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Beer Brewing: Phase One

This past Friday, my friends and I went to the Eagle Rock Brewing Co, a new Brewery that recently opened not far from our place, to taste some of their brews and visit a Vietnamese noodle truck that happened to be parked out front. The beer was excellent, especially their seasonal Libertine Imperial Amber Wit. [...]
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A Clockwork Green Beta

I am excited to announce the open beta of A Clockwork Green, a side project I have been working on in my spare time. A Clockwork Green allows you to keep track of time you spend on different projects by simply starting or stopping the clock, and providing a description of what you worked on during [...]
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Hello 2008!

  2007 was a great year for me. I finished by bachelors degree, travelled through Europe, moved back home and had a little time off, found a job, and finally moved to Santa Monica.I’ve learned a lot about the world and myself this year, and I’m excited about what’s next in 2008. I look forward to [...]
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Facebook Application release 2

I’ve been learning a bit more today, and I’ve made my application completely object oriented, as well as integrating both brodrigu.net and trippin blogs (denoted by either a blue or green icon respectively). If everything goes according to plan, this post should also add a news feed item so everyone will know I have written [...]
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My first Facebook application

I decided to try out the new facebook f8 development platform today by writing my own facebook application. I got a very basic app running that displays the most recent blog posts from brodrigu.net. I hope to improve it tomorrow by adding the my trippin’ blog, and making updates automatic. This was also my first [...]
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How to add your Netflix queue to Wordpress

I recently added my Netflix queue to my W sidebar, and though a quick tutorial on how to do it would be in order. First, make sure you have updated to the most recent version of Wordpress (2.1 at the time or writing), it comes bundled with the Magpie RSS parser. Next all you have to [...]
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Netflix RSS

Utilizing the RSS feeds that NetFlix provides and the Magpie RSS parser that is packaged with Wordpress, I can now display my NetFlix queue in the sidebar of my blog right beneath my flickr photos. I hope you all enjoy laughing at some of the titles you might see. EDIT: To find out how to add [...]
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VW Horn

Today I was driving home and Noticed a VW Beetle ahead of me had a malfunctioning horn. This particular horn malfunction was rather unfortunate, yet comical. The horn would “honk” (not “beep”) at seemingly random times. Surrounding drivers would stare at the driver of the bug thinking she was honking at them. This scene may [...]
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PHP iCalendar

I have installed PHP iCalendar 2.22. It was pretty easy, all I had to do was download the zip file here, unzip it in my desired directory, and edit the cofiguration page. PHP iCalendar also inclludes a sweet php powered page which mimicks WEBDAV, allowing you to publish your iCal calendars. I uploaded my class [...]
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My First Wikipedia Post

My friend Brianne left her Ross road bike to me when she moved to Scotland with Kate. I had never heard of the brand before, so naturally I turned to Wikipedia to find some information on it. To my surprise, there were no articles about Ross bicycles anywhere on Wikipedia. I decided this was [...]
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