Month: August 2009

  • The Supreme Court Website: An Updated Redesign — Sunlight Foundation Blog

    The Supreme Court Website: An Updated Redesign — Sunlight Foundation Blog.

  • New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute by PC World: Yahoo! Tech

    New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute by PC World: Yahoo! Tech .

  • The BASIC Cloud Framework API

    Last night, I spent the evening with a bunch of PHP developers in DC. This informal gathering in the DC-PHP community is a regular occurrence known as the DC PHP Beverage Subgroup – Virginia Chapter. There is also a DC-chapter that meets once a month as well. These two informal gatherings are for the sole…

  • WordPress Bible Book Tour

    From the moment I announced that I would be writing the WordPress Bible, friends and fans all over the world have been asking me to come to their city to do an event. Clearly, I would love to do such a thing, but without tremendous support it is not in the cards. However, more recently,…

  • Crime Statistics in DC

    After the news today that MSNBC.com acquired EveryBlock, a service that tracks local news in 12 different cities and organizes news, reviews, and other localized data into searchable locales (zip codes, neighborhoods, etc), I decided to poke around a bit. One of the areas that EveryBlock tracks is crime statistics and Washington, DC is one…

  • Health Care Reform: Trillion Dollar Spitballs

    Here in the doldrums of August, the debate around Health Care Reform spins wildly as both sides position themselves against a Trillion dollar problem that is the key point of the Obama agenda. Basically, the debate comes down to two perspectives, as it always does. On one side, the argument is made that the health…

  • FriendFeed is now In a Relationship with Facebook

    In a move that surprised many in the tech world, Facebook and FriendFeed today announced that FriendFeed has been acquired by Facebook. This announcement came as a surprise to those who see FriendFeed as an annoying, yet open approach to the web whereas Facebook has a history of being a walled garden, often only opening…

  • Bring Different Innovation to Washington

    A few weeks ago, I received a call from my friend Robert Neelbauer at about 11 pm. He wanted to talk about innovation and technology startups in DC. For those who live around here, you know there’s not a lot of them. Mostly project-type things that entrepreneurs who work day jobs have cooking. And of…