Image by pdeee454 via Flickr For a few days now I’ve been researching the nature of spam on Twitter and finding the best way of combating it for a tool I’m making. It’s been an extremely interesting ride that has, surprise surprise, proven my initial assumptions made several months ago in the process of creating [...]
Image by ecstaticist via Flickr Do you remember Skynet? You’d better, because it was the single most accurate prediction of what will inevitably happen once we develop true artificial intelligence. There is a curve to the development of artificial intelligence, a curve I may or may not have made up myself. At first machines are [...]
Image by Julie70 via Flickr Seedcamp, as many probably know, is a bit like America’s Next Top Model, but for entrepreneurs and their ideas. Therefore, apply I must, yes. Well the deadline was last night and we’ve done the best we can and now we wait for the gods of innovation to smile down upon [...]
Image by TimboDon via Flickr For the past few weeks I’ve been having a bit of a liquidity problem. There’s no income and the only money I have was in the form of my dad owing me roughly 700 euro and the ounce of gold located somewhere in my apartment, also worth roughly 700 euro. [...]
Image by Kassel via Flickr Open API‘s have become the staple of the internets. If you have a website and it doesn’t offer some kind of API then you’re an idiot these days. One of those people stuck in the past. For the purpose of this swapping generalisation let’s assume an RSS is a sort [...]
Image via Wikipedia When I was about thirteen years of age I discovered music – you know, real music, outside of what you see on television, hear on the radio and pick up from your parents. It was at that age that I discovered metal was pretty cool, transitioned my clothing to black and essentially [...]
Image by ecstaticist via Flickr Some of you may remember my writing about how unit testing is anti-productive and those of you I have to disapoint, I still dont’ think it’s the best productivity tool out there. BUT! The past few days I had another go at unit testing while developing a “server” for gathering [...]
