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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Online ads are priced right
There’s a good interview with the [CEO of an online ad firm at Silicon Alley Insider](http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/2/24_7_real_media_ceo_david_moore) that raises a very good point about **Internet advertising rates**: Moore: The fact of the matter is the Internet has been either dramatically underpriced … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Technology
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Quote of the day: NITF
“OMG I can hear the clunking sounds coming from the [NITF website](http://www.nitf.org/)” — IM conversation with [Zellyn](http://www.zellyn.com)
Posted in Journalism, Programming, Technology
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My first Django snippet: Another Memcache status view
Hooray! I posted by first Django snippet today. It’s a [status view for your memcache server(s)](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/597/). I had originally used [this snippet](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/54/), but the regex and socket thing never quite sat right with me. Turns out that django.core.cache has a … Continue reading
Posted in Django, Python, Technology
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Yelp.com missing the boat on RSS
So [Yelp](http://www.yelp.com) is uh, totally missing the boat on RSS. They’ve got a [a page listing their meager RSS offerings](http://www.yelp.com/rss). I’m not sure why they’re rolling feeds out city by city, in most systems if you’ve built in the ability … Continue reading
My favorite Web development laws
From the [great list over at Blue Flavor](http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/thinking/the_immutable_laws_of_web_design_and_development.php): ###Lister’s Law### People under time pressure don’t think faster. ###Hofstadter’s Law### A task always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Posted in Management, Programming
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