Author Archives: admin

For years, I’ve used SWF Address to change and listen to changes in the urls hash (#foobar). Problem is hash’s aren’t able to be indexed and they don’t get picked up by Facebook’s linter.  I’ve used SWF Address a bunch … Continue reading →

Websites are purely marketing tools for many businesses.  One industry that I feel is behind the times is real estate online.  Property websites typically are terrible.  They aren’t user friendly and the focus is on all the wrong things.  Don’t … Continue reading →

No, this isn’t real.  I’m writing this mostly to look back in 5-10 years hoping I’m right.  The other part of me just loves innovative software. I don’t mean Google Cars, that is something different, however I’ll explain why maybe … Continue reading →

Vimium is a browser extension for Chrome.  It takes about 40 Vim commands and makes the available to use in Chrome.  Great for speeding up browsing around. Install it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb To see a list of available commands: http://vimium.github.com/

I carry a wallet, a set of 4 keys, and an Android phone.  I believe we can eliminate 2 out of 3 of those things by 2018.  We will only need to carry around a smart phone with NFC.  Simply … Continue reading →

Amazon, long thought of as purely a book seller has been expanding rapidly into the cloud computing space.  Amazon hosts about two dozen services including EC2, which is their on-demand server offering what in my opinion blows away anything I’ve … Continue reading →

My love/hate with the Facebook platform continues.  Yesterday, Facebook shut off the old way of authenticating apps, they changed the parameters and now force OAuth 2.0 on you as an app developer. After getting over my rage that our live … Continue reading →

1.) Start here: http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercise/0.  It’s the basics.  See if it interests you.  It’s a process that’ll take a while, so it’s key to see if it interests you right away. 2.) Download Notepad++ if you are on Windows:  http://notepad-plus-plus.org/.  This is … Continue reading →

Don’t build in-house tools that aren’t core to your business. Focus on your core. It’s easy to want to build everything yourself. It’s hard to train your mind to build your startup in a modular, lean way. Leverage the hard … Continue reading →

Takes about 2.5 hours up, sharp incline, great workout.  Highly recommend.