From Mitchell Hislop
November 8, 2010 at 1:52 pm
About 3 months ago, I built a webapp for a client. It is an app that lives on Facebook, as well as on its own microsite. It is a PHP/MySQL app, running on a LAMP stack.
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From Mitchell Hislop
October 21, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Over the summer, I have been working with the guys at Foursquare to make a wordpress plugin that would allow the easy addition of tips and todos from a blog post within wordpress.
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From Mitchell Hislop
October 20, 2010 at 8:36 am
I had a thought the other day when i was packing my bag for a day of travel. In my man purse, i had my android phone, a first gen iPod touch, my MacBook, and my iPad. This day ... (
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From Mitchell Hislop
October 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm
I have been having this idea recently. There are a bunch of angels out there ready to invest in companies. I also want to do this-I run into founders all the time, and would love ... (
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From Mitchell Hislop
October 12, 2010 at 10:39 pm
There was an event this week during one of my classes that really got me pissed. Therefore, I am blogging.
In one of my Computer Science classes, we were having trouble accessing ... (
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From Mitchell Hislop
October 4, 2010 at 10:52 pm
I was doing some thinking last night about Google accounts. I think that Google really needs to rework them:
Many people have multiple GMail accounts
Many GMail accounts are owned ... (
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From Mitchell Hislop
October 4, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Within the last few months, there have been some new entries to the Mac mail application world. Three that I use are Mailplane, Notify, and Sparrow. All of these apps are of a ... (
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From Mitchell Hislop
September 19, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Last Update: 9/19/10
Legend: (a) means the link is an affiliate, (p) means I pay for the service
Computer/Gadgets:
Laptop: 13″ MacBook mid 2008 2.4GHz Core 2 duo, 4GB ram, ... (
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From Mitchell Hislop
September 17, 2010 at 12:54 pm
I would like to interrupt my normal techno-babble to let you know of a few bits of offline news:
1) I will be speaking at WordCampMSP! I am doing a session on analytics, tentatively titled ... (
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From Mitchell Hislop
September 7, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Today’s SCWTOTD is a double-decker of web awesomeness. Both happen to relate to Android, which is my phone OS of choice (Disclaimer: I pay Google for things, I get into Google ... (
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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 ... (
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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 ... (
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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 ... (
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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 ... (
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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.
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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 ... (
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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 ... (
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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 ... (
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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 ... (
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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 ... (
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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.
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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:
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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 ... (
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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 ... (
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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.
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