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2013-05-17 19:18:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Spring Cleaning - 

I have to admit. The new Google+ interface is a welcome change to the great #whitespace  debacle of 2012. It's probably time for me to start removing some of my old pro-Google+ helper projects, though. Should probably update my profile too.

2013-05-17 12:17:35 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Great, now I'm getting random emails that people I dont' know tried to hangout with me while I was away. What has Google messed up now?

2013-04-01 22:52:53 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

JIRA Jr. - 

I lol'd at 1:03.

via +Alan Seales 

2013-03-28 22:01:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Happy 100th Anniversary of the Income Tax - 

To celebrate, I'll be spending a few days ahead of me fighting with the NC Department of Revenue to get my tax refund. You see, today I received a letter stating they would not be giving me my refund because the estimated taxes I paid last year did not match their records. (In other words, the NCDOR is incompetent.) Tomorrow, I have to call and try to calmly show them all of the receipts, which I have. I also have the cleared payments on my bank statements. I also have email confirmation numbers and document numbers. Now, why is it that I have been able to keep track of all of this information but they haven't?

Of course, I didn't see this letter until after 5pm today, so their office is closed. Oh but wait, there's a notice in here that says they have extended hours during tax season, from 8am to 6pm!  Wonderful. Ic... more »

2013-03-27 22:07:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Fast Planet - Mr. Conversation - 

The new single from Fast Planet is finally out!

+Jared Rawlinson 

2013-03-17 13:09:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Today's weather is brought to you by the number 54.

2013-03-14 18:43:55 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Student Freelance - 

So I heard about this site today. Tried to post a job, but their account activation system doesn't appear to be working. I couldn't help but wonder... was studentfreelance.com built by students?? ;)

2013-03-11 22:14:37 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Cosmic Cart - 

If you were just dying to know what I've been up to lately, head over to cosmiccart.com. Soft launch soon. Sign up if you enjoy social shopping (particularly looking for shoe fanatics right now,) or if you have goods you'd like to sell from any site on the web, or if you'd like to monetize your content by turning your media into purchasable products.

We're in the process of shoring up a seed round. Gonna show the world the real talent is in Durham, NC. #represent

Would you like to know more?

2013-03-08 16:30:38 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

TestFlight - The Best App/Service You'll Ever Use -

Why is this free? That's my main question regarding iOS beta-testing service phenom, TestFlight. +H. Wade Minter hooked me up with the link recently, and I have to say: this is the best app I've ever used...ever. Ok, app/service, whatever. (Everything is an app now, right?) No matter what you call it, I have nothing but love for it. TestFlight calls it "Painless App Distribution," and they hit the nail on the head. Everything just works. It just does. And it's smooth as silk. The UX is amazing. I said to myself, "Self, don't you wish they had a native OSX client so you didn't have to use a browser to upload?" Lo and behold, a link to download the native OSX client appeared, and all was well. Absolutely amazing. And, strangely, free.

2013-03-01 15:03:05 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Google Apps No Longer Free (And No Longer Work?) - 

I'm going to try to suppress my geek rage while I type this, but I have a need to get signed up with Gmail for Biz (the new paid version,) and Google does not want to let that happen. So, I want to pay, and they don't want me to sign up. Let me explain...

I started the signup process for Biz Gmail. Created an account, tra la la, etc. Then, I get to the verification process. Everything looks different at this point. "Different" meaning "not the way verification used to work when things were free." So they have this little "wizard" thing that let's you pick your registrar to do your validation. Ok, I'd rather add the DNS TXT entry to Route 53. There are no special instructions provided for Route 53, but it's not that difficult to add a TXT record, so I do it. Doesn't work. Oh... more »

2013-02-18 17:16:05 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

TeamSnap Press - 

TeamSnap, one of the startups I'm working with, is getting some press on VentureBeat.

http://teamsnap.com

2013-02-06 14:48:33 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Amazon Fail - 

Was very interested in moving my cloud hosting needs from Rackspace to Amazon Web Services, and then Amazon went and screwed up the registration process. Contact Info? Check. Credit Card? Check. Phone-based PIN verification: ultimate fail whale.

So to create an account, Amazon has to call you, and you have to enter the PIN displayed on the screen. OK, no big deal. A little annoying. I guess it prevents bot signups. Anyway, the first attempt, I get no call. The page refreshes to tell me I didn't enter the proper PIN. (Darn right I didn't...never got a call!) Second attempt, still no call. Again it tells me I didn't enter the proper PIN. (Starting to really irk me at this point.) Third attempt, I actually GET a call...HOORAY! I enter the PIN displayed on the screen. The robot-lady on the phone tells me it's not correct. I try it again. The... more »

2013-02-05 23:51:12 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Ultimate 3D Printing - 

Nothing is blowing my mind more right now than 3D printing of any kind, but especially this.

2013-01-28 20:42:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Fast Most of Every Day - 

I've done this (albeit involuntarily) most of my adult life.

