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

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

The items we carry

The other day I was on flickr and I happened across a friend’s picture of things that he carries in his pockets. I thought it was really neat. He had linked to the photo pool that had a bundle of people following suit. It is amazing. I immediately took a picture of the things I [...]

Flickr Gallery for facebook.

So I decided to jump in and write a facebook application. It was really fun and pretty easy. For those of you who haven’t been following this, Facebook released development kit for their site that allows third parties to develop applications that reside inside of facebook’s website. It is pretty nifty.
So I used the [...]

So i decided to copy the success of my flickr badge and create a youtube badge. It works really easy and shows the last 6 videos you have uploaded. Its pretty cool. I used the youtube class i made the other day and just copied the functionality straight across from my flickr badge. haha. its [...]

So i have been writing drafts of posts with windows live writer. It does a decent job. It makes blogging a bit more easy for peeps who don’t really like working in a browser. I think along with the flickr plugin - it may be a decent blog editor for people like my mom and [...]

So falbum, the awesome flickr photo gallery for wordpress, broke this afternoon around 4pm due to the API key for the plugin expiring. This is annoying and somewhat funny. It seems that as of right now - all falbum sites are broken. hah. Every single one. Doesn’t this seem to be a flaw in flickr’s [...]

So i finally came back.

I am currently at home. Hanging out. Having a great time. It is sometime sooo nice to be home. I forget that about traveling.
Anyway. I have posted all the pictures from this weekend. We have Jon’s Graduation, some night juggling pictures and then pictures of Jon’s biodiesel setup.
The trip was nice.
Next weekend i am going [...]

waiting to fly

I am waiting for my flight. my family left to colorado about 30 minutes ago and my flight is delayed until 8:00. sad. only 4 hours. i thought it would be a good opportunity to go and find a book to read in the bad airport book stores. sadly there was NO interesting books. Only [...]

this is a long awaited post

I am lost in regards to what to listen to. I need something new. Or old. i don’t know.
This is really amazing. For some reason people are taking “famous” videos and making them “stable.” It is quite interesting and makes watching the videos a bit more mysterious - cuz the video becomes much more [...]

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 [...]

  

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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