http://www.mattking.org Too many projects, too little time Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:09:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do you live in Portland? Do you ride the bus? Need to know when the next bus is going to arrive at your stop? Have an iPhone? Then I have an app for YOU! Trimet Tracker allows you find any stop and get upcoming arrival times. Now you can also get ... http://www.mattking.org/2008-07/trimet-tracker-for-iphone-updated.html I updated last year's post about what to do in Portland while you're at RailsConf, adding a few places and taking some out. Just want to help all you geeks from out of town avoid Red Robin and Starbucks. Get out there and find these places! Read about what to do ... http://www.mattking.org/2008-05/what-to-do-in-portland-when-youre-at-railsconf-2008.html I've updated the tutorial on how to install ImageMagick from source on OS X, with links to the latest libraries and commands updated to reflect some changes for Leopard. http://www.mattking.org/2008-02/quick-update-on-installing-imagemagick-on-os-x.html Writing web applications for almost 10 years, I can't count how many admin tools I've written. Having worked on so many, I've developed a programming pattern for creating them. However almost every time I make a new one, I find myself trying a new layout and navigation style. Frequently I look ... http://www.mattking.org/2008-01/searching-for-the-perfect-admin-tool.html Recently I started riding the bus again full time...if not to save the environment, but to save my nerves from dealing with traffic. After a few days I was reminded about one of the things that bothered me about riding the bus: I hated not knowing exactly when the next ... http://www.mattking.org/2008-01/track-trimet-on-your-iphone.html The other day my friend Jason Glaspey showed me how he made an Excitebike ringtone with MakeiPhoneRingtone by actually ripping audio from a Youtube video, pulling it through and audio editor then finally dropping into MakeiPhoneRingtone to be able to put it on his phone. Being the NES nerd I am, ... http://www.mattking.org/2007-12/28-nes-iphone-ringtones.html Inspired by a post over at Silicon Florist about following local people on Twitter, I investigated whether it was possible to follow someone in a geographic area. The closest I found was TwitterVision, which is a great idea, but doesn't exactly do what I want. So I ended up taking ... http://www.mattking.org/2007-10/twitterwhere-filter-tweets-by-location.html Apparently I am not using the right programming language. If I wrote in .NET, I might be able to hang out with these developers, having a much better time than I am recompiling and uploading DLLs in between hunting for Hello Kitty collectibles and watching The Real World. Maybe the ... http://www.mattking.org/2007-10/microsoft-developers-are-hot.html I added a gallery of the last 10 images so everyone can see what you submissions. Check Out OdenRant.com http://www.mattking.org/2007-09/quick-update-on-odenrant.html If you live in Portland you've probably heard already: Greg Oden, the Blazers' #1 draft pick this year, just got sidelined for the entire upcoming season due to knee injury. There's lots of "I told you so!"s going around right now, but poor Greg Oden hasn't said much about it. Well here's ... http://www.mattking.org/2007-09/odenrant-what-are-they-saying.html