My dog is a line producer on ‘The Hills’
Don’t ask me why I was watching ‘The Hills’ today, but has anyone noticed that my dog, Sandy Cohen, is a line producer? I’m going to start garnishing his wages to pay for his expensive-assed dog food 
Liveblogging from iPhone with ScribbleLive
What kind of developer would I be if I didn’t have ScribbleLive working on an iPhone now that they’re finally available up here in Canada? 
Now when you go to www.scribblelive.com on your iPhone, you’ll get a version of the site that’s skinned for the smaller screen. I moved around a few things to make it more efficient, but essentially it works the same way it does in a normal browser. When you watch live events it will auto-update, and all your posts will still appear online in seconds!
There’s lots more iPhone-goodness coming to ScribbleLive soon, so make sure to follow us here or on Twitter. Happy liveblogging!
Google Calendar for Google App accounts on iPhone
For some reason, the mobile version of Google Calendar (calendar.google.com on your iPhone) doesn’t allow you to login to Google App accounts. I clicked around every Google Mobile page in existence and couldn’t find a link to Google Calendar that let’s you sign-in to your Google Apps account. So as a last-ditch attempt, I tried taking the URL from my full-sized version of GCal and it worked!
For reference, if you want the mobile version of your Google Calendar for your Google App account, navigate on your iPhone to http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/YOUR_DOMAIN.com/
You can’t edit your events, but it’s free so what do you expect 
And yes, by this post you can assume that I bought a 3G iPhone
Did *anyone* watch ‘Flashpoint’ last night?
I’m surfing around this morning trying to find one review of ‘Flashpoint’ last night (the new show on CTV/CBS). On TV.com there’s only 87 votes for it, so I’m guessing not many people decided to stay home and watch another cop show on a beautiful summer Friday night. That’s great scheduling CTV and CBS I hope the simulcasting deal was worth dropping your big new show on a night where no one was watching
My last week at CTV
It’s been tough making the decision to leave CTV, but as my last day approaches this Friday, it’s more and more obvious that I made the right choice.
In the course of my 4 years with CHUM Limited, which was later purchased by CTV, I have worked on a lot of websites. The short list in no particular order (the ones in bold I was involved in building from the ground-up):
Pulse24, Muchmusic, Muchmoremusic, TheNewMusic, Spacecast, CityNews, CP24, Bravo, CityLine, 1050Chum, TheNewVR, TheNewVI, A-Channel (Barrie, London, Ottawa, Victoria, Windsor, Wingham), Citytv (Toronto, Vancouver), BNN, Star!, Maxfact, Bravofact, The Comedy Network Video Player, TSN Video Player, Discovery Channel Video Player, CTV Video Player, CTV News Video Player, Razer, PunchMuch, SexTV, and FashionTelevision.
The highlight of career has definitely been the new video players that my team built this year (CTV flavour here).
I can’t really say anything else for now, but I’ll miss the people I work with and wish them all the luck in the future. As for me, it’s time for me to try to write my own future…
Sandy at the beach
Can anybody tell me if it’s safe for my dog to go into Lake Ontario? I’m afraid he’ll grow a second head or something.
ScribbleLive now has on-the-fly translation
Since we launched ScribbleLive a few weeks ago, we’ve been excited to see a lot of people from around the world starting to use it. I built the code from the ground-up to support other languages, but we weren’t planning on rolling anything out so soon. But because of all the great interest, we decided to launch our first international feature.
Now when you are blogging in any language, people from around the world can watch along through our new on-the-fly translation feature. We can translate to English, French, Spanish, Italian and German for now. More to come later.
Say you are blogging in Italian, visitors from around the world can choose a language from the “Translate” box, and all your posts will be translated to that language for them. Not only will it translate all the posts that are already there, but it will translate whatever you type when it appears on their screen.
The translation may still have a few bugs to shake out, but I’d love to get your thoughts. I’ve been catching up on the Italian WWDC blog myself
Have fun!
Welcome to Keebler/Blog
A random assortment of ramblings about the media, the web and Rachel Bilson.
- Sites I work on in my free time:
- ScribbleLive
- WhyYouShould