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Hacker News 2.0 2.0

Talk about iteration!  This morning I announced my redesigned dashboard for the popular Hacker News website (news.ycombinator.com), humbly dubbed “Hacker News 2.0“.  The site was promptly swamped with ALOT of traffic, which then caused the server to be blacklisted (or at least temporarily blocked) by the original HackerNews site – the source for all of HN2‘s content.  Of course the comments poured in pointing out that the site “doesn’t work”.

Well here we are several hours, and a few lines of code later, and the site is back up and running faster than ever.  now instead of… Continue reading →

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Removing The “Featured Image” box in WordPress

If you, like me, do a great deal of WordPress development you’ve probably had clients ask you to remove that pesky “Featured Image” box from the Post Editor screen.  It comes in really handy for some sites and for others it’s just wasted space.

At the time of this writing, there is no really good way to accomplish this using standard WordPress hooks.  If you don’t believe me just try using a “remove_meta_box” function on it and see what happens.  Of course, eventually the good people involved with developing WP will address this and the post you are reading will… Continue reading →

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Sony – They Haven’t Learned!

I don’t believe this.  After getting absolutely destroyed in the press, in court of public opinion, and almost dragged into the real courts themselves, Sony has the (ahem) audacity to not encrypt the logon to the PlayStation Store website.

 

Don’t believe me, here’s the HTML of the Iframe that loads when you click, “Login”.

<iframe width=”350″ height=”410″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”no” id=”signin-iframe” name=”signin-iframe” style=”height: 510px; margin-top: 0px; width: 954px; ” src=”https://store.playstation.com/external/index.vm?returnURL=http://us.playstation.com/uwps/PSNTicketRetrievalGenericServlet”></iframe>

Note the lack of an HTTPS prefix.

Want more proof?

What does this mean to you?  It means that whenever you visit Sony’s PlayStation Store website and you login,… Continue reading →

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Multitasking is the Way

 

So I have this idea.  Maybe its’ a good one and maybe it’s a bad one, but it’s mine so I’m sticking with it.

My idea is that tech companies today have the wrong idea about things.  We’ve seen, since the 90′s the rise of one-trick-pony companies that form around one single product and then spend years of their lives trying to make that product a success.

 

Most of these guys fail.

 

My idea is that those that fail, and even those that succeed, both have the wrong idea.  Quite frankly the only difference I see between… Continue reading →

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