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Monthly Archives: May 2008

The problem with wikis and blogs… is it really that hard to build a contextual system?

Ok ever since I went to wiki wed with ward (say that 10 times…), I’ve really been thinking of content storage devices and how they relate. Everything that I can think of really revolve around 3 basic aspects: Delivery : broadcast vs point-to-point (is the reader known at writing?) collaborative vs dictatorial (can the reader [...]

Some days are just better then others

DKW_0121 Originally uploaded by ben_hengst I kinda wish that I had something witty to say, some nugget of knowledge to pass on to the world. Sadly today is just another day at the office. I keep mullling over building a moose-based lite web framework. A quick stitch of moose + CGI::Simple + some DB/ORM + [...]

if a wiki is a meal then take smaller bytes

Ok bad pun, but really the big idea that I really took away from this past Wiki Wednesday was that the wiki as it stands now is alot of editable content, but the chunks are too big. Thanks to the coaxing of sam the code poet I’ve been thinking of how to best go about [...]

ack example: find method names

One of the tests that I have in my default perl test template is a can_ok that I just push a list to all the methods of this object to so that I know when something changes. It’s simple, it’s easy and it’s super effective. If this breaks then that is a huge redflag that [...]

pocket sized $200 projector.

So I’m not convinced that this will have the best picture, but it sure will beat the running around to find a projector at FreeGeek. It makes me really wish that I had a few bucks to throw at this thing for research reasons. product page

Where to take the wiki

Ok I guess I’ve been inspired by the wiki, I had every intent to really just take these notes and really translate them in to a useful post…. alas it’s 10 and I’m nappy… so I guess harass me in the comments and I’ll comply. [wiki where to go from here] – what is the [...]

welcome back to the wagon

So I have a very temperamental blogging habit, I know that I should share some of these crazy ideas in my head, I know that I should be better… and then I go to bed and it’s a new day all over again and some things just just didn’t make it past the nap. So [...]

ok so things went boom

for all of the 2 people that ever end up here, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that things went boom. I really should be keeping this whole site thing up to date better… So lets kick start version 3 of this here site off… wait for it. *kick*