2013-01-21 17:38:39 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Map your LTE Coverage - 

So LTE just came on in my neck of the woods. Looks like sensorly.com has some great apps for mapping out precisely what is covered. I tried the iPhone app, and it's a bit borked, but apparently the Android app is solid.

via +Enrico Poole 

2013-01-19 00:47:46 (24 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Ok Sprint's LTE is already looking much better.

2013-01-18 23:53:25 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Sprint LTE just came on here in Durham, NC. Looking good so far, but I'm hoping for more.

2013-01-16 18:54:20 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

For the libertarian-minded intellectuals amongst us.

2013-01-09 18:54:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So Long... - 

...and thanks for all the fish! (I swear these guys are about to jet into space.)

2013-01-09 17:56:01 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Go To Hell, AIG - 

Leave it to a "too-big-to-fail"-er like AIG to take taxpayer money to stay afloat, only to turn around and sue (or even consider suing) said taxpayer for not giving AIG the money on AIG's terms. In other words, they think they can hold our economy hostage for a bailout and then hold us hostage for more cash once the terms of the bailout have been met.

Here is a (profanely long) list of AIG subsidiaries. If you have any business with any of them, I highly encourage you to sever all ties. 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12986789/American-International-Group-Inc-and-Subsidiaries

2012-12-24 00:37:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Cosmic Cart on Tech Cocktail - 

Here's the article following our presentation at Tech Cocktail in Vegas. Hooray for press! =)

#cosmiccart

2012-12-20 00:26:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Sprint 4G LTE in Raleigh/Durham - 

Finally! Sprint will be rolling out 4G LTE LMNOP coverage to my neck of the woods in the next few months!

2012-12-18 20:58:11 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Best Holiday Music Ever - 

I would spend all of my money at the first store I hear play these on infinite repeat. #hailcthulhu  

+Leo DiNapoli +Kent Dezendorf 

2012-12-13 19:27:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I am sure +Tim Holmes would rather wear a full sweater suit though..


http://goo.gl/SVG0I

#Batman   #hoodie  

2012-12-13 18:18:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Transhuman Me Up - 

I'm ready for the retinal eye mods. How do I get on the wait list?

2012-12-12 20:10:08 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

2012-12-12 15:40:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A Simple Walk Into Mordor - 

Ok, I'm not necessarily sharing this because the video is outstanding (it's not, really,) but the comments on this io9 post are. See, the poster attributed the movie quote, "One does not simply walk into Mordor" to Aragorn, but the commenters are blasting him for getting that wrong. (It was clearly Boromir, who is even in the video saying it.) My favorite comment:

is Boba Fett the captain of the Millenium Falcon in your world?

#nerdrage  

2012-12-10 23:02:14 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

Bane Is A Nutrition Nut - 

A bit long, but it's pretty funny...especially the Batman cameos.

2012-12-10 02:14:47 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Found A Reason To Get A Wii U - 

...and it's in the form of the strangest fighting game I think I've ever seen.

2012-12-09 20:15:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Getting Acquainted With Amazon EC2 - 

For the longest time, I've been using Rackspace Cloud Servers for all of my deployments. Now, I'm finally looking into Amazon's AWS stuff. I gotta say: my first impression of this are that it's way more mature than Rackspace. The tooling alone destroys Rackspace's offerings.

I'm starting with setting up my own instance and configuring Tomcat manually. I looked at their Elastic Beanstalk and quickly decided I don't know what's going on there well enough yet to use it. Baby steps. =)

2012-12-09 00:43:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Dear friends,

Cosmic Cart was just selected to present at Tech Cocktail's Startup Showcase. They are taking a poll to find the "hottest startup". +Matt Senter, +Pearson Cunningham, and I would appreciate your support in voting for +Cosmic Cart. It's easy -- no sign up required! Thank you for your time.

Link: http://tech.co/tech-cocktail-week-hottest-showcasing-startup-2012-12 

Best,
Alex

2012-12-08 15:03:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Filed IntelliJ Bug: Maven Overlays - 

For the IntelliJ users, I filed a bug for the problem I was having with Ultimate 12.

PS Looks like someone needs to add some metadata to their bug tracking software so it looks pretty when shared. =)

2012-12-08 01:49:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

No More Free Google Apps For Business - 

Just started getting email notifications about this for all of my existing free Google Apps For Business accounts. Oh well, I guess I can't create any more free ones from now on. I'll find something else. =)

2012-12-08 01:21:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

IntelliJ IDEA 12 Maven Support? - 

I'm trying to find sanity in an IDE, escaping the Eclipse+m2e hell. I've evaluated IntelliJ in the past and never really liked it, but version 12 seems to work a lot more smoothly than Eclipse could ever dream to.

...except for the fact that the maven support doesn't seem to include overlays. I use war dependency overlays to share common web resources amongst numerous war modules. I've submitted a support ticket and tweeted @intellijidea, but they are probably too busy to listen to little old me.

Thing is, IntelliJ Ultimate isn't free, and I'd be happy to pay for it...if it worked. Right now, it's not working. Why? Why isn't it working?? For once in my life, I just want to open a project and have everything go according to plan.

Any IntelliJ experts out there who can help?

