May 2012
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FastISBN – The Book Search API →
February 2012
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Conferencing
I haven’t been to a conference since FlashPitt 2009, it was a good conference and at the time a good one to attend since I was using Flash fairly often at work. I’m no longer working for that company and no longer use Flash (also FlashPitt seems to have vanished). Today I woke up, saw a couple of tweets about ConvergeSE and was thinking about attending; by the time my business partner...
November 2011
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New Business
I’ve talked about it a bit, but I wanted to talk about the new business I’m starting in depth. I’m starting a web and iOS development company with my brother, our focus is on clean, easy to use applications. I’ve always preferred an easy to use simplistic application over a beautifully designed one where the interface is confusing. My web site is a perfect example of this,...
October 2011
3 posts
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Switching Hosts
Short of one single hiccup with provisioning I’ve loved using Rackspace’s cloud servers, but recently I’ve moved all of my sites over to MediaTemple. I decided to do this as I wanted VPS hosting for my new business and I didn’t want to pay for, nor manage sites on two services. The plus of this is that all of my standard LAMP packages are already installed so I don’t...
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Goodbye Android
After dealing with the hassle of working with various versions of the Android OS and the multitude of devices that all seem to react different to the same code or layouts even when they have the same screen resolution, I’ve decided to no longer develop for that platform. I will still be supporting existing clients Android projects, but will no longer be accepting new ones.
This decision...
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Now on Bootstrap
If you’ve seen my website in the last few months you can clearly see it once again looks different. I’ve decided to drop my custom design that I’ve never been happy with and start fresh using Twitter’s Bootstrap toolkit and their example “Hero” layout. I wanted to stay on Jekyll and I wanted something easy to read, Bootstrap meets those goals and has given me a...
April 2011
3 posts
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Networking Two
Well, I ordered a AirPort Express on Saturday to implement my plan, it arrived today and I proceeded to set it up and move my hard drives and server across the office. There were multiple problems with my original plan and how it gets implemented. The big one being that AirPort Express only supports a printer on the USB port, AirPort Extreme base stations and Time Capsules apparently supported...
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Networking One
I’m sitting in my office at 7:50am on a Saturday morning messing with the server trying to get it setup for remote access from home and I realized just how crappy the area I’m working in is network wise. I have internet through a cable provider which means my setup is a Motorola cable modem and a Linksys WRT54G. The wireless works great and everything in general is fine, however since...
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New Local Server
I love my Rackspace Cloud servers, but I’ve been thinking I need a local server where I can have complete control, there isn’t a monthly charge and their isn’t an additional fee if I want to use RHEL or Windows. I had to ask myself some questions that at times were hard to answer due to the fact that I wanted the server to have a small form factor (traditional micro and mini...