Posts for Mitchell Hislop


Developing the Developer’s Mind

From Mitchell Hislop
September 1, 2010 at 10:52 pm
As many of you know, I have been spending much more time developing than consulting. I have been working more on my PHP skills, while also learning Ruby on Rails and Python. This ... (more)

Super Cool Web Thing Of The Day – Greplin

From Mitchell Hislop
September 1, 2010 at 10:45 pm
I have decided to put my daily trips around the internet to good use, and start doing a “Super Cool Web Thing Of The Day” post. Now, this will only happen on days that ... (more)

I love you, readers

From Mitchell Hislop
August 24, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Therefore, I want to hook you up. Click this link, and you can get into Digg V4 Alpha pre-launch. You are welcome. Related posts:Code a Webapp This is how I will be trying to ... (more)

On Ideas

From Mitchell Hislop
August 2, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Ideas are a fickle thing. Sometimes, they manifest themselves as the best thing ever, only to be an idea that has already been had some number of times. I recently got into a discussion ... (more)

CES 2011!!!!!!11!!1!1!

From Mitchell Hislop
July 29, 2010 at 7:36 pm
CES is here Luckily, I am in a position to live the dream of every geek, and am attending CES 2011 as press once again, in Las Vegas. If you are a MN person, or someone I know ... (more)

My New Desktop

From Mitchell Hislop
July 21, 2010 at 11:01 am
This is a slight departure from the normal geek chat that goes on here, but I wanted to show you all my desktop. For some time now, I have been using GeekTool to embed scripts ... (more)

Hacking android

From Mitchell Hislop
July 15, 2010 at 12:48 am
Motorola recently announced that the used the signed bootloader on the DroidX, and on the Droid2. This is really bad news for anyone who wants to use custom roms, kernels, or even ... (more)

Androids secret weapon

From Mitchell Hislop
June 24, 2010 at 1:37 am
I have been spending quite a bit of time helping some of my friends tweak their android phones. It finally helped me nail down one of the factors that make me love Android over ... (more)

Google Command Line Tools

From Mitchell Hislop
June 18, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Like any true geek, I constantly have a command line open. Therefore, I was super happy to see that google released their “googlecl” package, which is a collection ... (more)

My Android Homescreens

From Mitchell Hislop
June 18, 2010 at 1:49 pm
I figured it was time to do a post on what my homescreens look like, especially after upgrading to android 2.2. So, here you go: Center Screen: This is the default screen on my ... (more)

Where to follow me

From Mitchell Hislop
June 16, 2010 at 1:28 pm
This is just a quick PSA post: 99% of the content I post here is going to be techinical, development-related, opinion, and decidely not personal news/updates. If that is what you ... (more)

Android 2.2 thoughts

From Mitchell Hislop
June 15, 2010 at 6:53 pm
I have been running the newest version of Android-2.2 a.k.a. FroYo), and I think it really might be the best phone OS out there. Random, unordered thoughts: Holy shit, this thing ... (more)

The Whole Privacy Debacle

From Mitchell Hislop
June 13, 2010 at 10:27 pm
So, tons of people have been all up in arms over privacy online. This is mainly headed by Facebook, but it comes up anytime information is shared, whether it is being shared with ... (more)

Super simple screen scraping in PHP

From Mitchell Hislop
June 7, 2010 at 11:20 pm
I recently put together V2 of the “Who’se Here” section for the CoCoMSP site. The first one, which I wrote several months ago, relied on Twitter posts from the ... (more)

Owners of Data

From Mitchell Hislop
April 28, 2010 at 1:48 am
Many people think that the next big leaders of the web are going to be the curators of data. While I agree, I think that you are overlooking a very important group. Data Owners. This ... (more)

Playing with @Anywhere

From Mitchell Hislop
April 14, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I will be testing, playing with, and quite possiably breaking @anywhere on this site tonight. So, hover over things with the @ symbol and we shall see how it works. For testing, ... (more)

iPhone 4.0 guesses

From Mitchell Hislop
April 7, 2010 at 10:39 am
So, tomorrow there is a preview event for iPhone 4.0. This is going to be a list of guesses, and will get updated for accuracy after the event. Also, you should leave your guesses ... (more)

Lacking Context

From Mitchell Hislop
March 31, 2010 at 11:33 pm
The other day, while writing code to work with Viralheat (for an SMCpros client), it hit me. The flaw, the thing that I dislike about ANY social media monitoring tool (although, ... (more)

Published Code

From Mitchell Hislop
March 28, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Over the last few weeks, I have been doing quite a lot of coding. I want to tell you about two of the bits I have written, that I am willing to release-some of it is under lock ... (more)

Grow up, and be honest with yourself

From
March 17, 2010 at 10:54 pm

I am going to take a brief (read-1 post) departue from my covering of tech and geeknees to bring something that I try not to up-the state of social media, the web, and MSP.
I have

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Why I am skipping sxsw

From Mitchell Hislop
March 10, 2010 at 11:30 am
Another year, another missed SXSW. But why? Why would a jetsetting, young, social interactive nerd and tech analyst skip a trip to Austin, TX in the middle of winter? Well, the ... (more)

links for 2010-03-08

From Mitchell Hislop
March 9, 2010 at 12:02 am
SEOmoz | Search Marketing Success Stories (tags: seo read/review SEM search) Related posts:links for 2009-12-26 SEOmoz | Link Consolidation: The New PageRank Sculpting (tags:... What ... (more)

Apple vs HTC: The gloves are off

From Mitchell Hislop
March 3, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Early this week, Apple slapped HTC with 20 patent infringements. Holy shit. As always, I want to give you the “why does this matter” angle. This is an interesting move ... (more)

Why I got the Droid

From Mitchell Hislop
February 27, 2010 at 2:16 am
So, I have now had my Droid for long enough to talk about it. And I love it. To get why it is so great for me, its important to realize that I live my daily life in Wordpress, ... (more)

Location based apps and privacy

From Mitchell Hislop
February 25, 2010 at 1:05 am
Over the few months, I have been putting two of the top location-based mobile applications through their paces in our fair cities. The contestants were Foursquare, the location-based ... (more)