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Django Plugables

 April.29th.2008 • 4:36PM 5 Comments

This is the story of a guy and his company’s first application, Django Plugables. Well, actually it’s more of a utility but that’s besides the point. Said guy takes you on an overview of what went into the creation of said application.

For those of you who haven’t heard or have been living under the proverbial rock, Revyver released its first “application” about three weeks ago. And yes, only now am I getting around to writing about Django Plugables. I put application in quotes mainly because it’s more of a utility than a social network application1.

So here it is, “The story of Django Plugables” or “How I built something in 5 days.”

Day 1: Find what’s pissing me off

This story starts with a problem. Every story has to start out with a problem, right? “Boy ...

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Final Fantasy San Fancsico

 June.26th.2007 • 11:18PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and his girl as they make their way to the Sony Metreon in San Francisco to take part in a lot of line waiting to celebrate the release of Final Fantasy 1 & 2 for the PSP. There was more waiting than the time taken at the actual event, unfortunately.

Today Jen and I had the chance to visit the Sony Metreon in San Francisco for a Square-Enix event that was announced a few weeks ago, celebrating 20 years since the release of the first Final Fantasy for the NES. It turned out to be more of an event to get your money than an event to celebrate the legacy of Final Fantasy, but as blind fans, we had to at least see what the “crystal hooha” was all about. Below is a retelling of today’s story. (I would have had this up earlier, but my battery died ...

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The Overview of SXSW 2007

 March.21st.2007 • 11:03PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy, a girl and a conference. The conference was SXSW in Austin, TX and the story is about the journey from their home in San Jose to Austin, and back. It was long and boring drive, which was eclipsed by an awesome conference.

As one of the last to sound-off on this awesome conference, I’ll try not to bore you with some of the details. What I am going to do is commit grand theft entry on my friend DKR and take a look at the conference from (hopefully) a different set of lenses.

For this conference goer, the trip to Austin and back spanned 17 days and over 2,500 driven miles. Even though I’d probably never drive halfway across the country ever again, what I found and experienced in Austin has once again changed my outlook for the ...

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The Long Way Home

 September.23rd.2006 • 11:10PM No Comments

This is the continuing story of a guy and a conference. Although this story takes place at an airport, an airport he happens to be stuck at for the night.

8:39 PM

I tried mobile blogging this, but unfortunately my lovely Samsung A900 doesn’t like blogging. I’m unfortunately stuck in Corpus Christi at the moment, on what was supposed to be an hour trip to Houston. From the looks of it, we weren’t able to get to Houston because of a raging storm. Actually, the passenger next to me lives 5 miles from George Bush International, and his wife had a different opinion on the weather, or lack of opinion when he called her. However, I know I did see something out my window - well ...

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WebVisions 2006 Wrap-Up

 July.23rd.2006 • 12:34PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and his journey to Portland, Oregon to attend WebVisions 2006.

SXSW in March was my first web conference, ever. So for those of you who have been, you could see my expectations coming into my second conference experience with the smaller WebVisions event - which was proudly curated by Brad Smith of Hot Pepper Studios with the help of tens of others. The short of it is, even with some mix-ups, it definitely rivaled SXSW as one of my favorites (doesn’t say much). The long story will follow.

Day 0

It seems like every time I take Southwest to go anywhere, I’m always racing against time in order ...

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The Xbox 360 / Best Buy Fiasco

 November.22nd.2005 • 10:14AM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and a store. The guy waits outside said store for a good amount of time waiting for an Xbox 360. He’s successful, even though he spends a ton of money on it. Was it worth it? Yea. :)

Time: 11:10 PM Just got to Best Buy, looks like 30 people beat us here, which isn’t that bad considering the pictures I had seen earlier on Kotaku. So Jen and I brought my Powerbooks, videos, blankets and pillows. I thought it was a little nuts bringing extra stuff. Obviously, I’m not an experienced “wait outside for shit the day it comes out” person. There were people complete with food, sleeping bags, lounge chairs, etc. Looks like the first people got here about 3 hours ago, and some of them definitely don’t look like gamers ...

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