End Your If

Category: Social

  • A Fancier Twitter Timeline

    I truly enjoy the finer things in life.  For example, if I’m going to eat a steak I don’t want some fatty low grade piece of meat.  I would much rather (in this case, spend the additional money) to get an AAA grade of meat.  The taste is worth it.

    The same is true with development; the Twitter Timeline is “nice”, but I personally don’t want a linear, scrollable representation of my Tweets!  I want the AAA grade where in this case it just takes a little bit more time instead of money…  As you can see above, my Tweets are sliding in and out every 7.5 seconds.  Once it cycles through my latest 10, it restarts again.

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  • Random Funny Technology Videos

    I was surfing the Interweb recently and came across some cool/funny videos that I thought I would share:

    Amazing iPod Trick

    http://www.break.com/index/amazing-ipod-trick-1984104
    This video turns a black iPod into a white iPod.  I’m not sure if I would personally want to try this, but it sure looks cool afterwords.

    Roombas Hack to Play Pac-Man

    http://www.ohgizmo.com/2011/01/11/roombas-playing-pac-man/
    Excellent use of a vacuum and great way to promote it’s cleaning skills by “finding” dirt.

    Image Translating iPhone App

    http://www.techi.com/2010/12/image-translating-iphone-app/
    This is one of the coolest apps ever.  Show a road sign or some picture with words and watch it translate the text in the image for you right on your iPhone!

    Facebok Profile Picture Hack Tutorial

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhvJqGgzmoQ
    The new profile displays pictures from your last album on the top of your profile, watch this video to make it a sequence of photos splitting your features across multiple images.

  • Maintaining a session in a session-less environment

    Confused?  I know I was at first, but let me explain.  First, why would there be a session-less environment?  I thought this was a HUGE plus to server-side development languages over basic HTML that is session-less?  Well, you would be right in that sense; however, as I mentioned in a recent blog that I’ve switched careers and I am currently doing server-side game development for large Facebook Virtual Worlds.  The client/server relationship in these games are completely session-less.  Each time the client performs an action, the server doesn’t “know” who they are because it’s not a consistent relationship like a browser and a web server.

    Don’t worry, there is a simple solution to this problem, let’s explore it now. (more…)

  • Someone at work tick you off?

    I don’t know about you, but there are many times during a work week where someone ticks me off.  It could be something small or something major.

    I’ve always wondered what I could do about this, so I finally did something.

    I created a Facebook application called Head Slap!  It let’s you type in your friend’s name on Facebook and give them a slap on the head.  Enter a personalized message letting them know why they deserve it!

  • Twitter, are you taking advantage yet?

    I’m sure you are well aware of Twitter by now.  If you are not, perhaps you should crawl out of the hole in the crowd and begin checking out the latest fad on the Internet!  People are absolutely obsessed with Twitter right now.  There are a million sites out there on how to make money on Twitter, how to find followers on Twitter, etc…

    Over the past two months I have been receiving some traffic from Twitter.  Nothing major, just a few visits a day here and there, so it never really caught my attention.  At work, my boss wants to jump on the band wagon with Twitter and check it out and see what we can do.  Being a web development firm it’s important to be able to develop in the various API’s for the hot trends, e.g. iPhone, Blackberry, Facebook, Twitter, etc…

    So, I began looking into it a bit more.  I signed up for my blog; you can follow me here if you like: http://twitter.com/endyourif (more…)