I recently started playing with the JREngage plugin for Android. I have been a long time user of Janrain’s multi-host OpenID authentication services, and was interested to see how easily I could build a login system within my Android application. It was trivial to get this working. And, as a bonus, you can then have …
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Monitoring Wowza with monit
I figured someone would be using monit to watch the Wowza server, but this thread on the Wowza forums had no responses. So I rolled my own configuration. Obviously you will want to customize the email address in the first gist. And, then tail –f /var/log/syslog to see monit’s activity in syslog. I had to …
Google is not your daddy (or long term reliance on APIs is as bad as outsourcing)
At the near top of Hacker News is a post to the deprecation of Google APIs which the poster labeled “Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?” I’ll tell you why. We live in an incredibly exciting time. The proliferation of APIs allows you to build amazingly powerful mash-up businesses in weeks. There has …
eBooks are only licensed? Well, at least they are not living rent free in my house.
I get the issues behind eBooks and the fact that we don’t own the eBooks we “buy.” If I purchase an eBook through Amazon, with the flip of a switch Amazon could, theoretically, revoke my right to read it and I could do nothing to prevent it from being removed on all my Kindle devices. …
Has Google lost its mojo at I/O 2011?
At Google I/O today I have to admit it was comical when the presenter doing the WebGL track had to stop in the middle of his presentation because his laptop forcibly rebooted when Windows decided to apply a security update. He even joked that maybe Microsoft did it on purpose. But, who really believes Microsoft …
Response to my article on entrepreneurship in Brazil
This was one response I got on my article “Is Brazil finally ready to fulfill on its destiny as the country of the future.” No, it’s not. Most of my extended family is in Brazil so my wife and I decided to work remote from Brazil for a couple months this fall. It’s hard to …
Is Brazil finally ready to fulfill on its destiny as the country of the future?
There is a saying that goes: “Brazil is the country of the future. And, always will be.” Maybe that is still true for much of Brazil but I believe it could shortly become a paradise for Internet startups. There is a lot of activity here in Brazil, and at first glance you would have to …
Traffic sources
I was amused by the traffic sources to my site sXcPets.com I don’t know whether it worries me more that there are people searching for “sexy gorela pics” or that they cannot spell gorilla.
Are Android customers left to rot the moment we walk out of the store?
I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for over ten years, back when it was Voicestream. I had used the G1 for a bit, but then needed to test things on the iPhone, and until late August of this year I was using a jailbroken iPhone. I have to admit, I liked the interface a lot, but …
technology: is there a hidden benefit to zero privacy?
I’m perhaps one of the few people on the Internet that purposely keeps as much as possible public on the Internet. I figure if I put it there, it should be public, because it will be public even if I try to keep it private. The internet is a copy machine, as Kevin Kelly says, …