Category Archives: Technology

A minor design change

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Chris Heisel

I’m going to try and honor [NaBloPoMo](http://www.nablopomo.com/), but this being my first attempt I expect to fail miserably. (Notice the lack of post on Nov. 1). Realistically, I’ll be lucky if I can write one “real” post a week, so … Continue reading →

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And yet, I don’t feel that productive…

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Chris Heisel

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New York Times releasing document viewer, missing the point

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris Heisel

[E-media Tidbits](http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31) is reporting that the [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com) is [releasing an open-source document viewer](http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=150665). To be fully buzzword compliant it’s both built in [Ruby on Rails](http://www.rubyonrails.org/) and there’ll be [Amazon EC2 instances available](http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011). (Actually the EC2 instance is kind … Continue reading →

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Django in the Enterprise

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Chris Heisel

Long-time readers [know](http://heisel.org/blog/2005/06/21/best-quote-on-enterprise-development/) of my [dislike](http://heisel.org/blog/2005/04/09/enterprise-its-not-just-a-crappy-tv-show/) for the word [enterprise](http://heisel.org/blog/2005/01/11/thought-of-the-day-enterprise/), but the truth is that many of us work for just such a beast. Luckily I get to use [Django](htttp://djangoproject.com) at my [job](http://www.ajc.com) and I thought I’d share what little … Continue reading →

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iPhone hijack resolved

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Chris Heisel

So [Erica](http://www.ericaendicott.com) finally heard back from AT&T. Our phone wasn’t hijacked. Neither of us ever made an unscheduled trip to, and subsequently texted from Azerbaijan. It was a billing error that affected about a thousand people, according to the AT&T … Continue reading →

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