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Cash Rewards: Gamification Gets Monetary

By Matt Farmer ⋅ January 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Gamification is a concept that has been around for awhile. The gist of the idea is that if you wish to encourage a group of people to do something, then an excellent way to do that is to give them points and/or awards of some kind for doing whatever it is that you want them [...]

Hello, IFTTT: Introduction to Internet Automation

By Matt Farmer ⋅ January 1, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

So, you guys know that I’m a fan of doing as little work as possible. So naturally when I hear about a service that could do some of my menial labor for me – such as syndicating the content of my blog posts – I’m all in. Enter a new service called “If this, then [...]

I WANT ONE!

By Matt Farmer ⋅ March 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Ok, so anyone who would like to know what I want for Christmas, just watch this video. This guy made a Mario-Style Coin box that spits out coins when you punch it. It would be so much fun to build one of these and just stick it in a public hallway to see what people [...]

Reeder for Mac: Just beautiful!

By Matt Farmer ⋅ February 8, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

So, this semester I’m taking a Human-Computer Interaction course. Essentially, I’m taking the course to get some much needed experience in an area that far too often thwarts a developer’s attempts at fame a fortune: the User Interface. The Human-Computer Interaction area is all about studying how certain design decisions by developers can change the User [...]

Chrome Extension adds Picture of Wales to EVERY WEBPAGE

By Matt Farmer ⋅ November 20, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

I love it when I log into Twitter and find something that literally makes me laugh out loud. For those of us who are regular visitors of Wikipedia, I’m sure you’ve noticed the intimidating picture of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales appearing on the top of every page asking for a donation over the last several [...]

More Breast Cancer Internet Memes?

By Matt Farmer ⋅ October 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

So, there have been a lot of silly Internet Memes that have started over the past several years. For example: “Rick Rolling” and “The Internet is for Porn”, just to name a few. But in 2010, it seems “Breast Cancer Awareness” memes have really been taking off (you’ll see why I put that in quotes [...]

University of Florida Security Fail

By Matt Farmer ⋅ September 30, 2010 ⋅ One comment

I love it when, while rummaging around old websites, I find links to events that are relevant to the current day on accident. Today, I bring to your attention a security incident that happened at the University of Florida. Quite frankly, I’d love to break down the incident of what happened, but I really think [...]

Easter Eggs: The programmer’s joke.

By Matt Farmer ⋅ September 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Programmers like jokes, but for this one to make any remote sense to any of the non-geek friends that I have reading this blog, let me try to do a little bit of background. So, one of the fun things you learn about when you run your own web server – after you learn about [...]

Aug 24: Facebook starts lawsuit, new iPhone anti-theft, and more!

By Matt Farmer ⋅ August 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Good Tuesday to all of you. I’m back again with a news roundup for today. Overall it’s a pretty interesting day, so if you’re interesting in seeing what I’ve compiled, read on!

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