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Please follow me in my new site

May 31st, 2010 Petros No comments

The time has come to move on. If you like what you were reading, please follow me in my new site at http://amiridis.net

The new site is under construction so please be patient as I add more features to it, such as RSS feeds etc.

I use Ruby on Rails to create the site from scratch.

This site will no longer be available starting from tomorrow.

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Moving blog to something else

April 6th, 2010 Petros No comments

I was thinking about this for a long time. I want to move my blog to something else that will look like a blog but not exactly. It is going to be on a different URL too. There are four reasons behind this decision:

  1. My current hosting provider stops supporting Wordpress. (my blog runs on a shared hosting account)
  2. 7deeds doesn’t represent what I do or who I am anymore
  3. I want to include more activities that don’t really belong here but I don’t want to start 10 different blogs
  4. I want to promote my personal business(es)

As a programmer, I want to be a wise guy and also break the rule “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. I will not use any blogging or CMS platform. I will rather create it from scratch using Rails. Please feel free to call me names.

More about the move later. When everything is ready, I will notify you through the last post for this blog.

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Facebook voting request was ignored

April 26th, 2009 Petros No comments

The last few days, whenever I went to check out my Facebook account, I got a request from Facebook to vote saying if I agree with the latest changes or not.

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Students can earn $4500 this summer

March 30th, 2009 Petros No comments

Are you a student? Are you over 18 years old? Do you want to earn $4500 this summer? Do you love Rails and think you can contribute in core code? Then you should learn all about it at Get Paid to Work on Rails.

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Android

November 16th, 2007 Petros No comments

Nowadays, I use C# to write code most of the time. I don’t have the time I used to have for researching and learning new languages/frameworks/etc., but I try my best to learn something new, at least once every 8-12 months. My last try was Ruby on Rails. Still trying to tame the beast.

A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon Android, and I have to admit it looks really interesting. I would like to learn more about it and even develop a small application on my spare time (is there any?), although I would have to remember my Java along the way.

There is also an interesting competition going on for the best apps written for the platform, that could win quite a large amount of money.

Now, what is more difficult? Thinking an idea about a mobile app or implementing it?

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