Thanks to the extra time provided by the holiday, I’ve finally put together a release of FreeTime 3, a pet project of mine for more than 10 years. This newest release is based on work I did on the software at Clear Ink from 2006 through 2009. Thanks to David Burk and Steven Nelson for [...]
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Annoying Anti-Piracy for Book from Manning
May 28th, 2009
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I bought Zend Framework in Action yesterday because the short tutorial isn’t quite enough to know how to architect an big application. I’m building an enterprise app at work for a client and picked ZF and YUI as core platforms. I’m pleased with the content of the book. Rob Allen is a fine writer and [...]
New MySpace Apps: Random Band Names and Random Advice
January 22nd, 2009
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I now have two apps live on MySpace, Random Advice and Random Band Names. The core functionality is exactly the same as what’s on Leon’s Random Generators. Both of them place content on your MySpace profile. You can see them in action on my profile page, myspace.com/leonatkinson. It’s somewhat obtuse to get the apps on [...]
Track Your Migraines on Facebook
January 6th, 2009
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Many people suffer from migraines, a kind of storm in the brain that causes more than just headaches. I am one of those people. After I’d heard Mark Zuckerberg speak at last year’s Facebook developers conference, it occurred to me that sharing the experience might fit with his vision to give people the power to [...]
Facebook Platform Team Are Thankful
December 22nd, 2008
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What a nice surprise! As a developer on the Facebook platform for more than a year, I get occational messages from Facebook about new features, such as the revolutionary Facebook Connect functionality that went live recently. I was pleasantly surprised to find a note from the Platform Team thanking all 600K+ developers! We wanted to [...]
