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Michael

Michael has written 51 posts for GUI.NET

NGINX Configuration Files and ReWrites

By Michael ⋅ July 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Some of this post will just be random notes, some will be more descriptive of just what madness occurs inside one of these files. For version 0.7.63.
1,
ancient_browser “msie 6.0″;
Whether quotes, like on the nginx site, capitalized or not, or unquoted as it is here:
http://gist.github.com/228769
(linked to from the main site), the instruction: if ($ancient_browser) is […]

Nginx Configuration Files

By Michael ⋅ June 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Oh boy.
Finally figured out that the issue here is that there is no abstraction of the concept of ‘variable’ to include both variables and aliases. So everything depends on context and which command is being used - which creates redundant functionality and unpredictability.
Same for location etc.
This lack of ability to use and apply […]

A Tweet classification scheme

By Michael ⋅ June 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

When writing software to look at the content of posts on the internet, on blogs and on Twitter, one can just use keyword and keyword context metrics, or one can be a little smarter.
Using somewhat heuristically based algorithms, one can classify blog posts and tweets, and in particular, tweeps, into several common categories for the […]

The ontology of the software universe

By Michael ⋅ May 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Organizing the discussions in the online software universe into some kind of hierarchy is a difficult and yet well-understood and frequently under-taken task.
Typically, most sites default to a relatively flat hierarchy of programming languages. You know Java, C++, JavaScript, Ruby, Flash etc.
For example dzone and stackoverflow are mostly like this.
Another hardly ever used classification scheme […]

Website Traffic Analytics and the Stock Market

By Michael ⋅ May 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Being one of the few to get caught up in the late 90’s stock market bubble (ha ha ha … Not) I learned a lot about reading stock charts.
Understanding charts helps you to make better trades - whether you are day trading, long term stock trading, long term investing, or buying on home.
At […]

To support smart phones or not to…

By Michael ⋅ May 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

As many have notes, first it was Microsoft IE that was a obstacle in the write once, run everywhere dream of every hard working programmer programming their heart out.
And we thought THAT was bad. Ha!
Now we have Apple, with its (yes, it is theirs, who else would want it?) horrifically antique Objective-C giving us […]

iPad development anxiety

By Michael ⋅ May 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

We want to but we don’t want to.
It’d be fun. But 1.0 of Apple products look so anemic in the rear-view mirror.
But, waiting for 2.0 (3.0?) takes so much patience. *Argh!*
Reading all about the iPad on theiPad News channel.
The iPad is underrated. The iPad is overrated.
It is probably both - like most things. […]

Retweet buttons

By Michael ⋅ March 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

We added a ReTweet button for the stories on Mattters recently and investigated several of the more popular approaches.
We had several requirements, many of which are not common:
* We needed 40, 50 or more buttons on a page.
* We needed each button to retweet a story whose url and title was not the url […]

A new way to Follow Your Interests

By Michael ⋅ December 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For those who have interests outside what the major news organizations feed us [get it? ‘feed’ us…], you might want to try http://mattters.com.
It is an attempt to provide full real-time coverage of all sorts of topics like Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Beer, and other good things like that as well as things like gadgets.

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