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2011 Trends in Computing : Extreme Mobile

Posted on 30 May, 2011 by Ian — No Comments ↓

That Mobile is a trend should be a surprise to no one, but Mobile in 2011 looks a lot different from what it looked like in 2000. It’s going to look even more different in 2015. In 2000 mobile was Continue reading →

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Rails Migration Rollback with compound indexes fail and fix

Posted on 18 May, 2011 by Ian — No Comments ↓

This is for Ruby on Rails 2.5.x, and MySQL 5, and the MySQL2 gem (there is a problem with mysql2-0.3.2. and rails 3.0.x, but using 0.2.7 for Ruby 2.5.x and 3.0.x is good). I do hope to test some of Continue reading →

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Twendr – Now in 70 more Locations

Posted on 20 April, 2011 by Ian — No Comments ↓

on Monday April 11 Twitter rolled out 70 more locations to the previous 42 location (the “World”, 20 Counties and 21 Cities) . Thankfully I had planed for this and it was trivial to to import and support the new Continue reading →

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How to block visits to your site in Google Analytics

Posted on 7 April, 2011 by Ian — 1 Comment ↓

Tracking visits to a given website is a necessary SEO (Search Engine Optimization) function for many projects in order to determine “How I’m I doing” (for ROI) and “Where is everyone coming from” (for url referral and keyword). A common Continue reading →

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Japan’s literature of the apocalypse, a essay

Posted on 26 March, 2011 by Ian — No Comments ↓

“Another sort of coping takes place at the imaginative level.” Professor of contemporary Japanese literature Ted Goossen has an eaasy in this Saturdays Globe and Mail :Japan’s literature of the apocalypse From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 25, Continue reading →

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