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Earth Class Mail Review
I ran Earth Class Mail as CEO for a couple years and loved my time there. I am still a customer for our MovingCompanyReviews.com business and finally got around to writing a review for it, including a bunch of screenshots, … Continue reading
Of Course I Have Another Side Project
What fun is life without a few side projects? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a super-easy way to run SQL reports in Slack, SQLBot.co. What’s you say? You’d rather use sp_send_dbmail instead because you love MS SQL Server more … Continue reading
Rails 5 – how to create a child before a parent
I’ve been hacking away on a personal budgeting app on my train rides and ran into a squirrely problem in rails 5. My budgeting app uses the spectacular Quovo API (https://api.quovo.com/docs/v3/) to pull transactions from my Chase accounts. Quovo rocks, it’s … Continue reading
Build a ShareASale Website for $0.10 per month
One of my favorite co-workers in the last few years is my good friend Steven Maguire. He’s one part hilarious, one part brilliant, and one part pragmatic. One of my best coding memories from the last few years was … Continue reading
Back in business helping Moving Companies
It’s been waaaaaaaaay to long since I’ve posted. A lot’s happened since then. Let me recap: I took over as CEO of HomeFinder.com We shut down MoverWebsites.com At HomeFinder, we launched an internal startup called MovingCompanyReviews.com I left … Continue reading
Bang that Gong Again
Time to bang the gong again, we’ve got a new MoverWebsites.com customer live! If you need Huntsville Al Movers or Fayetteville TN Movers, then head on over to GeneralMovingServices.com. General Moving Services serves the Huntsville Alabama and … Continue reading
Read wikipedia content into your Ruby on Rails app
I am playing around with a new site that helps people find horses for sale, aptly named http://www.FindHorsesForSale.net. I wanted to provide searchers some background on the particular horse breed they were looking at, so I decided to provide the … Continue reading
How to import a lot of records into a Ruby on Rails application quickly
I stumbled across this today after hacking around for hours trying to figure out import hundreds of thousands of records into a sqlite database in minutes – https://github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import. Super simple, and pure awesome. Works for sqlite, postgres, and … Continue reading
The Kayak/Orbitz/Expedia for buying Moving Boxes online
Been hacking away the last couple weeks building an online price comparison search for moving box kits. Check it out at http://www.MovingBoxSearch.com, the design has a ways to go, and we still have to add a bunch of providers, … Continue reading
LAUNCH! AccentTraining.net – American Accent Rating and Training
What do you get when you mix Twilio‘s awesome telephony API, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk workforce on demand, and Recurly‘s dead simple subscription billing API? A killer American accent training service – AccentTraining.net! Here’s how it works: A person, let’s call him … Continue reading