Tim on July 2nd, 2008

Finally installed the very excellent reCAPTCHA plugin for WordPress. I like it when my posts get comments, I don’t like it when the comments are spam. So, if you look at the comment field on this blog, it’s got the reCAPTCHA interface hanging out, keeping us safe. Also, reCAPTCHA helps decode books. Awesome!
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Tim on July 1st, 2008

I was coworking at Stardust today, and we got to talking about Agile Development, and the concept of velocity.
Disclaimer: I hate buzzwords. But, these terms have specific meanings, and although it sometimes sounds cheesy, there really is something to this Agile movement.
Basically, velocity is an Agile concept that is a self-calibrating method for estimating how […]

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Tim on July 1st, 2008

I wanted to cover a nifty-looking service that’s just launched — Gnip.
It’s a simple premise: instead of asking every social networking service what’s going on, Gnip will tell you what’s up (they’ll even POST it to your website). They’re going to be — Atlas-style — lifting a huge weight off of social networking providers. I […]

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