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Tools for Co-Working Spaces

Souk Co-Working Space I recently spent some time at Souk, a co-working space in Portland. It’s a great space with lots of room and lots of light, which is important when you’re going to spend hours on end somewhere. Over the course of a couple days, it became apparent that there are several tools that can help facilitate the coming and going of people in spaces like these. CloudKnock is an...

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How to Distribute your iOS Apps Over the Air

We’ve been using Apple’s Wireless distribution method for sending out beta invites of Geoloqi. It’s a much easier process for our beta testers than syncing with iTunes to install the app! They just click on a link from their phones, and they can download the app immediately! How, you ask? Apple has made this possible since iOS 4.0, but not many developers have noticed it’s...

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I had a dream last night where I was an XCode project

I had a dream last night where I was an XCode project. Every time the alarm went off, that was running “Build and Run.” If I would fail to compile, I’d have to fix the errors and try again. The next time the alarm went off, I’d attempt to “run” again, and I kept failing to compile a few times when I kept hitting “snooze.” The last thing I did before I...

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Infinity Mathematicians Walk Into a Bar

Infinity mathematicians walk into a bar. The first orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third orders a quarter beer, etc etc. How long until the bartender runs out of beer? First person to answer correctly with a full explanation gets a free beer next time we meet.

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How to build a multi-user Delicious clone with WordPress and Delicious XML Exporter

If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a lot of bookmarks saved on Delicious. If you’re not, you might know someone who does. With Delicious going offline, the question is where people are going to be taking their Delicious bookmarks? If you have a Delicious account (created after the Yahoo! acquisition), your only download option is a html download exporting to browser bookmarks. This...

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Why do I use Tropo over Twilio?

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. AIM, Yahoo IM, MSN, Jabber and Twitter! In addition to sending SMSs and calling phone numbers, Tropo...

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Tracking typos of your domain name in Google Analytics

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...