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JPEG Rotation and EXIF Information

one of the main reasons to get a new iPhone was to finally get one that has a non-ridiculous camera. the original iPhone camera was laughably bad even when the iPhone was released, and after three years, it had become... Read more →

iPhone to Android: Make the Leap?

shamelessly copying the make the leap slogan from SRAM (which faced the prospect of entering a market where shimano seemed to be impossible to attack), this is my brief report of 30 days and 30 nights (another shamelessly copied tagline)... Read more →

Feed Theory and Facebook Reality

my original plan was to write a post about how to circumvent facebook's absurd limitation that users are only allowed to import exactly one feed into their accounts. this limitation is obviously fueled by facebook's desire to pull people into... Read more →

New Stimulus Report Scrape

we just updated our scraped data for stimulus reports, this comparison page shows the reports we scraped from recovery.gov as well as the reports we got from agency sites directly. we now have 416 reports we found on recovery.gov, and... Read more →

REST Programming Toolbox Requirements

REST is all the rage, and everybody claims they're doing REST. REST is a style of designing web services, and the question is how this style can be best supported by a programming environment. there are two possible perspectives of... Read more →

Atom's Future as a General-Purpose Format

subbu allamaraju recently raised the question of Atom as a General-Purpose Format, and showed one example (Google Code Search Data API) that looked like a not-so-great way of using Atom. in my comment on his blog, i agreed to his... Read more →

Finding Stimulus Agencies

starting from Finding Stimulus Feeds and figuring out that this requires Finding Stimulus Sites, we are now back to square one, so to speak, trying to just figure out how to start the search for sites, so that we can... Read more →

Stimulus Feed #2

after finding what may have been Stimulus Feed #1, we now have found one more, so we simply called it #2 (which of course may be completely wrong). this second feed has been made available the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s... Read more →

Finding Stimulus Sites

recovery web sites are mandated by the Initial Implementing Guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act guidelines, and recovery.gov keeps track of these sites and currently makes them available in a list of agencies and a list of states... Read more →

Stimulus Feed #1

after blogging about Stimulus Feeds Done Right and some Stimulus Feed Details that would be good to see, i was of course excited to find the first stimulus feed in the wild! it is from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s... Read more →