The blog of Abraham Williams

Update : I now recommend you install Google Chrome  and  disable  the built in Browser as it supports encrypting all synced data. After picking up a gorgeous  Galaxy Nexus yesterday I was running into an issue where my browser data wasn't syncing to the phone. After a little Googling I found this is commonly caused by having all of my synced Chrome data encrypted instead of the default of only encrypting the passwords. These are the steps I went through to get my dat syncing again without losing any of it. The exact error I was getting was "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." In Google Chrome open the personal stuff settings page by clicking this link or by opening the wrench menu, and click on "signed in with example@gmail.com".  Hit "disconnect your Google Account" to temporarily disable syncing from your browser. Visit the Google Dashboard and "Stop sync and delete data from Google". I waite...

This past weekend I built a simple Audio RPG using Twilio . You call a number and get injected into a storyline where you have to make decisions on how to procede. For example you might happen upon a NPC and get prompted to try and be friends, run away, or attack. This blog post will outline two methods for creating the prompt and directing the caller as needed. At the basic level a Twilio phone menu for is TwiML (aka TwiML ) that specifies how many digits to gather and where to send those digits for further instructions. This will gather digits until the caller hits the # key at which point Twilio will make a GET request to process.php including a GET variable of Digits with the value entered by the caller. One aspect of the Audio RPG that was important to me was that it not require a server and that it should be easy to add story arcs. Originally I started with static TwiML on Gist but quickly ran into issues with Gist delivering the raw TwiML as Content-Type: text/plain ....

Update: Support for the Digg button has been added but is not reflected in the images. Just above this text you will see three buttons. One each for @ Digg , Google Buzz , @ Facebook , and @ Twitter . The following instructions detail how to add the same buttons to your Blogger blog. 1) From your Blogger dashboard click on Design. 2) After which select the Edit HTML tab. 3) Now you can see the HTML that makes the guts of your blog but not all of it. Expand the Widget Templates and to see the rest. 4) Scroll down or control/command-f to do a search for the following line of code. 5) Just above that line insert the following code. This will put all three share button under neath the title on each single post page. Fill in the data-via value with your Twitter screen_name. If you wish you can remove the data-related value. 6) Save the template. If you visit a blog post you should now see the three buttons but alas something is amiss. The three buttons are not ali...