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Yahoo Pipes Awesomeness

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

I totally forgot about building this until it came up in conversation today. At one time I was obsessed with filtering everything I did on the internet down into one mega rss feed. And Yahoo Pipes was the coolest new thing on the internet. So, the idea was to bring together: Videos I favorited on [...]

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Who’s On First on Twitter

Monday, December 8th, 2008

I’ll start this by saying I know this is a dumb idea. I was looking up fictitious characters on Twitter and found Mia from Californication.  That and the Sterling Cooper [Mad Men] Crew. Anyway, I suggested to my buddy Ari that we should create fake twitters for West Wing Characters (LemonLyman!)  But alas, too much [...]

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Stupid old PHP Database Normalization Script

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I found this in my collection of old random files. Fortunately this one was called normalize.php, rather than the numerous asdf7.php or so files I have. Anyway, at the time I had a huge database that was one big table and every field needed to be normalized into its own table. This was for a [...]

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Last Facebook Ruby Code – Grids

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I promise, in remembering how much I don’t like optimization problems, I was playing around with the Facebook Grid Puzzle. Now I’m done looking at the Facebook problems, but in case anybody else is interested in playing around, here is some Ruby code I wrote that models the problem exactly: Also, as an aside, I’ve [...]

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