Category Archives: Tech

Why use Google hosted jQuery

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Loïc

Here are the benefits of using the Google hosted jQuery libraries: By using the Google hosted jQuery libraries, since many applications use the Google infrastructure, when someone comes to your application, the Google hosted files may already be loaded into … Continue reading →

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iPhones can do anything!

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Loïc

I just downloaded the free WordPress iPhone App, from the iTunes App store, and within two minutes I was writing this post. I’m having a vision of a new world, in the not too distant future, where us humans will … Continue reading →

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SSH and SCP with keys instead of passwords

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Loïc

I’m writing about this bit of useful shell scripting, mostly so I know where to find it when I might need it again. I needed to set up automatic backups using a shell script in Mac OS X, to copy … Continue reading →

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ZIP Code Nerdiness

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Loïc

I’ve been playing around with some web services, trying to gather ZIP code data, but quickly realized that it would take forever to gather up all of the US ZIP codes—there are just under 80,000 of them. So I bit … Continue reading →

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