John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
A bit of last-minute news, but I’ll be on a panel at SXSW Interactive: “Using GPS & Location to Enhance Social Networking”. First there were social networks, and then there were location-based social networks, and now GPS and navigation-enhanced mobile social networks. This panel will explore how these emerging platforms integrate with existing social networks [...]
Image by davidwatts1978 via Flickr Normally I don’t re-post Twitter articles here but this one on the New York magazine was wistful, fair, balanced, and gave a good representation of what it’s like to work here. The reporter was in the office on the very day the US Airways flight crashed into the Hudson, and [...]
Image via Wikipedia Since people started using virtual hosts by name with Apache HTTPD and other web servers, it has become very difficult to figure out which virtual hosts live on a single IP, if all you have is the IP address. Have a look at the Robtex Internet Swiss Army Knife. It solves this [...]