2012-12-08 01:19:28 (17 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

IntelliJ IDEA 12 Maven Support? - 

I'm trying to find sanity in an IDE, escaping the Eclipse+m2e hell. I've evaluated IntelliJ in the past and never really liked it, but version 12 seems to work a lot more smoothly than Eclipse could ever dream to.

...except for the fact that the maven support doesn't seem to include overlays. I use war dependency overlays to share common web resources amongst numerous war modules. I've submitted a support ticket and tweeted @intellijidea, but they are probably too busy to listen to little old me.

Thing is, IntelliJ Ultimate isn't free, and I'd be happy to pay for it...if it worked. Right now, it's not working. Why? Why isn't it working?? For once in my life, I just want to open a project and have everything go according to plan.

Any IntelliJ experts out there who can help?

2012-12-07 21:38:18 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

DragonCon 2013: Getting There - 

Thanks to
+Cody Stamps and +Amanda Blain for allowing me to be a co-moderator of this community. (They beat me to it!) I've run dragonconforums.org with a friend of mine for the past few years. Hopefully we can cross-pollinate the two. I know the main thing people are going to want to figure out is their room situations given that everything is sold out in the host hotels and probably for a good five-mile radius for 2013. The best thing to do is to keep track of all posts everywhere on the Internets. (No small feat!) If you know of rooms opening up (either by cancellation or new blocks,) please post here and at http://dragonconforums.org/get-me-there!-(now-also-with-roomshare!)/ so everyone can be in the know.

That being said, who else got a room in the Marriott? That's where I'll be staying next year!

2012-12-07 18:41:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Introductions - 

Hi all. I'm Matt. I've been developing with Java for 13 years. (Man, that seems like a really long time.) My main areas of expertise are in server-side Java, particularly with the Spring Framework (including a large number of Spring sub-projects,) and Android development. I also work in any other language as deemed necessary by my clients, including Objective-C for iOS, but my entire world generally revolves around server-side Java since every app has to talk to a server at some point, right? =)

I do freelance work under the moniker +Kungfuters. I also try to stay active in the Startup community, currently taking on a lead development role with up-and-coming Cosmic Cart.

Introduce yourselves! =)

2012-12-07 18:10:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Java Developers Community - 

I know people are probably sick of invitations to communities by now, so I figured I'd post an open invitation to the public to come join my Java Developers community. You don't necessarily have to currently be a Java Developer. Maybe you are just interested in learning Java. At any rate, here it is. See you inside.

2012-12-07 02:10:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Where my D*C peeps at??

2012-12-05 12:57:18 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Woke up with the Muppet Babies theme song in my head. Psychoanalyze me, please.

2012-12-02 22:55:25 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The Hawkeye Initiative - 

Ya know how superheroines always seem to be drawn in the most awkward positions to show off all of their assets in one frame? This project replaces those women with Hawkeye. It's probably the best thing I've seen all evening.

2012-12-02 04:54:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm on MySpace - 

...for the first time ever. Find me at https://new.myspace.com/mattsenter

Mad props to +Dano Hart 

2012-12-01 16:08:53 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Drink All The Coffees! - 

I can haz as much coffee as I want. I meet the "otherwise healthy lifestyle" caveat, making coffee nutritious for me in every way, shape, and form! =)

via +Josh Harness 

2012-12-01 15:08:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Roger Rabbit 2 - 

Coming in 2013 or so.

2012-11-30 17:29:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Humans Have Stripes - 

I wonder if this will become a cosmetic enhancement of the future: getting your stripes highlighted?

2012-11-29 22:51:47 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

So Say We All... - 

...go to Sweden next year and LARP our frakkin hearts out?

2012-11-28 01:35:30 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Upgrading Eclipse to Use Android 4.2 SDK? - 

Don't. I'll save you a couple of hours of frustration right now. Reinstall instead of upgrading!

1) Uninstall all of the Android components from Eclipse first.

About Eclipse -> Installation Details -> Uninstall...

2) Blow away your entire Android SDK installation. Mine was at /usr/local/android, for example.

3) Download the Android SDK again, and put it in place (for example at /usr/local/android) http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

4) Use the command line to load the SDK manager:
/usr/local/android/tools/android sdk
(You may have to precede this by setting the location of ANDROID_SWT to /usr/local/android/tools/lib/x86_64 or your location of swt.jar.)

5) Reinstall everything you need from scratch using the SDK manager.

6) Back ine... more »

2012-11-27 23:00:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

TeamSnap 2.0 for Android - 

Here's a project of which I'm proud to have been a part. If you manage a team/group/gaggle of people who participate in the same sport/activity/thingamajig, you might be interested in managing your efforts via TeamSnap.

2012-11-24 17:03:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Working with SSL and OpenJDK 7?

Here, let me save you some time. The cacerts file is initially empty for OpenJDK 7. That's why you can't connect to any SSL-encrypted website using Apache HttpComponents 4.2 and DefaultHttpClient...without first building your truststore (i.e. cacerts entries.)

2012-11-18 00:09:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Sky High, The Darren Jesse Version - 

+Alan Seales might like this. It's the Hotel Lights demo of Sky High, which made it onto the new Ben Folds Five album.