Category Archives: General
On KISSmetrics
I think Hiten Shah, CEO of KISSmetrics, is too distracted with recent lawsuits to understand the mistake his company made: not looking out for their customers. Legality of using ETag for tracking or reusing same ETag hash across domains is … Continue reading
Cinemetrics
Cinemetrics is a promising example of Identicon IMO. Similar efforts have been made audio clips. Cinemetrics aims to create a visual “fingerprint” for film using the editing structure, color, speech and motion. Design challenge in generating interesting ‘fingerprint’ depends largely on the … Continue reading
Identicon and Robohash
This post is a dump [for archival purpose] of exchange between Colin Davis, creator of Robohash, and I that took place in context of a Hacker News about Robohash. Colin: Identicons are a great idea, I really love them.. They’re … Continue reading
What is Identicon?
Word identify has two meaning: Establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is. Recognize or distinguish. I chose the name Identicon with second meaning in mind to convey that Identicons’ intended applications are in helping users recognize or … Continue reading
Identicon and QR Code
I was recently asked to provide some information on identicons, a good excuse to restart blogging. This post, more like notes actually, compares Identicon to QR code which may seem similar visually but are not. WARNING: I think in random … Continue reading
Installing sqlite3-ruby gem on Snow Leopard
Problem: After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I had to rebuild/reinstall MacPorts and RubyGems as recommended. While doing this, I found that sqlite3-ruby gem install failed with errors related to extconf.rb file. Solution: Not sure why this works but I found … Continue reading
Using JSP with Jersey JAX-RS Implementation
This post shows you some tips you’ll likely need to use JSP with Jersey in typical Java webapps. Tested Conditions While Jersey 1.1.1-ea or later is probably the only hard requirement for the tips to work, my development environment is … Continue reading
Fixed Aptana RadRails GEM_LIB issue on m…
Fixed Aptana RadRails GEM_LIB issue on mac by linking ‘/Users/{user}/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems’ to ‘/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems’. I can’t blame Aptana for this since it was me who chose to use a tool built by a company that spread itself too thin. I doubt they … Continue reading
Smiley Profile Image Set
I wish I could use a set of profile images instead of just one and have appropriate one displayed based on text content so that if I put a smiley like or in the text, photo of me smiling or … Continue reading
Trying Twitter/Facebook-like P2 theme to…
Trying Twitter/Facebook-like P2 theme to see if that’ll get me to post more often. I did change default template’s post body font size and added side paddings for easier reading.
