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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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iPhone vs. Droid, Consumer Wins
I’ve been reading a lot about the Verizon’s new smartphone, the Motorola Droid. You’ve probably have seen the iDon’t commercials from Verizon about all the things the Droid does that the iPhone doesn’t do. And we’re seeing a small uptick in online flame wars on Droid versus iPhone. The fanboys have certainly been out in force so I want to take a look at things from a broader perspective because with the Droid, Motorola has shown that Android should be taken seriously. Continue reading
Boxee Review
Boxee is a piece of downloadable software that runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX. Boxee allows you to watch videos off your network, and gives you easy access to videos from online sources like Revision3, ABC, other video sources online. It’s designed with the use of a remote in mind and is based on the popular XBMC (XBox Media Center) project. Continue reading
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TwitterNET Project: A .NET Twitter Library
Over the weekend, I finally finished a large chunk of wrapping the Twitter API into a .NET 3.5 library using C#. With the exception of the OAuth & Search methods, this most of the REST methods are complete (only 3 are not done at this time but should be done soon). The project is located on Github by clicking here. Continue reading
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Goes Open Source & Misses the Point a Little
There was big news in the Java world this week. JetBrains released their popular IntelliJ IDEA as an open source community edition. While, this has been heralded as a great move (and to some extent I agree with that), I feel that JetBrains kind of missed the point a little. Before I go any further, you should look at the Edition Comparison Chart.
If you look at the chart, you’ll notice that some of the features they need t Continue reading
C# Partial Keyword
This is where the partial keyword comes into play. I can organize my methods so that related methods are in their own files but are still accessible in the same class. This came in real handy in my Twitter library (linked above). Continue reading
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Hulu to Start Charging, Viewers to Stop Watching
Earlier today, news made the rounds that Hulu, an online television show streaming website, will begin charging for their service in 2010 (EW Article). Continue reading →