Bryce Boe

The Adventures of a UCSB Computer Science Ph.D. Student

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Reviving priceTrackr

4 July, 2008 (01:07) | General | By: Bryce Boe

So I left work a little early today because they weren’t serving dinner tonight and because I had some stuff to take care of. Most importantly I was contacted by this guy Tom, an EE major at University of Illinois, who would like to donate a server and help improve priceTrackr. So I of course [...]

Combining PHP and Python

7 November, 2006 (13:32) | General | By: Bryce Boe

I’ve been writing code in php for three years now, and within the last year discovered the python language. Without going into much detail I find myself utilizing python more so than php. I do have things I dislike about python (mainly its documentation as compared to php’s) but for the most part it [...]

German Autofest 2006

13 September, 2006 (00:59) | General | By: Bryce Boe

I drive a 1985 ½ Porsche 944 (the ½ is very important) which I purchased my junior year in high school. You might be wondering how I could afford a Porsche at such a young age, as I wondered the same thing when I saw the classified for it. The catch is these cars [...]

A Day With Digg: priceTrackr was Dugg

7 September, 2006 (10:46) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Yesterday was quite an exciting day as priceTrackr made its presence known with the help of my favorite news site Digg. Excitement, anger, and frustration carried me through the day. The following is a reenactment of the events leading to, and of yesterday.
9/5/2006 – 10:25AM
I suggested to Adam that I should self promote [...]

Official priceTrackr Launch

27 August, 2006 (23:42) | General | By: Bryce Boe

Edit 2009-11-10: priceTrackr is back! Follow-up post to come soon.
Edit 2009-09-16: I still notice quite a bit of traffic from digg to here which I appreciate. Before you go on your please note that priceTrackr has been down for quite some time as I haven’t been motivated to shell out a few extra bucks a [...]