Advogato blog for johnnyb

27 Jan 2012

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:07:31 GMT

Just released a new cross-media exploration iPad app called Moomat. Check it out!

See it on the app store

Anyway, I'm pretty proud of it. Check it out!

12 Jan 2012

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:38:49 GMT

I've been working on using PostgreSQL for fuzzy matching, and posted a blog entry about my work:

Trigrams and fuzzy searching for PostgreSQL

22 Dec 2011

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:51:43 GMT

Do you enjoy Skyrim's alchemy? See how modern herbalists make use of herbal actions

26 Sep 2011

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:49:51 GMT

Conference announcement - Engineering and Metaphysics - June 15-16, 2012. Should be a great conference. I'll post more info later.

22 Jun 2011

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:52:30 GMT

Starting up a new project - Newm. Basically, it is Objective-C on rails. Come and participate if you are interested!

19 May 2011

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:10:42 GMT

Just posted a new article on how spirituality has influenced physics over the last few centuries.

5 May 2011

Thu, 5 May 2011 15:33:23 GMT

Thought some of you might be interested in my tutorial on how to create a reusable iphone widget with Interface Builder.

20 Feb 2011

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:38:25 GMT

I have a chapter in the newly released book, Sacred Cows in Science. The book contains chapters by 17 authors and covers a variety of alternative ideas in science from biology to physics to sociology. My chapter is on whether genetic mutations are accidental or regulated (or both). Anyway, check out the book!

8 Sep 2010

Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:44:52 GMT

I posted my criticism of the green movement here .

26 May 2010

Wed, 26 May 2010 04:29:31 GMT

Just released a new Javascript/Twitter/Google Maps integration tool. Also has a Rails plugin, which gives you more control, but is perfectly usable with HTML- only. See the Twitter, Google Maps, and Rails goodness here.