Inconsistent Results with the Twitter API

Getting inconsistent results with the Twitter API? I found this gem in Twitter API documentation: Lastly, there may be times in which the rate limit values that we return are inconsistent, or cases where no headers are returned at all....

/ November 12, 2014

Microsoft At Work

My first project at Microsoft was to guide the requirements and end user design for fax machines running Windows. One of the challenges was working with very early, expensive, inaccurate touch screen technology circa 1993. You can learn a bit...

/ November 5, 2014

Elise Blaha Cripe: How to Start a New Project – World Domination Summit

Elise Blaha Cripe gave a great speech at this past July’s World Domination Summit on how to start projects you don’t know how to do. “You just do. You do it before you know the outcome. You start before you...

/ November 3, 2014

Huge WordPress Hosting Promotion at WPEngine

Visit WPEngine and use the code “WPEWSD14” at checkout. – expires Friday, Nov. 14, 2014 at midnight GMT. The personal plan is only $40 annually, a fantastic bargain. Consultants can host 10 large sites for $61 monthly or 25 sites for...

/ October 30, 2014

Followup Q&A to Geekwire Commentary on The Seattle Times and the FBI

I received a handful of good questions and comments in response to my Geekwire commentary: Outrage over FBI’s online tactics highlights knee-jerk Internet culture (also on Slashdot). I made some additional inquiries to Media Spokesperson Ayn Dietrich-Williams at the FBI about...

/ October 30, 2014
Twitter Followers with Klout Scores

Introducing BirdHouse: A Twitter API Application for PHP

My latest PHP application lets you manage and build on the Twitter API; it’s called Birdhouse. Here’s a summary of the features that Birdhouse currently offers: Manage multiple Twitter accounts Support for the Twitter REST API and User Streaming API...

/ October 17, 2014

Healing from Difficult Breakups

My latest essay describes simple ways to activate your parasympathetic nervous system to support the process of healing from a breakup: “Studies of fMRI scans show that breakups affect the same areas of the brain associated with drug addiction and withdrawal....

/ October 17, 2014