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Archive for June, 2007

Music to Move

Translation From Wikipedia. It should be obvious where the Auferstein starts.

Rise again, yes, rise again,
Will you My dust,
After a brief rest!
Immortal life! Immortal life
Will He who called you, give you.
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Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” Samples Fiesta Latina

That’s right. It took me a while to figure it out… I knew I had heard that song before.

It’s Track #9 (Amores Como El Nuestro) on the magnum opus of Tropical Fantasia… Fiesta Latina

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Review: Safari Beta for Windows

I know it’s a beta, but with a first impression like this:

There’s no other choice.

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Database Connectivity With Linux & PHP to IBM iSeries & DB2

BACKGROUND
I work with a local government, where the majority of our existing information systems are on an IBM iSeries machine.
The entire city runs on what is referred to as “green screen” apps. I was charged with the task of bringing our municipal utility company’s bill payment online. Well, not exactly bringing it online… [...]

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Django Changed The Game

It all started with a pretty ordinary project request from our Parks & Recreation department – “we want to be able to enter/edit scores for our softball games.”
So, like any good developer, requested a meeting so I could really understand what was going on… it boiled down to this kind of these database entities:
teams
fields
leagues
venues
scheduled games
completed [...]

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Push != Pull, or Why You Should RTFM

My first idea for an F8 app has tanked. I should have read those docs a little further…
I was making a simple countdown, because lot of friends of mine used their status to count down to an event.

From the FAQ:
Is there a way I can avoid pushing content individually to each user?
You can specify [...]

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Help Me Test First F8 App

Last night I started making my first application based on Facebook’s F8 Platform.
It’s a simple countdown application – designed to just show up in your profile like this:

Here’s a screenshot of the main screen:

Help me test it. PM me on Facebook.

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