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23 karma · joined September 1, 2011

Canadian senior developer, solution architect, and technical writer with many years experience. I specialize in system integration on Microsoft platforms.

I'm also a published author of several books (technical and non-technical).

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ewest··on Depression lies
Thanks for mentioning Camus - I had not heard of him until I read your post.

This is HN's best feature - the discussions are often better than the story and often offer new things to learn about.

ewest··on Now we’re not even allowed to link to the Olympics website?
The ToS could be open to interpretation...

It's possible the ToS may be saying the link text itself should be nice, etc.

So you could say something like, "The Olympics games are [insert your term here]", use the link text "Olympics" and you could be in the clear.

Use some derogatory text in place of [insert your term here], resulting in a visit by the link police who will extradite you for a long 'vacation' to some island in the northern Caribbean Sea.

ewest··on Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing
Maybe when you want the features in '4th release'

http://turnjs.com/get

ewest··on Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing
If your target market includes people that prefer physical books, make page turning much easier - or more obvious.

You also don't present any good use cases - why would I want to spend $99 on this? What does it do for me that a plain website cannot?

Consider presenting the benefits of your idea using your idea, like you did with the API docs, to demonstrate a practical use case.

Apart from those things - great idea!

ewest··on GlobaLeaks - Open Source Whistleblowing Framework
From what I found reading through some stuff, 'tulip' is the term used to describe whatever a whistle-blower uploads. It also has some meta-data including a point of discussion, so that the Global Leaks provider (the recipient of information) can ask the sender (the whistle-blower) to upload some more material or explain something. It seems tulips can be set, by the sender, to expire.

Here's a link to the tulip controller - you can mostly figure out what it does reading through the well-structured code:

https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/blob/master/globale...

ewest··on QArt codes, the better way to put picture in a QR code
I am trying to get this working on Windows - any ideas? I downloaded the Go build for windows (https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list) yet I have no idea how to build this app (QR.go)
ewest··on How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide
The article mentioned getting contacts in the press. I'd like to mention that I run a news site that also gets published in Google News, and often write and post all sorts of press releases.

News stories about your startup are possible too. Contact me via my email address in my profile for details.

ewest··on John McCarthy Has Died
Recently published article with some citations of McCarthy's contributions: http://goo.gl/luVMq [The Australian Eye News]
ewest··on NASA warns of geomagnetic storm after behemoth solar flare
This is actually yesterday's news. The storm is subsiding:

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=27&mo...

ewest··on Google Wallet pin code can be cracked in as little as 18 minutes
5683 spells out LOVE (yeah, pretty dumb). 3862 is far more appropriate.
ewest··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (September 2011)
SEEKING WORK - Remote

(...or on-site in the Toronto, Canada area)

Integration specialist using Microsoft BizTalk Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), WCF, C#, ASP.NET, etc.

I am a senior developer, solution architect, and technical writer with 10+ years hands-on experience with large, mid-size, and small organizations.

Located in Toronto, Canada area, capable of providing remote services. Infrastructure includes complete, licensed development environment based on Amazon EC2 instances.

Writing services available too: user docs, articles, search-friendly content, press releases, news, etc - contact me for details

* More info (technical and blog): http://ErikWestermann.com * Writing services: http://HQWebContent.com * Contact: hackernews [at] erikwestermann [dot] com

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