I may not be able to explain how cool this is, but I’m going to try.
Right now I’m working on a replacement for the nasty VBScript I posted a while back that updates the software installed on the computers at work. Sure, the script did it’s job but it wasn’t pretty to look at and [...]
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A few days back, I mentioned that I wanted to query my Facebook social graph in order to pull out a list of my friends’ websites. Why? To put the in my blog roll. Anyway, I was doing a little light reading today and came across some interesting posts centering around a topic I’ve read [...]
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Ladies and gentlemen, today I would like to direct your attention to the new link in the right side bar entitled “Programs and Scripts.” This page will contain handy bits of code developed by myself (or any of my esteemed colleagues) and presented here for your programming gratification!
The inaugural bit of code available here is [...]
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But I can’t. Let me explain.
Facebook offers a developer API that allows programmers to use the data stored by Facebook. One of the neat features is called “Facebook Query Language,” and allows you to execute queries on the data provided by Facebook, as if it were a giant database (oh, wait, it is). Earlier this [...]
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This has been a busy but great week. I’ll be back with more detail on some of these events, but I gave a presentation last night (which went really well, and the video and other information will be online soon), helped a friend assemble a new computer today, I’ve been in the gym three days [...]
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On January 16, 2008, I, Matthew Smith, will be delivering a presentation for STC on the use of wikis in collaborative writing projects. This presentation will be based on a shorter presentation I gave for one of my technical communications classes last year. I don’t have the final details on the presentation yet (aside from [...]
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My friend David just sent me an interesting email about the Apple MacBook and its hidden wireless capabilities. From David:
This is funny. Apparently I can upgrade my MacBook to add the 802.11n wireless standard for $2, no joke. Apparently Apple has been shipping their computers with hidden wireless n capabilities. They had [...]
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on an extensive project for my Aunt (there will be more details on that one later) and have been putting my lovely computer through the paces. I must say, the beastly Core2Quad definitely gets work done! I would like two more gigs of ram, but thats for [...]
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