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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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Get Your Source Code Online
While having a discussion with a friend of mine earlier today about how I would tell if programming candidate was up to snuff, I realized that a lot of programmers out there are probably missing a lot of chances to get better jobs, find more work (if they’re a contractor), or just a simple learning opportunity by not having their source code for their personal programming projects stored in an online code repository. Continue reading
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Rotation Cipher – My First Android App
Over the 3 day weekend I decided I was going to write a simple Android application to publish to the Android App Market to find out a few things. First, I wanted to see if I could do it, write an app with some kind of simple functionality quickly. Secondly, I wanted to see what the process for publishing to the Android App Market was like. We hear all the time about how Apple disapproves apps, and kicks apps out of the market (sometimes almost, it would seem, randomly). Continue reading
Posted in mobile apps, programming, Rotation Cipher, Technology
Tagged android, mobile apps
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Emacs & VI (Vim)
The thing about editors like Emacs or Vim (VI Improved) is that they are completely cross platform. There is a version of both that runs on all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc). In fact, VI is part of the Unix standard and any version of Unix doesn’t actually qualify as Unix without VI being installed. Continue reading
Alt.NET Houston Open Spaces 2010
This year, Alt.NET Houston will be hosting it’s 2nd Open Spaces Conference. Last years was such a success that many wanted us to do it again. The What and When This year the conference will be held from Friday, April … Continue reading
Managing Multiple Repositories With Git
I’ve started a small side project with a friend of mine. It’s a Ruby on Rails project and he has been doing the design work while I’ll be handling some of the Ruby/Rails backend pieces. For many reasons we went … Continue reading
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H.264 vs. Theora (Software Patents)
The H.264 video codec requires a license to use, the same way the Mp3 codec requires a license to use. While the Theora and Vorbis codecs do not require such licenses, companies like Apple don’t like to use them because they have their hands in other codecs (H.264 or AAC in Apple’s case). Continue reading →