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Geek 'N Me. Jim Kass's Geekery, Randomness and Things Useful… or Not. Surface – First Impressions. June 19, 2012. Welcome to the ever-expanding and evolving “mobile device” market. Yesterday Microsoft announced their tablet. It’s just a teaser announcement designed to get the technorati talking, and of course until anyone has hands on one they can’t really give this product a proper review. But here are a few thoughts that have come to my mind after today’s announcement. Yet none of these things requires...
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My Opensource Radar | Geek 'N Me
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Geek 'N Me. Jim Kass's Geekery, Randomness and Things Useful… or Not. October 6, 2011. It seems like forever since I last posted a blog entry. This is less that I haven’t written, just that I haven’t published. It’s difficult for me to “stay focused” sometimes when there is simply so much happening so quickly in the open source community around me. My big problem seems to be there’s so many great product ideas, but I only have a limited amount of time to build one, so I need to choose something tha...
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4 out of 5 Burglars Prefer Facebook? | Geek 'N Me
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Geek 'N Me. Jim Kass's Geekery, Randomness and Things Useful… or Not. 4 out of 5 Burglars Prefer Facebook? 4 out of 5 Burglars Prefer Facebook? October 6, 2011. The link: http:/ www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/social-burglars b14237. Also, note that I’ve broken down my thoughts here into digestible bits. While I don’t refute the study, I think the findings of 50 admitted criminals asked their opinion about social networking risk doesn’t seem very reliable evidence of anything other than the ub...In fact, ...
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First Adventures in Ruby and the Rails | Geek 'N Me
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Geek 'N Me. Jim Kass's Geekery, Randomness and Things Useful… or Not. First Adventures in Ruby and the Rails. First Adventures in Ruby and the Rails. June 5, 2010. That’s of course quite a ridiculous assumption, as everyone who built on rails stayed on rails, despite the overhead, and tremendous resource inefficiencies. It seems once you drink the cool aid…. They mentioned Heroku, which is a cloud-based rails deployment and hosting service, however it seems the book was a bit out of date, as the interfac...
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Facebook’s Future | Geek 'N Me
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Geek 'N Me. Jim Kass's Geekery, Randomness and Things Useful… or Not. May 30, 2012. As anyone who has read a news article or listened to the same would know, Facebook went public. But it wasn’t the next Google, with soaring IPO stock pricing, and ordinary Joe’s turning overnight into millionaires. There’s a lot of reasons for that, but I’ll leave that topic for another time. Isn’t Facebook just a passing fad? SSO – The Holy Grail. Why should anyone care? Facebook isn’t the only company that works t...
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RubyonRails’ ActiveRecord vs. Django’s ORM | Geek 'N Me
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Geek 'N Me. Jim Kass's Geekery, Randomness and Things Useful… or Not. RubyonRails’ ActiveRecord vs. Django’s ORM. RubyonRails’ ActiveRecord vs. Django’s ORM. June 5, 2010. I’ve just recently started to explore Rails, Ruby and ActiveRecord. There’s a lot to be said about the transparency of ActiveRecord, as it keeps your code relatively clean, and makes it very easy to quickly deploy database driven sites. My recommendation is to use Rails to rapidly prototype your application, then migrate it to django.
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Surface – First Impressions | Geek 'N Me
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Geek 'N Me. Jim Kass's Geekery, Randomness and Things Useful… or Not. Surface – First Impressions. Surface – First Impressions. June 19, 2012. Welcome to the ever-expanding and evolving “mobile device” market. Yesterday Microsoft announced their tablet. Tablet PCs are nothing new, so what’s so amazing about Surface? Typical examples would be the “Droid” TV commercials. Which always show a futuristic looking phone, lots of explosions, robots, crazy action, and high production value. What bothers me is...
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