Ok, sometimes my brain checks out before letting the rest of my body know to stop coding. When that happens, the results are frustrating.

That makes two magazine articles this year and I’ll miss my other goal for the year, a book published, by a month or so.

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I’ve been working on a project for a while now and it’s finally ready for testing. Queuebuddy.com started life as a way to help me keep track of movies I want to see but don’t feel like paying to see in the theater. (If you are really curious, email me, I’ll give you [...]

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A while back, I built a cute little toy that let you track UPS packages on a Google map. My original title for this was “Where the hell is my stuff?” but since I wanted it to be more family friendly, I titled it “My First Mashup“.
Since then, I’ve presented this talk 3 [...]

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Elvis H. Presley! why does Microsoft have to make up their own rules for everything? Why, just for once, can’t they play nice and do things the way everybody else does? Nope, they’ve got to do things just enough different so that I have to make work-arounds.
Ok, here’s the scenario I hit upon tonight [...]

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As previously described, I’m now at The Ajax Experience. I have to say that I’m very impressed with the professionalism. From the handling of the speakers to the clockwork precision by which each event occurs, it is truly a well run conference.
It’s also a great conference content wise, not because I [...]

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It’s DONE! My presentation for The AJAX Experience is complete, slides have been emailed and all my code works!
For those just joining us, I’m speaking next week at The AJAX Experience in Boston. I’ll be presenting “My First Mashup”. It’s the little UPS/Googlemaps thingy I talked about earlier. It’s going to [...]

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Since it was requested, here is a screenshot of the page in action.
This is a package that came to me recently. Just so you know, packages can be tracked for up to 365 days after delivery. (I guess that’s in case you forgot you got it.)
Anyhow, I’m working on the AJAX version [...]

…and now for my FIRST trick, see where your UPS package is!

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