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Make Jaiku presence updates programmatically

A couple of weeks ago I wrote post about updating your Twitter timeline using the Twitteroo Core API . Recently I dug into the Jaiku API to learn how to do the same. The Jaiku API docs don’t offer many examples or details, but the basics are…

Day of .NET in Ann Arbor III

Day of .NET in Ann Arbor is Saturday, October 20th at Washtenaw Community College. I’ve attended both previous events and if you live within driving distance you should definitely attend. It’s four hours one-way for me! This event has offered great…

Brian Campbell - GotCast.com

A friend of mine, Brian Campbell , (our former intern at Sharkbytes) recently lauched a new site and had this to say: Hey everyone- i wanted to share my newest website with you all. It’s called GotCast and we provide online casting for television…

Hedging my bet on Twitter with RandomJaikus.com

A little over a week ago I announced my latest little fun site: RandomTweets.com . It was a nice little site to build and working with the Twitter API was fun. Then along comes the news yesterday about Google acquiring Jaiku . The microblogging…

More Twitter Fun - RandomTweets.com

While looking at the Twitter API last week I found myself taking a glance at the public timeline - basically just to see what fields the RSS and XML feeds offered. I didn’t really pay the content all that much attention, but one of the updates struck…

WhatIWantMost How to post to your Twitter timeline

Last week I attended a presentation about Web 2.0 that described the recurring concepts behind the buzzword and looked at how (as well as if and when) those can be applied to enterprise systems and organizations. One of the points of the presentation…

Code to Live - New Videocast Series

Keith Elder pointed to a new video series a couple of days ago on Channel9 by Steve Loethen and our own Josh Holmes , Code To Live . I watched the first two episodes and I enjoyed them. The series looks like it will be something a little…

Up, Down, Touch the Ground

Up, Down, Touch the Ground

A few days ago Tucker (who is now 10 months old!) got a new toy, a singing Winnie the Pooh . It is really cute and he seems to like it. Whenever we sing the song he looks around the room for the toy so he is showing some associative recognition…

Dayton .NET - James Bender on Building SOA-based .NET Apps

It’s once again time for the monthly Dayton .NET Developers Group meeting. Tonight’s speaker is James Bender (hmm, we need to get James using Community Server) of Quick Solutions . He will be discussing “Building SOA based .NET applications with…

Professional Community Server Themes

I had the pleasure of working on a great project earlier this year with two very talented co-workers: Wyatt Preul and Ben Tiedt . I served as the Technical Editor for their new Wrox book, Professional Community Server Themes . Between the awesome…