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Since moving to Camarillo for college in August, I missed both SHDH20 and SHDH21 due to the increased distance between the Bay Area and where I live. However, since I’m back in San Luis Obispo for winter break, I was able to attend SHDH22. Instead of spending my time socializing and learning, I […]

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While using either an open wireless network at a coffee shop, an untrusted network, or virtually any open network, your data is exposed. Data passed around on a network is normally unencrypted which means anyone can read it. Imagine the type of data you send over the network: passwords, private messages, more passwords! […]

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This DevHouse I spent working on an idea that has begun to taken shape in the blogosphere. The idea was to merge OpenID and microformats to manage your online identity. OpenID has a registration extension that stores commonly asked personal information such as full name, email address, date of birth, and time zone. […]

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So I’m pretty sure I’m done with my transition from godaddy to Bluehost. I just need to wait for the DNS changes for nickpeters.net to propagate across the internets. Anyways, GoDaddy was slow, didn’t allow SSH access, and just not cutting it for me in terms of features, thus the switch.
So here’s a […]

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Social xFolk is my first Greasemonkey script that looks for xFolk microformatted bookmarks and adds two buttons for easy bookmarking for del.icio.us and ma.gnolia. It was developed at SuperHappyDevHouse14 and inspired by the greasemonkey script Google hCalendar.
Anyways, get the script here. Be sure to leave any feedback and let me know what you […]

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December 16th 1pm,
1am 2006 —
SuperHappyDevHouse 14— at
2735 Skyfarm Drive Hillsborough, California 94010

SuperHappyDevHouse 1110! If anyone from SLO needs a ride, let me know.
This
hCalendar event brought to you by […]

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This past weekend I experienced my first Super Happy Dev-House convention/get together. I must say that never before have I met so many people that put me to shame. With this said however, I have learned more about online technologies from this than I have from any online tutorial or book. […]

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