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January 2008 - Posts

Monday, January 28, 2008 6:07 PM

SEAMonster Loosed to CodePlex

Well, I had good intentions. Ever since my first post about SEAMonster in October, 2007, I've wanted to refactor and clean-up the code for release. In the meantime, I've received many, many e-mails asking when that would happen. To everyone who has patiently
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:47 PM

Helvetica: The Documentary

I ran across Jeff Atwood 's blog post, Typography: Where Engineers and Designers Meet , about a week ago. Like Jeff, I've been interested in fonts and typography for a long time. As a matter of fact, I used to create bitmap fonts for the TI-99/4a, Commodore
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 7:57 PM

What Do I Do? Top sites, MIX08, and PDC08.

A few days ago, I received the following e-mail: Help me out here. I've been reading your blog off and on for years and I can't figure out what it is you do. Your obviously involved with the PDC and MIX conferences, you send a lifesize cardboard cutout
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Monday, January 14, 2008 9:20 PM

Programming Collective Intelligence

I tend to read a lot of books , and most of them have a technical focus. Every once and awhile, I run across a gem that is timely, coherent, unique, and well written. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran
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Monday, January 14, 2008 8:02 PM

Return of The Spider King

As many long-time readers may recall, I've been trying to foist blogging onto my friend and colleague, Thomas Lewis, for nearly three years. He's endured my chiding both online and in person; thank goodness he's one of those guys who can take my constant
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Friday, January 04, 2008 9:22 PM

MIX08 Contests

Let's kick off the new year with a post about our upcoming MIX08 event in Las Vegas . This is the third year for this annual conference, and we've found ourselves with a unique problem: we have so much great content that we've had to say "no" to a lot
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