http://tech.andrewloe.com/2008/7/17/rails-development-with-ssl
Site Specific Browsers (SSBs)
Posted by Andrew
I just spent a few minute setting up Site Specific Browsers for my Google Apps. Using Fluid, which was inspired by Mozilla’s Prism, and some nice icons left me with a pretty cool setup – little red badges even show up on my icons if I have unread mail or feed items.
The Power Of Social Networking: Last.fm Gets It Right
Posted by Andrew
While tinkering away with Evan Weaver’s sweeper (a ruby gem for updating id3 tags of mp3s based off last.fm’s fingerprint database) I started clicking around my last.fm profile. I’ve been a religious scrobbler for a few years now (nearly 20,000 songs since May 4th, 2004), but I had never stopped to think about how powerful all of this data could be. I mostly used last.fm for its music recommendations; my profile page will suggest artists for me to explore based off what I have listened to in the past.
Today, I discovered an even cooler feature: events. Last.fm knows what I like, and it knows about lots of events (concerts, shows, festivals). By combining this data, the service can build me a custom calendar of upcoming acts that I may be interested in! I’ve created a quick mash-up using 30 boxes iCal support to display the information on the web, but I have already added this calendar to my personal google calendar. Now, even as my music tastes change, and I move around, I will always have calendar of upcoming events in my area that I will likely be interested in attending. It makes even more sense that CBS spent big money to acquire these guys.
New Job!
Posted by Andrew
Its probably time to announce that I am no longer gainfully unemployed. I accepted a position as “Web Development Engineer” at OneHub.com. Starting on February 18th I’ll be living and working in Seattle, WA. Scary.
