did not happen until recently. Considering the popularity of the two, you would think that there would be an easy way to glue them together already. This does not seem to be the case. This was a...
Image by ncomment via Flickr I get it. You want to sound like an authority on something. All the other authorities have said something is dead, but you want to fit in so you swirl the words around in a cup and say it is dead on your blog as well. That’s...
To state the obvious, ads are usually annoying. Usually they are only vaguely related to the content on the page and most of the time it is a highest bidder situation and not one where the website owner actually cares about the product. While this is totally understandable when the...
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The #cheezburger party at Cedar Door has been the best I've been to tonight. Still happening, too!
Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ The #cheezburger party at Cedar Door has been the best I've been to tonight. Still happening, too! 1 hour ago from Ping.fm - Comment - Like ...
Car 54, Where Are You? Over here on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco!
Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ Car 54, Where Are You? Over here on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco! - http://www.lockergnome.com/hammond... 3 hours ago from Lockergnome Blog Network - Comment - Like ...
Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ I need to assemble a Food, Drink, and Conversation festival in Seattle. I'll call it "Mouth by Mouthwest." 4 hours ago from Ping.fm - Comment - Like ...
Adobe Photoshop Elements Unboxing
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If your SXSW party has a waiting line, I'm absolutely NOT interested. Moving on...
Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ If your SXSW party has a waiting line, I'm absolutely NOT interested. Moving on... 5 hours ago from Ping.fm - Comment - Like ...
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“Does it play Crysis?” is almost on its way out as a meme. That’s because Crytek has shown off Crysis 2 at GDC this year, with a not-surprisingly stunning video showing off the capabilities of not only the game, but the latest iteration of the underlying engine, CryEngine 3. Even...
Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands gameplay video
The new Prince of Persia, due out in May, helps fill in the seven year gap between The Sands Of Time and Warrior Within, as seen in the new trailer, which has both gameplay footage and developer commentary. From the looks of it, it’s very much in the...
Chrome OS due out by end of 2010
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, while speaking at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, announced that Google’s Chrome OS is still under construction, and on track to be released in the second half of this year. Chrome OS is a lightweight Linux based OS that uses the Google Chrome web browser as the...
Remember OnLive, the cloud gaming service that promises to handle all the computational power of video gaming at their servers, requiring only a browser plug-in (Windows & Mac) or MicroConsole? Yesterday OnLive announced that the service will officially launch for US consumers (well, the 48 contiguous States) starting June 17th...
OpenGL 4.0 is here and ready to compute
Announced today at the 2010 Games Developers Conference, the latest version of OpenGL is available to developers for use. A cross-platform system for rendering graphics, OpenGL and it’s variants, such as OpenGL|ES for mobile devices, basically deliver the 3D goods on just about any platform. OpenGL 4.0 builds on past iterations,...
Full 3D gaming on Microsoft’s Windows Phone demoed
Engadget managed to get a hands on of a couple of Windows Phone 7 games built with XNA Game Studio 4.0. Although they weren’t allowed to take any video of the games in action, they said it did work, including unlocking achievements. The more impressive of the two...
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The latest Juxt Interactive work for Sprite and the NBA is now live. Case study to shortly follow. In the meantime, please enjoy the experience at: http://www.nba.com/dunk_fanfaceoff...
In just a few hours the latest project which has consumed the past few months will be live, stay tuned! Here is a preview/teaser:...
SQL Server Nightly Backup Script
Below is a Microsoft SQL Server script that I use to create nightly backups. The backups (.BAK files) can be copied to hard drive, tape, or remote storage to satisfy your disaster recovery requirements. The script requires two (2) modifications – first change the ‘master_backup_dir’ variable to the...
Sprite Step Off wins Site of the Day
On September 6th, The FWA (Favourite Website Awards) issued the Site of The Day award to Sprite Step Off. This is a project Juxt has been working on since late 2008. Many site enhancements are on the way. Expect a case study in December....
5 Firefox add-on’s Web Developers can’t live without
Over the past few years the Firefox community has growth fast and fierce. For web developers there have been countless add-on’s and plugins published that making building websites (i) more efficient (ii) more browser-compatible, and (iii) easier to debug. Below are my top five: Top 5 Web Developer Firefox Add-on’s Web Developer...
Twitter Strategy in the Workplace
Employees tweet at work just as they use instant messaging services assuming your company doesn’t have a policy prohibiting them said usage. So here is my views on how to harness Twitter in the workplace: Define a strategy for your company, just as we have done! I believe transparency...
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Author: l0ckergn0meAdded: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:50:21 -0800Duration: 0http://twitter.com/chrispirillo - Please don&apos;t ask why I agreed to do this with my parents. This is going to be a long weekend. ...
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How to Save Your Digital Assets When You Die
Author: l0ckergn0meAdded: Wed, 06 May 2009 15:32:52 -0800Duration: 0http://www.twitter.com/chrispirillo - Inevitably, we're not going to be here at some point in time. Death comes to us all. In knowing our own mortality, we can enjoy life while we're here. What happens to your online self when you pass on, though?...
How to Create Your Own Twitter Clone
Author: l0ckergn0meAdded: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:56:32 -0800Duration: 0http://www.twitter.com/chrispirillo - Are you following me on Twitter? It's no secret I'm very active there. Have you thought about creating your own Twitter-like environment for a target group of people? That's easier than ever to do now. http://chris.pirillo.com - http://geeks.pirillo.com Distributed...
How to Share Music and be Your own DJ
Author: l0ckergn0meAdded: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:56:32 -0800Duration: 0http://www.twitter.com/chrispirillo - I am quite literally all over the musical map. I'll listen to any kind of music. Inevitably, I'll be playing a song and someone has to ask who sings it. Then, of course, they want to know how to download...
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Android has revved to version 2.1, and we’ve got a new edition of Hello, Android that’s up to date with all the latest changes. You can get the beta eBook now, or opt for the Beta on Paper to get a...
All about the iPad; Metaprogramming Ruby in print
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Car 54, Where Are You? Over here on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco!
Car 54, Where Are You? Over here on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco!Car 54 a 1956 Ford seems to have magically appeared over here on Telegraph Hill in North Beach San Francisco completely equipped with working radio, photo by Jon HammondOn the way to the studios of KYOU Radio and...
Adobe Photoshop Elements Unboxing
Photoshop Elements is a very useful piece of software for you to have on your computer. It is not very expensive and can do anything from simple enhancements to photos you have taken to designing a slick logo from scratch. One thing that I end up doing a lot is...
They’re Coming To Tweet Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
It seems as though everyone in the world is on Twitter now. Sadly, not all of them know how to utilize this fabulous tool to maximize their outreach. The reach you can have by using social media can be staggering. However, you have to know how to use the service...
Can Tom Hanks And Steven Spielberg Do It Again With ‘Pacific’?
I am a one hundred per cent certified World War II fanatic and drive my wife insane with my recording and watching of WWII programs. Saving Private Ryan and the Band of Brothers are some of my favorite stories of WWII along with a bunch of others. So when I...
Pi Day and Thinking About “Pi”
Today is Pi Day and below is an article that was posted previously on these pages. However, “pi” was also the nickname of Gimpi, a member of the Lockergnome community that many of us knew and miss. His passing was sudden and his friends miss him. Here’s...
The One Reason We Need To Pass Health Care Now!
I have my own opinion about the merits and lack of merits that the current health bill may or may not provide. But when I heard that Rush Limbaugh would leave the country and go to Costa Rico, it changed my mind completely. I am now 100% supportive of any...
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