July 2009
8 posts
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More on Push
I just came across this little iPhone app that displays Growl notifications on your phone that originate from your computer’s Growl-compliant app. It’s called Prowl, and it’s exactly what I had in mind when I wrote my little piece on iPhone Push notification two weeks ago. Had Apple chosen to allow 3rd party background apps in favor of its notification service, this kind of...
Jul 8th
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Poor Man's Guide: Deployment with Git (and GitHub)
Git is one of those things that when you learn it, you start looking for reasons to use it. I would describe it as frictionless version control. Although the king of nerdy, abrasive verbosity, Linus Torvalds explains it as really just a filesystem—it’s the way that you use it, through its minimal, command-line interface that makes Git so efficient. The technical stuff I’m not...
Jul 7th
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Poor Man's Guide: Twitter Integration
I was just researching quick ways to integrate a one of my latest Flipswap projects with Twitter when I ran across this obvious, yet non-obvious thing. You can construct a URL that pre-populates the update field with any text you like. It works like this (click it for full affect/effect): http://twitter.com/home?status=Yeatblog+rocks+my+face+off. The craziest thing about this...
Jul 6th
Autocross Wrap-up
Autocrossed today with Maggie in tow. We had a lot of fun and met some cool people. I’m left with some disappointment though—seems like this time I didn’t get a chance to learn something. Ninety-six cars ran today which only gave time for four 50s runs through the course. That’s one or two laps to “learn” the course and a few to try to get competitive time. The...
Jul 6th
These Jeans Died for Our Freedom
Checkout even more radical family photos. Happy 4th of July internet.
Jul 4th
Jul 3rd
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Tale of the Tape
Regarding my upcoming autocross event at GVSU in a newly sponsored BMW, I thought it would be interesting to compare technical stats from my first autocross at WMAA. Event Then: WMAA Autocross, May 17th, 2009 Now: GVSU Autocross, July 5th, 2009 Vehicle Then: 1985 BMW 318i (E30) Now: 2002 BMW 330ci (E46) Classification Then: HS (H Stock) Now: DSP (D Street Prepared) Vehicle Horspower &...
Jul 2nd
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Flipswap is Sponsoring #20
Lately I’ve been going to Gingerman Raceway for the weekly Test and Tune event and I’ve raced in an autocross event with an older BMW. Although track driving and autocross are completely different styles, they have one thing in common: go as fast as possible. The problem with my older BMW was that it was slow and didn’t have the greatest handling (though for its time, it was...
Jul 1st