This is Nick Oba's haphazardly maintained blog. For my personal website, see Nick Oba Dot Com, though be warned that you might become temporarily incontinent by its sheer technical sophistication.

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Over the years I've developed increasingly sophisticated web apps such as Ah Yer! (sold in 2008). Qondio (sold in 2010). In November, 2010, we released Qirina, a keyword analysis engine, (sold in 2011). My current project is something quite ambitious.

Qirina, keyword analysis engine

I Like Scriptiny!

Posted March 30, 2012 by headhopper and filed under respect

Earlier today I was hunting around for some Javascript and came across Scriptiny, a pretty awesome resource for web developers. The coder who maintains this site is a high-caliber web developer who for some inexplicable reason shares all his work. There's a bunch of...

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Join Me on Zurker!

Posted February 18, 2012 by evangelism and filed under

Facebook is so lame. It's going where MySpace went. The new social network is Zurker! Zurker is totally awesome and so very very cool because it makes a distinction about news that's relevant to you personally - like someone liked your comment - and news that's interesting...

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My Name is Nick Oba

Posted February 18, 2012 by headhopper and filed under egomania

So I have a personal home page now, under nickoba.com. Even though I've made living entirely from the Internet since 1996, I've never really had a navel-gazing home page. But I've sort of been forced to putting one up now, due to the fact that a lot of people are trusting me with...

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Warning When Looping Through Arrays in Perl

Posted November 24, 2011 by headhopper and filed under perl

Well, I've been working with Perl for more than ten years - unlike most humans I haven't moved on to Ruby or even PHP - but I still learn something new now and then. What I learned is that when you are going through an array counting instances of keys, if something comes along to screw with the array, it starts looping...

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Rush Sale for Qirina

Posted August 31, 2011 by headhopper and filed under firesale

I just put qirina.com on Flippa. It was frustrating because yesterday Flippa's payment processing was kaput all day. Unbelievable! For a site of Flippa's...

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Older Posts You Couldn't Care Less About

Qondio 3.0 Released
August 31, 2011 by headhopper and filed under app

Such Low-Calibre Leadership in London and Paris
August 31, 2011 by headhopper and filed under libya

New Initiative Interviews Leading Plastic Surgeons
August 31, 2011 by headhopper and filed under pandaproof

The Windbags Win
August 31, 2011 by headhopper and filed under panda

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