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Having spent the day importing and sorting my contacts in Highrise I was annoyed to find that the vCard export didn’t include images. I didn’t fancy the prospect of having to go through each contact and manually export their photograph so I created a script to do it for me.
The following Ruby script uses Highrise’s API to export vCards with the photographs intact ready for Mac OS X Address Book.
We love our Apple TV. We particularly like the screensaver that scrolls through our photo collection. However, we quickly got bored of watching the same photos stream past again and again.
So I decided to see if it would be possible to automatically download a daily dose of interesting photos from Flickr directly on to our Apple TV.
Here is how I did it.
Here are two scripts that should help anyone migrating from typo (Ruby on Rails blogging platform) to WordPress. The scripts will import articles, pages, comments, categories and tags through a sequence of SQL queries that map fields from typo to their equivalent in WordPress. Simple, quick and beats importing via RSS.
It is a constant battle in my job to stay on top of my inbox. Inspired by how effective tags are at sorting and organising stuff I decided to see if I could hack tagging into Outlook.
In 2000, $105bn was poured into young companies by venture capitalists, mostly dot-coms. There was a land grab mentality to anything and everything ‘internet’. Venture capitalists operated with an almost blinkered vision chasing after ‘eyeballs’. The premise being the more visitors a site had the more valuable it would be.
Then it all went pop. Venture capital funding in dried up and the phrase ‘dot-com’ became synonymous with the worst of the IT industry.
Web 2.0 has arrived and promises the vitality of the dot-com era grounded in a heavy dose of realism and sound financials. But have things really changed or are we just heading towards another internet boom and bust?
