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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Gowalla Over Foursquare
Enter Gowalla. Gowalla is similar to Foursquare in that it is a location based social network with a game element. You can get points for visiting certain places and there are “trips” you can take that involve checking in at multiple locations. Successfully completing a trip earns you points. Continue reading
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Tagged dodgeball, foursquare, gowalla, location based networks, social games, social networks
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Why You Want to Learn C in Today’s Programming World
But could you write an operating system in C# or Java? Even if you could, should you? If you need something to run its fastest, shouldn’t it talk to the hardware as directly as possible? This is where languages like C (and even C++) come in. Continue reading
Continuous Integration Workshop
This past Saturday I had the (scary) privilege of running a workshop on Continuous Integration. The workshop was put on by the Houston Alt.NET Group at the Houston Microsoft office. The workshop covered many topics including Martin Fowler’s CI Principles, source … Continue reading
C Bitwise Operators
When I got laid off I decided that I had some extra time to finally go through the book “The C Programming Language” by Kerninghan and Ritchie (aka “K&R C Book”). I got through the first chapter without too much … Continue reading
Properly Using Twitter & FriendFeed
Basically to boil it down, I keep my Twitter stream fairly focused while my FriendFeed stream is anything but focused. FriendFeed is for those that desire information overload. Continue reading
