Monthly Archives: September 2008

New York Times releasing document viewer, missing the point

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris Heisel

[E-media Tidbits](http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31) is reporting that the [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com) is [releasing an open-source document viewer](http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=150665). To be fully buzzword compliant it’s both built in [Ruby on Rails](http://www.rubyonrails.org/) and there’ll be [Amazon EC2 instances available](http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011). (Actually the EC2 instance is kind … Continue reading →

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Django in the Enterprise

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Chris Heisel

Long-time readers [know](http://heisel.org/blog/2005/06/21/best-quote-on-enterprise-development/) of my [dislike](http://heisel.org/blog/2005/04/09/enterprise-its-not-just-a-crappy-tv-show/) for the word [enterprise](http://heisel.org/blog/2005/01/11/thought-of-the-day-enterprise/), but the truth is that many of us work for just such a beast. Luckily I get to use [Django](htttp://djangoproject.com) at my [job](http://www.ajc.com) and I thought I’d share what little … Continue reading →

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Rocky Mountain News ‘Tweets’ the funeral of 3-year old boy killed in ice cream shop

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Chris Heisel

Rocky Mountain News ‘Tweets’ the funeral of 3-year old boy killed in ice cream shop – Journalism FAIL. Decency FAIL. Getting it FAIL. (via The Colorado Independent )

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Mollom

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Chris Heisel

Mollom – Interesting anti-spam service that's similar to Akismet. Instead of simply tagging it spam or ham, it'll also allow "unsure" comments to be challenged with a captcha. Developed by the Drupal folks but it works with WordPress and it … Continue reading →

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Postalicious

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Chris Heisel

Postalicious – I'm trying this out in lieu of my own abandonware WordPre.cio.us, if it works I'll probably kill WordPre.cio.us.

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