How To Automatically Twitter & Facebook WordPress Posts

January 20, 2012

For a while I’ve wanted to figure out a way to automatically send WordPress posts to my Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ accounts.  Some searching led me to How to Push Your WordPress Blog Posts to Twitter and Facebook. In less than an half an hour I download, installed, configured, and tested all three plug-ins. There doesn’t [...]

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Redefining Action Hero: Bill Gates

January 20, 2012

Steve Jobs created an Apple juggernaut. Bill Gates created Microsoft and a better world – he doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Source: frugaldad.com  

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Overriding TextView – MBTA Trip Tracker

December 26, 2011

In my previous post I designed for the data collection screen for the my MBTA Trip Tracker, one that mimics the layout of the paper tickets handed out by conductors. There didn’t appear to be an android: attribute to put a border around Android’s TextView control (the equivalent of a .NET Label). A quick Google search [...]

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The Day Google Failed Me

December 26, 2011

I’ve been writing up a post on subclassing Android’s TextView widget to put a border around it. I want to include some code examples in the post but the WordPresses editor isn’t the greatest for doing things like this. (I know, I can use <pre> and <code> but even with those tags there’s a lot [...]

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Captain’s Log – Stardate 41312.4

December 25, 2011

I’ve got to get some sleep, McCoy and that damn Vulcan are driving me crazy.  

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Design – MBTA Trip Tracker

December 24, 2011

As part of my regular commute from Rhode Island to Cambridge I’ve been logging information about my commuter train rides to try and “optimize” my trips. I’ve been using Evernote to hold the information for each trip  - date, train time, time when my ticket was checked, and the stations I was between when it [...]

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Avoid Duplicate UITableViewCell Rows With UILabel Subviews

December 4, 2011

My latest iOS adventure while coding “Camelot”. I’m loading an array of dictionary elements containing US state data into a UITableView and I’m experiencing duplicate rows when the user scrolls down to offscreen items – row 1 is duplicated at row 8, row 2 is duplicated at row 9, etc. More of the question and [...]

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Replica Vulcan Lyrette

November 22, 2011

I bet I could program a Vulcan lute for the iPad and sell it for much less than $2009.99. I’ve already got the plans (from my Star Fleet Technical Manual).

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Execution is Everything

November 22, 2011

Interesting quote about the founders of Sony from Businessweek’s What Is Sony Now? Sony sprouted from the post-World War II rubble of Japan to become the embodiment of that country’s recovery and rise as a world economic power. The company was founded by two charismatic men who could get almost anything they wanted done. Masaru [...]

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The Walking Dead – 2nd Season

November 13, 2011

I’ve been catching up on the 2nd season episodes of The Walking Dead that I recorded but haven’t watch since the season premiere back in October. I almost deleted them all without watching them but I’m glad I didn’t. The writers have structured the story nicely and gotten a lot of mileage out of the [...]

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