http://shout.setfive.com Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other day one of my friends jokingly mentioned that he thought strippers were being "marginalized" as profession. I thought this was funny, so I leveraged the powers of the internet to prove to him that in fact strippers are less marginalized then say podiatrists. Enter amimarginalized.com Anyway, with all of the ... http://shout.setfive.com/2009/01/03/playing-with-appjet/ Setfive would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy holidays.  We hope everyone has a great holiday season.  We'll be bringing in the new year with a bang, and look forward to working with you. Happy Holidays All! http://shout.setfive.com/2008/12/25/merry-christmas-and-happy-holidays/ As Firefox plugins go, Firebug is definitely one of my favorites. It has saved me and the rest of the Setfive team dozens of development hours. One of the nicest features of Firebug is the NET panel. The NET panel allows a developer to monitor HTTP requests that Firefox is ... http://shout.setfive.com/2008/12/18/json-explorer-for-firebug/ Today I want to take the chance to stress the importance of having someone onboard that knows some technology. Through our experience we've often had clients who were mislead or taken advantage of by other technology firms. Whether it is being given poor advice or being overcharged for ... http://shout.setfive.com/2008/12/05/importance-of-having-technical-knowledge-onboard/ So Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a pretty neat service called the Mechanical Turk. The name of the service is inspired by this story where a human was hidden inside a chess playing "robot" which impressed crowds during the late 18th century. Amazon's service doesn't hide the fact that its ... http://shout.setfive.com/2008/11/20/artificial-artificial-intelligence-our-experiance-with-mechanical-turk/ This is an update to our Twitter+Election '08 mashup that was over at Setfive Election HQ Well as everyone saw last Tuesday night, Obama won the election by a pretty significant margin and has all ready taken steps to announce his transition agenda. Anyway, at the end of our run, we ... http://shout.setfive.com/2008/11/12/timelapse-twitterelection-map/ We were sitting around tonight and decided to whip something together to leverage twitter to get some real time election information. It is ugly and open to bias but we're hopping it might show something interesting. We're also planning to take snapshots of the map and assemble a time lapse for Wednesday. See ... http://shout.setfive.com/2008/11/04/guestimating-the-election-with-twitter/ Recently I've been having one hell of a time with SQL Joins. It isn't that I don't understand how to use them, its that they have came to haunt me in completely opposite instances. First: An application I had written a while ago that was suppose to be kept ... http://shout.setfive.com/2008/10/07/joins-for-better-and-for-worst/ So things have been absolutely crazy since the summer ended. We realize we've been neglecting ye ole blog (all 5 of our readers), but I promise we'll have some goodies soon. In the meantime lets sit back and watch the fiasco that is the US economy... http://shout.setfive.com/2008/09/24/were-alive-we-promise/ I noticed that for some reason the 1.1 forms do not allow for the rich date input that many people like to use, so I just created a new widget that allows for rich date input. See below for the widget's code. It uses the input_date_tag widget in the 'Form' ... http://shout.setfive.com/2008/09/14/rich-date-input-widget-for-symfony-11-forms/