Author Archives: Doug
Turkey time with Mechanical Turk, RTurk, and Turkee
A few years ago I launched a website usability testing service called EasyUsability. I haven’t spent a great deal of time on it in the last year or so (day job is keeping me quite busy), but it showed some … Continue reading
Automatically backup your heroku app
Found a great post on how to regularly backup your heroku app, check it out here: http://ultra.bohe.me/post/283128954/back-up-your-heroku-app-with-a-cron-job
Looking for a good Domain Registration API? Try Namecheap.com
I am working on a project that needs to use a domain registration API, and was having trouble finding one. After looking at enom, godaddy, etc., I finally stumbled across Namecheap‘s API, and am happy to report it’s really … Continue reading
Three quick and useful tools
Ever find yourself wanting to check to see if a domain is available? How about having a big blob of xml or json you need to make pretty? Here are three tools I use: To check domain availability – www.InstantDomainSeach.com. … Continue reading
SEO, Heroku, Ruby on Rails and removing those darn trailing slashes
One of the rules of the thumb for SEO is to make sure you don’t have any duplicate content. When you talk to SEO experts, they’ll say: DO NOT HAVE ANY DUPLICATE CONTENT! Phew, sorry for the yelling. It turns … Continue reading
Awesome Video API
We just released a cool new video feature for www.HomeFinder.com (my day job), that allows real estate agents, brokers, and builders to auto-create property videos with the click of a button. Creating videos for their properties makes their listing more … Continue reading
Cool little golf idea – swing thought club stickers
A college friend of mine just launched an interesting golf product, basically they are swing thought stickers you put on your golf clubs. Check out his site at http://www.ptrlabels.com/. As a golfer, and a family member of … Continue reading
Accept Incoming Emails into a Heroku App Using SendGrid
I love me some Heroku. If you’ve never heard of Heroku, it’s an awesome Ruby on Rails hosting company. It makes deploying and hosting rails apps an absolute breeze. Anyway, I wanted my newest creation, www.SaleTrap.com, to read incoming emails and respond … Continue reading
First Post
Welcome to www.NancesKitchen.com! What is Nance’s Kitchen? It’s an incubator-type company that launches delicious little businesses. For more info about us, check out our About Us page.
