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21. January 2012

Got my Amateur Radio Licence

After putting it off for years, I’ve finally gotten my amateur radio license! Say hello to VE4WMT! With enough studying, it’s pretty straightforward to get. In Canada, as in the US, it is no longer a requirement to pass a Morse code exam, so this simplifies things for sure. One thing that really helped me [...]

9. December 2011

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Save Time by Providing Training Videos

I train a lot of people on how to use WordPress, Drupal, and other content management systems, and I’ve found that my methods have changed a lot over these few years. I used to write out full documentation on all of the steps needed, and provide the client with a nice document… a document that [...]

16. October 2011

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Aerial Photography with a Kite

It was such a windy day here in Winnipeg, MB that we decided it was a perfect time to test out my keychain spy camera! We used some tuck tape to attach it to the bottom fin where the string is tied… but I should have put it nearer to the bottom because the the [...]

1. April 2011

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An Intro to Tropo – Presentation

Here’s the slides for the presentation I did about the Tropo platform for the Winnipeg Ruby user group. Not a huge amount of information in the slides themselves, but I did point out some decent examples you can check out: Tropo documentation Example using the Web API Sinatra examples, using the Web API – great [...]

26. March 2011

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The BeBop Room – my first flash game

On January 28th and 29th, a bunch of independent game developers got together to work on a game. The idea was that each person would make a mini-game, and the player would be able to move from game to game as if they were each a ‘room’. The result was So Many Rooms, a collection [...]

5. December 2010

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Viva Pinata – can’t save the game – fixed

So I bought this fun little game called Viva Pinata, but after playing it for about an hour I realized I was unable to save the game! It says something about pressing the home key to load your gamer profile, but the home key does nothing. Pretty annoying considering all the lame tutorial stuff you [...]

23. November 2010

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Drupal Webforms – States and Provinces

Here is the data you can use when setting up a select box in a Drupal webform for selecting American states, and Canadian provinces.

13. November 2010

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Fable 3 vs Fable 2

I’m a couple hours into Fable 3, and I have to say I’m pretty disappointed. Where Fable 2 was very customizable, and open-ended, I’m finding Fable 3 is far too simple. In this post, I’ll be talking about some of the things I really dislike about this game… but first, some of the things that Fable III got right…

31. October 2010

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Motorola F3 – eInk Phone

The Motorola F3 is a very basic phone with an eInk display, and sells for about $30 unlocked. Read my post to find out more about its (lack of) features.

30. August 2010

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Misc Geospatial Links

Here are some miscellaneous geospatial related links that I have in my bookmark list. As I add more, I will eventually split them into categories.

18. August 2010

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BrowserCMS – a Content Management System for Ruby on Rails

Up until recently, content management systems were big business, and unless you wanted to pay for a commercial system, many companies built their own. After the huge growth of free CMSes though, a company called BrowserMedia took a bold approach with their proprietary CMS: they rewrote it in Ruby on Rails, and released it as open source.

5. August 2010

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Wacky Telephony with Tropo

Alright, I love playing with new technologies, but if I can’t make something wacky within the first 10 minutes then I tend to lose interest. There’s gotta be examples for me to rip off — stealing people’s ideas really gets my creative juices flowing. Tropo is a service that does exactly this. Great API, great examples, and super easy to get set up.

19. June 2010

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MailChimp Features – a brief rundown

Man, I am on such a MailChimp kick lately! Maybe it’s their wacky sense of humour, or their great feature set, or maybe I’m just delirious from spending hours putting together a bilingual newsletter :) Anyway, I spent some time putting together some information about MailChimp’s pricing, and some of their more useful features, so I figured I’d post it online.

9. June 2010

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DIY Coca Cola Recipe

I work with a guy that drinks probably about 3 litres of cola each day! Yikes! And somehow he’s as skinny as me. Well, that got me interested in the possibility of making your own coke. Here’s some information I found about a cola recipe, and couple different carbonation methods.

18. May 2010

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Trying out MailChimp for Email Newsletters

Here are some of my first impressions with the email marketing tool MailChimp. Don’t let the goofy name fool you — MailChimp is a powerful tool for managing mailing lists and setting up newsletters.

10. May 2010

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Trying out Google Apps with Pilot Mode

Switching over from a regular POP account to Google Apps GMail isn’t easy, but Google has some solutions that make it a little less painful. Learn about setting up a pilot program with Google Apps so you can test out their service before you commit.