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Richard - who has written 25 posts on Richard’s Corner.
a software developer and film fanatic from Las Vegas, NV.
Humongous URL!
I threw Humongous URL! together as kind of a joke, but I figured I would share it with everyone anyway. It’s basically the anti-url shortener.
It basically takes a standard url like this:
http://www.google.com
And turns it into something ridiculous like this:
http://www.humongousurl.com/r/38b63de0fec25916c5255387df1532319d68098d3e16ef6d5f5b…
See, I couldn’t even show the entire link without throwing off the entire layout of my site. [...]
My New Project: Gamer Card for WordPress
Friday, May 28, 2010
I am currently working on a new WordPress plug-in that will display a user’s Xbox Live Gamer Card. The Gamer Card itself is a Flex application, and the Xbox Live account data is retrieved using Duncan Mackenzie’s Xbox API.
If you would like to see what I have developed so far, feel free to check it [...]
Netflix Profits Up 44%
Thursday, April 22, 2010
It looks like I was right about buying more Netflix stock. As of today at 8:06AM, Netflix stock is trading at $100.12 per share, an increase of $13.14 (15.11%). This follows yesterday’s announcement that Q1 profits rose 44% from a year ago.
Some analysts predict that Netflix can’t continue to gain value at it’s current [...]
Practice What You Preach Steve
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Steve Jobs:
We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.
*cough* iTunes on Windows *cough*
How about practicing what you preach. If it’s good enough for Apple’s efforts on Windows, it should be good enough for Flash and Flex developers who would [...]
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