Aaron Parecki

Many people keep asking me why I use Tropo instead of Twilio. It seems that Twilio does a great job of getting the word out about their service, so many people end up using them first. But there are a few reasons I'm using Tropo instead. Basically it comes down to features, scalability and support.

Say you want to register a couple different typos of your domain name, and redirect everyone seamlessly to the correct site. This can be done quite easily in Apache using ServerAlias and a simple RewriteRule. I just registered geoloqui.com after noticing a couple articles linking to it instead of geoloqi.com. But then I thought, wouldn’t it be useful if I could track these typos and see which ones are most common? Turns out it’s not difficult!

On the weekend of December 4th and 5th, people gathered in coworking spaces around the world for the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon. In Seattle, two teams worked on Population Centers in Disaster, and Mobile Assessment of Damage for the Public.

Summary

Dropbox is great. Most of the time. It's great when I need to easily share files with people while working on a project together. It keeps files in sync between multiple computers, and is the only solution I've found so far which works seamlessly and instantaneously. If you don't already use it, I highly recommend it.

Receive notifications to an IRC channel when posts are published or comments are posted. Configuration page allows for customizing the text sent to the IRC channel.

A short guide to setting up MediaWiki to work on multiple websites using the same codebase.

I haven't used Dreamweaver since 2002 and don't regret it for a minute. On the other hand, I?ve been struggling to find a good IDE for PHP/HTML/Javascript development for a very long time.

A rough outline of my trip to San Francisco for the eComm conference. Will be taking notes here as plans solidify.

Originally posted on oakhazelnut.com by Amber Case

@twaddington sparked a Twitter debate when he tweeted

Rough notes from the talk at pdx web innovators on 2/1/10 presented by Marshall Kirkpatrick

Quick summary: Automatically bookmark a site after it has been open for a certain amount of time.

At a recent meeting, I was asked to explain open-source licenses to people who had not heard much of them before. I only had about 5 minutes because I had to rush off to another meeting immediately after. I was, however, able to touch on a few key points in the 5 minutes I was given, and help them understand a bit more. This page is an attempt to provide you with enough information to give your own 5-minute explanation.

I've been logging GPS data for about a year and a half. I use an app on my Windows Mobile phone to log the GPS data, and my phone has a wifi antenna that stays in the "off" position most of the time. I met with @donpdonp the other day and he introduced me to the geomena.org project. I realized it should be possible to log access points along with my existing GPS logging. It was easy to install Airomap on my phone, so now I can log wifi points too!

A recap of all the things Google has announced in this first week of December. The big ones are Google Goggles, new versions of Chrome, and real time searching, but they've also launched some less flashy things like a dictionary and public DNS service.

The 85-year-old tree isn't expected to live after a group of strangers hacked off many of its branches

Jetblue doesn't fly in to Ithaca, but they do fly in to Syracuse. Jennifer was nice enough to pick me up from the Syracuse airport. It's only 55 miles, but it feels a lot farther than that. Ithaca is kind of tucked away in the middle of nowhere, but it has like a dozen highways leading into it.

The Apartment

I took the bus from the Pittsburgh airport to downtown, then caught a bus from downtown to Silas' place. Of course since it was the second day of the G20, they had a big chunk of downtown completely blocked off with roadblocks and police. I've never seen so many different kinds of security in one place. City police, military, riot squad, private security, roadblocks, barbed-wire fences.