In 2008, over one thousand people experienced the world’s first virtual web conference. Together, we created a new type of conference that is environmentally-friendly, affordable, and interactive.

In 2009, we are going to take it one step further.


Yahoo! Pipes breaks for Flash if you customize your pipe URLs

I love Yahoo! Pipes. It has saved my butt on several occasions when I've needed to transform feeds. However, I think I broke it (for myself, at least) by customizing the URL for my pipes. When you do that, you lose the ability to refer to your pipes using the yahooapis.com domain and thus you cannot [...]

Oops, I broke Google?

Update: They're on it! In the meanwhile, the suggested workaround is to add debug=True to your template.render() methods (pass it as the third argument, i.e., after the context). Update: As of 2.30pm (when I last checked), the app appears to be working again. I've made no changes whatsoever. If you hit the Flash or [...]

Google App Engine Mail API Development Web Server bug and workaround

I ran into a sneaky little bug when working locally with the Google App Engine Development Web Server and using the Mail API: sending email begins to fail if you change the source code of the class or module that contains the Mail API calls. The actual error you get is: SystemErrorParent module 'email' not [...]

My kind of bug

I'm definitely not a hardware hacker. Pulling apart the innards of a Chumby does not excite me. I don't read Make. But BUG by Bug Labs looks like something I'd love to get my hands on. CNET sums up the BUG perfectly as "The Lego of Gadgets". You have a base BUG (called -- surprise, surprise -- [...]