http://blogs.blackacid.org Experiments in Real Time Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:08:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the brain running in low gear after exploring ideas and concepts with people all day, I decided to do something silly by running through all domains that had port 80 open from a to z in the .com tld namespace. Results are as follows. http://www.q.com -> Qwest http://www.x.com -> Paypal's ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2009/01/03/alphabet-soup-com/ Developing an IVR can immediately be a daunting task if you have not had any experience doing so before. To simplify it, Twilio.com came up with a solution that takes the complicated choices in technology away from the project. You will immediately start to think about your call ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2008/12/10/building-an-ivr-with-twilio/ I rarely get to sit down at my home machine and make something for my own use these days. I've always been interested in working with xmms and now these days xmms2. I built a plugin years ago that would dump audio information via http. These days ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2008/11/30/xmms2-and-python/ To my left is a kickass compiler poet named Gopal Vijay(shortened). I worked with Gopal when I just started to learn compilers and frameworks on the DotGNU Project. He understands what hard work is, as does Rhys Weatherly, the original author of Portable.NET. Both of them had ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2007/11/21/code-poetry-its-an-art/ I was recently following a thread on the php-dev list that intrigued me enough to write about a new syntax feature for PHP. Sam Barrow recently posted a patch about optional scalar value type hinting that got me thinking that it was a smart approach to making php even more structured, ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2007/11/20/dynamic-scalar-type-hinting-on-php6/ Since recent times have suggested to me that I better start putting a good collection of code online about how the things I create work, I need to start with a better syntax highlighter which is so important to explaining how things work in this world. I started off using google's ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2007/11/18/wordpress-syntax-highlighting-phase-2/ Hey Guys,   It's been quite a few weeks since I last posted.  I thought I would update you on my current tinker toys that I do during the day.  I'm a full time CTO/Developer as well as Partner with BestPartyEver.com.  After quite a bit of busy weeks developing we have ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2007/10/24/bestpartyevercom-development/ The Pareto Principle Economist Vilfredo Pareto found in 1897 that about 80 percent of Italy's wealth was owned by about 20 percent of the population.8 This has become the 80/20 rule or the Pareto principle, which is often applied ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2007/09/26/pareto-principle/ I've been in the web industry way too long, when I can date back to when image maps and things such as scrolling tags were prevelent and widely used among popular sites, sadly.  Coming from a C background, web dev was cake, but introduction of technologies for style seperation and ... http://blogs.blackacid.org/2007/08/16/losing-the-headache-in-grid-based-layouts-blueprint-css/ I'm testing out this cool js based wp plugin. foreach($bastards as $retard) { $life->addFailuresIQRates($retard->get("iq_test_scores")); } http://blogs.blackacid.org/2007/08/08/google-code-prettify-for-wordpress/