Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, XMPP, Hacking, Baphomet

blogs smogs.

hiromi got a blog. heh. i hooked her up. hopefully she will use it. UNLIKE MATISS. heh.
anyway. yea. the new ruby on rails (i.e. raspberry) ituners.com is almost done. i am excited. it is pretty sweet.

insanity for sure

So i randomly decided to redo blogs.nata2.org in rails at 2 in the morning. WHY AM I INSANE!!!
someday all this lack of sleep will pay off - with an accident with machinery at a construction site.
“in my daze the loader looked like my bed”

ruby on rails

I decided to follow the pack of wild php developers and attack ruby on rails. it rules. in the past 30 hours of dayish time - i have spent a significant amount of time devoted to learning this new platform. it is nifty for sure. Basically it is an mvcish platform that runs off of [...]

one thousandth post.

Lots and lots of writing has taken place. it is pretty nuts. i have been blogging since march 1st 2000. it is pretty nuts. A lot of words. a lot of randomness. a HUGE number of rants and a couple emotions. hah. mostly just drivel. it rules. Since 2000 i have had [...]

cecil. word

so i was hanging out at work. and i decided to check up on some blogs as a pat on the back for doing good work - and i checked this blog i read of this women who went to cornell and was an aquaintence of mine and friends or my friends.. anyway.. on her [...]

weekend oh yea

so this weekend i hung out a lot. it was awesome. i came home from work early on friday (holiday) and hung out with matt and hiromi. we went and got beers, pop, cheese and thai food. then we watched new poilce story. so so good. it was about jackie chan - a screwed up [...]

Day two try 1 billion

so i have been working on wordpress and i decided to upgrade all my friends to wordpress. so i did mike’s, miriams, Dylan’s, danielles and comptons and soon i will get Matiss’s and Thom’s.
hopefully this will rule - we could have a huge trackback club. and more people will se our blogs. MORE MORE [...]

where the deer and the antelope play. where seldom is heard a discouraging word. and the eyes eat cowboys all day. Oh yea. it is the weekend. I am soooo sleepy. I am going to have a meet and greet. and then have a meet and sleep. and t…

google is my favorite friend/evil entity

this is an excellent write up on the incredible google maps. the most important thing he says is:

I also think it bears noting that Google is pulling out all the stops
to build rich web apps, no matter how weirdly they have to hack the
browser to make them go. And I strong…

so busy. but almost done.

check it out. the first step: yeknom industries. w00t. you will have to wait until later to see what comes next. being so busy I have barely had enough time to notice the insanely smart people who “hang” on the internet. basically I mean.. google employees. heh. for some starters - Chris Wetherell seems to be quite…

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer and software architect involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO to the awesome skinnyCorp in Chicago, IL. We make some really cool stuff. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.

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