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

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

Release your applications inner API. Please.

I have recently been involved in talking to a local chicago entity about their unofficial API. It has been fun and deserves a blog entry of its own. However, this is not that blog entry – this blog entry is about mashups and the not so public APIs they often create.
In the past couple years [...]

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 [...]

watership ajax’d popular image browser

check out my new fanciness here. i used the prototype javascript library. it rules.

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ohhh… stuff got insane

oh yea. so stability, unrest and insanity are all ways to describe my current feelings. basically nothing is making sense and everything is all screwed up.
the new zealand people are at it again – or something. LAME. and super super annoying. i hate money.
i think i am about to go through [...]

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. 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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