I had the pleasure of seeing Josh Holmes keynote CodeStock Saturday morning.  His presentation, “The Lost Art of Simplicity,” was very well done.  Very broad topic, but very applicable to likely everyone in the room.  Certainly I took away many good points.  In some ways, it’s a lot of points that we *know* at an [...]

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I’ve wanted a way to record cell phone conversations for *years*.  With the proliferation of smart phones, you’d think we’d have this by now, but it’s still not a feature widely available (and, reportedly, blocked by some device manufacturers).  So, to scratch my own initial itch, I’ve put together a service to allow me to [...]

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This was a very brief demonstration of a sample Twilio app.  They have some other interesting demos - I suggest you take a look if you’re interested in learning more.  Apologies for the slight hiss/buzz on the noise.  This was a last minute recording decision, and I didn’t play with sound levels or anything like [...]

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I’ve recently soft-launched a new document management service for insurance brokers.  The service allows brokers to set up document distribution sites for each of their clients, with a private log in for each client.  It currently includes basic download stats for documents for each client.
This was a service initially set up for one local client, [...]

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Just woke up this morning to news that Oracle is buying Sun.  After cursing myself for not having bought some JAVA last week when it was in the 6 range (pre-market now at 9.10), I started thinking about what this might mean for MySQL.
About a year ago, Sun purchased MySQL.  Although a lot of hooha [...]

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Finally, after much work, we’ve got the first issue of JavaScript magazine (affectionately known as JSMag) out.  Extra special thanks to Rebecca Murphey for her helping hand in an hour of need.  You can read about all the authors or take a look at the first issue or even grab yourself a sample PDF file.  [...]

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Argh!  PHP is *NOT* “object oriented!
Goodness.  I like PHP.  I use it a lot.  I’ve been using it since early 1996.  I’m Zend Certified, have done billion dollar ecommerce projects in PHP, and like to think I know a little bit about PHP.
It is *NOT* “object oriented”.  I wish people would quit saying it.  Perhaps [...]

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Here we go! 
We’re committed to getting Javascript Magazine out the door on March 2.
A few short notes:

The magazine will be PDF only to start with - print version may come later, depending on demand levels
The magazine is tentatively priced at $4.99 per month
We have some great content for the first issue(!)
We’re [...]

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I’ve recently found myself in advisory capacities for a few projects that are in planning or development stages (none are launched yet).  My background is *not* marketing, specifically, although I’ve been involved in a number of web projects’ launches or relaunches over the last 13 years. Having said that, I’ve found myself giving similar advice [...]

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Testing out the demand for a community site focusing on Javascript developers. When I was investigating the Javascript Magazine idea (still in the works - got some great contributors potentially lined up!) I realized that Javascript is everywhere, yet nowhere. There are few, if any, Javascript user groups or similar resources out there. [...]

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