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Golf Site + Moving Site + Freezing weather = Move to Phoenix
The Nance’s sage advice this morning was that we should give Arizona moving companies the sites for free, so that they would move us to Phoenix (the home of the Nance). As the 20 degree air seeps through my 1910 … Continue reading
Mom jeans and Quora.com
I take two months off to hang out with the kids and to enjoy the holiday craziness and before I know it I am stuck in mom jeans and have no clue what is going on in the internet world. … Continue reading
The Twilio Fund and my Accent Training Demo
I’ve been playing around with an idea around an accent training website for the last month or so, and 500 Startups‘ Twilio fund deadline finally got me off my lazy @ss. I finally finished everything for a working demo, … Continue reading
How to Gracefully Use the HTML5 Audio Tag with a Flash Fallback
HTML rocks. It rocks harder than Poison did in the 80′s. That’s some hard rocking. However, browser support is a bit iffy for certain tags. Take the audio tag for example. Not only does Internet Explorer not support … Continue reading
Confessions of a Usability Test Addict
I am officially hijacking the blog to make a confession. I have a new addiction. It does not rank quite as high as my addiction to celebrity blogs or reality tv, but it is a close third. My new addiction … Continue reading
A copy of AuthenticatedSystem has been removed from the module tree but is still active!
What a freakin’ error that is huh? I kept getting it while trying to work on my 3-year old usability testing service. Turns out it’s a conflict with Comatose and rails authentication. Here’s the fix: http://groups.google.com/group/comatose-plugin/browse_thread/thread/284a4a6698a6d9/f698dc284eb1451c?lnk=gst&q=A+copy+of+AuthenticatedSystem+has+been+removed+from+the+module+tree+but+is+still+active!#f698dc284eb1451c Add ‘unloadable’ to … Continue reading
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
