Signing Amazon Web Service Requests in ActionScript
Amazon.com announced a change to its Product Advertising API requiring all requests after August 15, 2009 to be signed. I’d been meaning to update one of the Scannerfly example applications and the...
View ArticleThe How and Why of Barcamp
We’re on our final approach to next month’s Barcamp Vancouver which is shaping up nicely due to the contributions of many volunteers and a list of wonderful sponsors. But one thing bothers me – any...
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Ask Yourself: Should I Build This?
A couple of years ago, I heard Guy Kawasaki talk about how the thing that defined Silicon Valley was its “what the hell, let’s build it” attitude. It took me a while to get it, but I came round to...
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Treehugging: You’re Doing It Wrong
I saw this faucet in a local mall in Vancouver, and it took me a moment to realize it wasn’t a joke. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you: What you’re seeing is a solar-powered electronic faucet, complete...
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BookCamp Vancouver 2009 Wrapup
The atmosphere at this weekend’s excellent BookCamp Vancouver 2009 was quite different than other unconferences I’ve attended in the past. For one thing, people there were taking notes using pencil and...
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Device That Reads Books
Intel reminded us this week that we are, by 1960′s issues of Popular Mechanics standards, living in The Future. Check out the little device above…know what it does? It reads book…from photos. You snap...
View ArticleTwitter Hacked
Hmph, how do you tell the world when Twitter is down? Oh right, when a broadcast-style system fails, the single-point-of-failure brings everything down. Well. Good-night then!
View ArticleRails 3 on Dreamhost via Capistrano
Dreamhost has started rolling out Rails 3.0.3 to its servers; however, there’s a couple of snags that may prevent you from quickly and easily deploying a Rails app. I’ve spent the better part of a...
View ArticleThe Death of “Stuff”
With our recent move to Silicon Valley, I indulged one of my guilty pleasures: getting rid of stuff. While I know this vice smacks of OCD, there is nothing I enjoy more than rummaging through the stuff...
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Three Features That Spotify Needs
For Christmas, Ashley gave me a Premium subscription to Spotify (the “all you can eat” music subscription service). I’ve been really impressed with the quality of the music, the selection, and the...
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Stop Blaming Users For Bad Passwords
Another year, another vendor study about how users choose absurdly bad passwords to protect their precious online accounts. This year’s study came courtesy of Keeper, while prior years’ reports (for...
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Worried About Face ID?
There’s been a lot of noise in the two weeks since Apple announced the new iPhone X and its new Face ID solution. Much real and virtual ink has been spilled about the technology’s dire consequences for...
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