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213 days ago
Today I officially launch http://jonathanmarsh.net , which hosts my podcast, my album sales, and now this blog ( http://jonathanmarsh.net/blog ). I’ve disabled comments here to foil spammers but am leaving the archives in place. I’m gradually migrating archived posts to this new home so you can leave comments there. Please update your blog rolls and links!213 days ago
As you know, I'm a big fan of the iPhone, in part because of the simplicity of the user interface. You don’t often get lost in a sea of advanced features and configurations – they simply aren’t there! While this is a relief most of the time, once in a while you run into something tricky. For me, it’s been syncing calendars between Deanna and I. We each use Microsoft Office Outlook on separate computers, and view each other’s schedules using the built-in calendar publishing features there. However, now we each have iPhones, and while the iPhone can handle multiple Outlook calendars, it doesn’t pick up shared ones for some reason. After a bit of research and some ineffective fiddling with Google calendars, I found a simple and elegant solution: Sign up for a free account on Plaxo . Plaxo is a social networking site but you don’t have to use those features to take advantage of a great multi-calendar sync solution. On my computer I downloaded the Outlook extension that ...
214 days ago
Jason and I are again performing as the “opening act” for the Placer Nature Center ’s 4th Friday lecture series this week. This lecture is on ABC: Arthropods, Butterflies & Climate, Dr. Arthur Shapiro and will be presented by Dr. Arthur Shapiro Friday April 24th. Music starts at 7PM, lecture at 7:30. See you there!
257 days ago
In celebration of the new WSO2 Mashup Server 1.5.2 release I’ve been looking through some of my old mashups and maintaining them and adding some new features where appropriate. Here is a summary: Sri Lanka Incident Mashup – the page I was scraping changed (factored into multiple pages) so for older history I had to update my scraping code. I added unique identifiers for each data point and an operation to add a manual override in cases where the English-to-integer parsing was insufficient, and added controls from the UI to make it easy to add these corrections. National Geographic Picture of the Day Mashup – I added operation safety to make it easier to use from as a RESTful service, added a global variable to hide the test operations when not in “debug mode”, fixed the links back to the picture-of-the-day page, updated the internal logic to use the Feed object (I wrote this before the feed object could handle media modules), stripped some script ...
266 days ago
Sanjiva and I went on a hike yesterday, from the confluence to home, and despite this being my own backyard, we discovered some new things – especially doing some cross-country and bouldering around the abandoned Auburn Dam footings and the newly restored river and kayak park at the former China Bar Rapids. And after the rain of the past couple of weeks there are quite a few full-fledged waterfalls along the route. Very cool! Flickr set here .
