05 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 04:10 PM
Tags: ajax, contact manager, contacts, gmail, google, hacking, isync, javascript, xml
Since Google just changed the game of mobile software - I got to thinking about my new fascination - Contact management. So the first place I go to is Gmail and Google’s new contact manager. Being an iSync freakout, I love syncing my contacts. I LOVE being able to bring in contacts from all my [...]
27 May
Posted by Harper in Technology at 11:32 AM
Tags: hacking, ideas, jabber, projects, Technology, thinking
You know when you are speaking and you are have a word stuck in your head and you can’t quite think what it is. it is on the tip of your tongue or whatever. Well for the past couple weeks, whenever someone mentions jabber, gtalk or xmpp or whenever I start thinking about those topics - [...]
I love weekends. They are great. I love not having the time off from work and being able to hang out with hiromi. But lately, because I have been so busy I have to use my weekend to do work. It blows. So today I am going to take off from work. and I am [...]
10 Apr
Posted by Harper in Technology at 10:41 PM
Tags: audrey, chumby, flash, hacking, hardware, linux, python, Technology, widget
So I got a Chumby awhile ago. It is really neat. I fell in love with it immediately. I took it apart, put it back together. I turned on SSH, poked around, played with the insides. I replaced images, replaced flash pieces and then I got real busy. So this weekend I finally got to [...]
17 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 07:19 PM
Tags: blogging, hacking, irc, make, perl, plugin, source-code, twitter
The other day, I decided to finish up a twitter hack idea I had and never fully executed. Awhile ago I made a bot that output the updates of my friends into my IRC channel. I did this by writing a quick bot that would log into a dedicated AIM account which received updates from [...]
18 May
Posted by Harper in General at 08:51 PM
Tags: colocation, firewall, hacking, sad, servers
Man today sucked. Seriously. I haven’t had a BAD day in years. today. today was a bad day. I woke up and got in the shower. Got dressed. check my email. checked my text messages. and i had a txt from my buddy mike telling me my server was broke. so i checked it out. [...]
27 Feb
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 08:45 PM
Tags: ambient, diy, embedded, hacking, led, make, nabaztag, takeapart, wifi
I got my gumstix today and was lauding the fanciness of the smallest comptuer i have EVER seen, explaining to my coworker Dan how i was going to build an ambient orb/nabaztag like device that will integrate with my bluetooth phone and my pbx. he was impressed of course ;) - and told me that [...]
22 Feb
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 02:09 AM
Tags: congress, geoip, geotag, hacking, harper, politics, webapps, websites
I need some new sites. Speaking of which - I am making a new site: geopoli.com. It is a geotargeted political banner ad and text ad delivery site. I want to make it so you can include a dynamic image or JS code snippet on your blog or myspace profile and it will display to [...]
20 Feb
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 11:35 PM
Tags: hacking, Technology
So we shall see how it goes. My plan is to make it welcome me when i arrive and to control LEDs to alert me of certain things. It will have Bluetooth, Audio and CF based wifi. I am pretty excited. I feel it will relaly push my skillz to the max. hah.
I have an [...]
09 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 10:54 PM
Tags: 2.0, 37signals, awesome, bot, campfire, chat, hacking, harper, irc, web
So i was playing around with campfire and i noticed that i could easy write a bot for it. so i did. it sucks. but it shows what you could do. how i love www mechanize. and perl. check it out:
http://nata2.info/?path=code%2Fcampfire_bot_hack
Oh yea. campfire is sweet. the 37signals guys did a great job. although i am [...]
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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