Reactivating Google Voice

Recently my I had to reset all my network settings on my iPhone due to some dropped calls. This also deactivated Google Voice.
To reset Google Voice do this:
1) Login to Google Voice
2) Click “Deactivate Voicemail” under the phone line you want to fix.
3) Click Done
4) Click Active Voicemail and enter the number to dial.
Then [...]

May 3, 2010

gRaphaël Charts are pretty

This was a fun example of playing with the gRaphael charts from http://g.raphaeljs.com/

December 8, 2009

Raphaël JavaScript Test

I ran across http://raphaeljs.com and it looked very appealing/impressive, so I thought I’d try it out. Raphaël is a JavaScript Vector Library that allows cross-browser drawing and animation of vector shapes dead simple. All you need to do to use it is to reference the raphael.js file in the head section of your HTML document [...]

November 19, 2009

Ruby Simple RSS Reader

Today I had to use some Ruby code to create an RSS Reader to import our Typepad blog into our Rails Template.
Check it out below. It’s crazy simple:

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<%
require ‘rubygems’
require ’simple-rss’
require ‘open-uri’
rss = SimpleRSS.parse open(’http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15248843.rss’)
%>
 
<% rss.items.each do |i| %>
<h3><%= i.title %></a></h3>
<p><%= i.summary %></p>
<a href="<%= i.link %>" target="_blank">Link [...]

November 19, 2009

Testing stuff

I’m messing with a custom layout. So things might get messy up in hurr

August 22, 2009

Twitter as an information resource

A couple of my friends don’t quite understand the value of Twitter so I thought I’d write a short blog to go over how to use Twitter as an informational resource.
What the #$@! is Twitter
Twitter is a blog that allots the same amount of characters as a text message, so the posts are short and [...]

June 5, 2009

iPhone 3.0 stuff

The new iPhone 3.0 is set to come out in June but if you have a developer account and give Apple a lot of money they will let you download the 3.0 beta to test your apps against for the 3. software. Rather than say all the boring stuff here are some features they added [...]

April 21, 2009

Microformats

I really didn’t know much about microformats before Thomas gave me CSS Artistry by Andy Clarke. I couldn’t figure out why the author dedicated SO much attention to Microformats. I’ve learned they are great for CSS styling and for their main purpose, reusing HTML elements to convey metadata.
For example, the most common of microformats would [...]

April 10, 2009