I am now starting to use Twitter…it actually seems kind of cool. At first I was thinking it was more like Facebook status…but now I’m realizing it might be good for whenever I just have a random thought…to tweet it. http://twitter.com/xoclipse

Unfortunately the site has been down for quite a while, as I’ve been working on moving lots of server resources around. I’m waiting on the last thing to move right now, which should be done within the next 24 hours. Thank you all for being so patient! Update 12/23/08 7:30 PM EST: I just checked the status of the migration and its really close(hopefully in the next few hours!). Update 12/23/08 10:30 PM EST: I’m still waiting…I’m going to check in the morning… :(

Hey all, The developer API for MoosTrax is now available for use. You can get your devices, device info, current location, and history. Please see the reference here: http://moostrax.com/help/wiki/Developer_About

Well, its finally time. BlackBerryTracker.com will be no more on October 31, 2008. I have been working on a brand new site, MoosTrax.com, which will resume the tracking services previously offered by BlackBerryTracker. This site should be a little more user friendly, and much more stable, as I’m aware that quite a few people were having issues with the BlackBerryTracker site. Currently, the new site has Live Tracking, History, and a Facebook Application....

First, let me start off by saying that Cox’s customer service is absolutely terrible. I am only going to outline the most recent issue I’ve had with them in this post. My “problem” is simple. Here is a quick history… About 6 months ago I purchased a TiVo HD. It is able to access premium channels by using CableCARDs. After I brought the TiVo home, the next thing I needed was a CableCARD....

I’ve made a simple parser class for reading RSS feeds and a simple demo application for the iPhone that implements the iPhoneRSS class. The following example shows the usage for the RSS class. Basically, the class creates an NSArray of news items, and each object in the array is an NSDictionary. The dictionary contains the element name as the key. /* load feed from URL */ iPhoneRSS *rss = [[iPhoneRSS alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www....

I’ve just finished working on the initial release of OpenLBS. OpenLBS is an open source suite of location based software. The two initial components of the project are the client and the server. The server is Pylons-based project that implements the OpenLBS HTTP Specs. The client implements those same specs to work with the server. OpenLBS is useful if you want to run your own tracking server, or if you want to customize it according to your needs....

You can now add a Facebook application to your profile that will show your current location in a profile box. For more information, visit http://blackberrytracker.com/facebook.

This middleware will use the W3 Validator Service to check if your page is valid HTML. It will only check each URI once so that it doesn’t slow down your site by validating every page load. It does this by placing the result of each URI into a memory cache(using Beaker). You can then call cache_is_valid_xhtml() in your template to determine if the current page is valid. Note: The first time your page loads it will not display if the page is valid or not(It is validated AFTER the first response)....

As I stated previously how much I like Genshi…I’ve come to realize that the performance of Genshi under high traffic is very bad. It could be the complexity of the templates that I am using, but I’m only using a few py:match's and they are using once="true". I decided to benchmark Mako against Genshi for my site. Both templates are identical minus the syntactical differences of Genshi vs. Mako. I used the Apache HTTP server benchmark to test the site....