Bit of a blatant plug - the latest webdevradio.com podcast episode was put up tonight.  This was my first time experimenting with garageband on a mac.  I recorded the ‘intro’ with the same mic as the regular speech in the podcast, but they sound vastly different.  One was recorded direct to mac, and one was [...]

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Over at webdevradio, I’ve posted an hour long discussion I had with Keith Murphy, a local MySQL DBA.  He’s recently started at icontact.com, fast becoming one of the industry leaders in managed mailing lists and community communication tools.  I’ve known David Rasch, their CTO, for close to 2 years now, and have watched them grow [...]

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I had a quick interview with Prashant Deva from Placid Systems, talking about the upcoming Virtual Ant product.  Hopefully I will have this up on webdevradio.com in the next week.  It was about 15 minutes, with a couple fluff/testing minutes at the beginning  :)  Prashant was a pretty cool guy, and I wish we’d had [...]

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I put my latest webdevradio web development podcast out tonight.  I go in spurts - sometimes 2 (a few times even 3) in a month, then nothing for a bit.  I need to get more scheduled.  I’ve forgotten about half the things I’d wanted to talk about tonight - I thought I’d emailed them to [...]

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I was fortunate enough to catch the “Agile Testing Practices” talk by Jared Richardson last night at the trijug.  A couple colleagues wanted to attend, but couldn’t so I recorded it.  With Jared’s permission I’m linking to it here as an ogg file.  I cleaned it up with the ‘levelator’ program from gigavox, but it [...]

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Krut over at sourceforge looks pretty amazing.  About 18 months ago I found ‘wink’ which is a flash creation tool, and I’ve used it a few times for some small projects.  It works well enough but doesn’t account for audio.  You had to add sound later.  KRUT records audio and video at the same time, [...]

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I put up an interview with Joe Brinkman of the DotNetNuke project over at http://www.webdevradio.com. Grahame helped me clean up the audio (well, did some detective work really). About 15 seconds in to the interview (after I’d already done a sanity sound check) a distinct hum came in to the audio, and was [...]

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I’m in the midst of learning multiple new technologies, and I think I have to stop, or at least slow down. A personality trait I’ve had for a long time is taking on too many multiple projects at the same time, and in the last year or so I’ve been realizing it gets my [...]

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I’ve not seen any signs we’re quite there yet, though searching for “ical/ics” and “rss enclosure” does bring up some interesting ideas. In short, what I am hoping to see is something like the following:
When I’m authoring a blog entry, I can add specific event information (date/time/location/etc) which gets added to the RSS feed [...]

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Alfred’s a friend from a way back in Michigan (well, perhaps just a few years ago) who’s also in to open source technology, and overall a sharp guy.  He interviewed me for a podcast he produces, and it’s finally ‘up’ for listening.  We chatted some time ago - September I think, so I’d nearly forgotten [...]

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