Last week I saw Hal Pomeranz of the SANS institute give a talk on how ACH (Automated Clearing House) fraud has become increasingly more sophisticated. It is a serious problem and it’s beginning to have a non negligible economic impact on business here in the USA. In this blog post I will summarize the takeaway . . . → Read More: ACH Fraud becoming ever more clever
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It’s funny how things confluence. A while back I did a post spreading the word about 2-D bar codes. Just recently I attended Beaver Bar Camp and went to an un-session titled Nerdlepoint by a woman from Portland OR named Julia (sorry, bar camps are so anarchistic that I couldn’t find her full name in . . . → Read More: Random Fiber Arts Dorkage  7 comments - (Comments are closed)  Geek Stuff, Multimedia  2D barcodes, barcamp, hoodie, knitting, nerdlepoint, nokia, QR codes In my previous post in this series, I described some ancient software that I wrote years ago that I would like to recycle for the web. This post focuses on massaging the existing resources so that they are web-ready. Boring, but critical, and not so easy, as it turned out! Preparing the graphical . . . → Read More: Adventures in Resource Mining One comment - (Comments are closed) Front End Frameworks, Geek Stuff, Multimedia extracting, file juicer, Hypercard, resedit, resfork, resource fork, resources, sheepshaver This series of posts is planned to document of some my adventures trying to leverage an abandoned Hypercard opus I did a long time ago. It’s more of a narrative than a how to. A lot of different realms come into play here. So if you aren’t up for reading a long multi-part techno-novela, scamper . . . → Read More: Hypercard What has thou wrought? Something very very cool fell into my inbox today. The back story I had been researching OEmbed kind of as a background project to see if I could use it in my own stuff. Now what is OEmbed, you ask? It is a specification by which a simple link transforms itself into rich content. If . . . → Read More: Embed.ly: One API to rule them all 9 comments - (Comments are closed) Front End Frameworks, Geek Stuff, Multimedia API, Embed.ly library, firebug, JQuery, OEmbed, services, supported sites, Wordpress, youtube |