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Start the New Year with an inspiring book …
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big is Scott Adams’ (creator of Dilbert) funny memoir about his many failures and what they taught him about success. I enjoyed this entertaining...
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fI am reading a book on VimL (Vimscript) and it introduced me to mpc, a client for Music Player Daemon (MPD) . In this post I show you how to set up mpc and how to quickly select and play music from...
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I released my first Android game: Free Monkey
I just finished Android 1: Introduction to Mobile Application Development (O’Reilly School of Technology). For the final project you had to build a complete app. One of the options was the Hangman...
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Serious about bodybuilding? Arnold’s education of a bodybuilder is a must-read
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. Arnold Schwarzenegger Almost 2 years ago I started working out...
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Get more out of life, become an essentialist
We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like. Tyler Durden (Fight Club) I just finished Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Here are some things to ponder over: – A lot of...
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Tools I use to read more and retain more of what I read
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen...
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Quick and easy way to know about new books on Safari
Safari Books Online is awesome, many reasons, worth another blog post. For one thing you get to access the latest and greatest titles even early releases. You can conveniently monitor it here. However...
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Project: playing/upcoming weekly movie email (themoviedb API)
Hi again, some more coding today. My original attempt at this broke some time ago, because themoviedb’s page HTML changed. Lesson learned: rather use an API. So I rewrote this script, improving it and...
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Better alternative for PHP sleep: use a dotted progress bar with Javascript
Last week I developed a playing/upcoming movie HTML newsletter. I just added a feature to add the movies to your watch list on sharemovi.es. You have to be authenticated to FB. If not I am redirecting...
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How to programatically get a youtube movie trailer
I really liked Youtube’s Gdata API, I had it all working nicely. As you can see from that post I had a nice popup overlay on Sharemovi.es with the movie trailer video embedded. Till it broke … Gdata...
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