Author Archives: Gary Burge

Emergency Landing from Inside the Cockpit

By Gary Burge | Published: May 17, 2009
Flight instructor Kyle Davis got a chance to test his own abilities April 19, 2009, when the engine on his small plane quit multiple times and he was forced to land on two lanes of a four-lane road in Winter Haven, FL.
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links for 2009-05-16

By Gary Burge | Published: May 16, 2009
Debugging a CodeIgniter application with FirePHP FirePHP extends FireBug functionalities to show log or error messages coming from your PHP application. These messages won’t be printed on the application interface but instead on the FireBug console. (tags: FirePHP FireBug Firefox extensions debug)
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links for 2009-05-15

By Gary Burge | Published: May 15, 2009
HP Notebook PC Battery Pack Replacement Program HP announced voluntary recalls and replacement programs for some of the battery packs used in certain HP notebooks. HP customers affected by these programs will be eligible to receive a replacement battery pack for each verified, recalled battery pack at no cost. (tags: HP notebook batteries recalls) HP [...]
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links for 2009-05-14

By Gary Burge | Published: May 14, 2009
Google Code Blog: Google OpenID API – taking the next steps The new popup style UI, which implements the OpenID User Interface Extension Specification, is designed to streamline the federated login experience for users. Specifically, it's designed to ensure that the context of the Relying Party website is always available and visible, even in the [...]
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links for 2009-05-13

By Gary Burge | Published: May 13, 2009
Etsy Developer Community – Etsy Developer Community and API Etsy is your place to buy and sell all things handmade. Now developers can tap into this vibrant, global marketplace with the Etsy API. The Etsy API provides a range of API methods for you to start building your own applications on top of the Etsy [...]
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links for 2009-05-12

By Gary Burge | Published: May 12, 2009
Pushpin Collections Free PushPin datasets and map layers (tags: PushPin map layers census counties zipcodes) Pushpin Location REST API Documentation: Beta The Location REST API is a fast, convenient way to retrieve location and statistical information about places. This early version of the API focuses only on places that are administratively-defined within the USA (states, [...]
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  • About Gary Burge

    I am an experieced web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.

    My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.

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