Way to often I’m asked “How do I create a PDF from this or that document?”. When I say often, I mean at least 2 times a damn week – so I have decided to put this issue to bed and write this post. From now on, when I am asked “How can I create [...]
What movie should I watch right now?
Each time I try to find something to watch online, I end up spending all my time searching opposed to watching. Thus I’ve created a project that shows only the top 10 movies to watch with Amazon OnDemand. The widget above picks one of those movies at random.
Exposing the Get-Rich-Quick scammers techniques
For 10 years I have been trying different methods to supplement my day-job’s income using technology. During my journeys, I have stumbled on to so many “get rich quick” scams that take people’s hard earned money and never produce a single result, that I’ve finally decided to take action. The truth is, that a lot [...]
Help Stats Squared win the Global Startup Battle.
Voting is over. StatsSquared places #2 in the Global Startup Battle! Over the last weekend, I had the pleasure of being part of the Indianapolis StartupWeekend. It’s a global event that happens 2 times a year in most major cities. During this event entrepreneurs, developers and marketers come together for a 52 hour sprint to [...]
Aptana Cloud is Dead.
Yesterday I was notified by Aptana that they will be discontinuing their Cloud Hosting service – dubbed AptanaCloud. Fortunately enough, a month ago I migrated away from Aptana to RackSpace Cloud after only 2 years of using AptanaCloud as my exclusive host. Aptana’s notice to it’s customers stated that you only have until Oct 31st [...]
How to Quickly Explode your Business’ Twitter Followers
:::: UPDATE ::: THIS ONLY WORKS WHEN YOU’RE NOT USING THE NEW TWITTER INTERFACE. Get back to the old interface by selecting “Leave preview” from the drop down in the upper right hand corner. ::: END UPDATE ::: Ever wondered how some Twitter users seem to amass a huge amount of amount of followers? Unless [...]
FormStack WordPress Plugin preview.
Update: Formstack has officially released their WordPress plugin – get it here Last week Indianapolis based FormStack, gave me a sneak peak at their upcoming WordPress plugin. If you’re not familiar with FormStack (formerly FormSpring), it’s a hosted service that gives you the ability to quickly build beautiful forms online and collect responses. Their (soon to be [...]
Goodbye Aptana Cloud, hello RackSpace Cloud
Update! Not long after writing this post – Aptana announced they are killing their cloud hosting service. I just finished having a few drinks with the recruiting boys at ProfyleTracker so please forgive any loftiness within this post. A year and a half ago I raved about Aptana Cloud, an easy to use cloud server hosting [...]
Printfu 4.0 – PDF search rises again.
While I was reorganizing my servers this weekend, I decided to move Printfu to my new cloud server setup, as well as give it a new interface and advertising channels. I ultimately decided to dropped the ugly Google Adwords for my more profitable Amazon Product Advertising ads, and rewrote the entire searching algorithm. PrintFu has [...]
FlickrIt! Realtime stream of flickr – a challenge
The results of my latest challenge – a Flickr Streaming app with no javascript libraries (except json2.js)
I'm an artistic technologist. I enjoy interviewing smart people, and I have a love for great design and usability. I am also the some-what-proud author of WordPress Top Plugins.
