As a quick followup to my previous post (http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/six-week-test-followup-custom-business-cards/) I wanted to drop a quick update here.  Six weeks isn’t too long if it’s your only activity.  Trying to fit in a six week project in the midst of other projects and deadlines is hard, but you already knew that!.  I’m 4.5 weeks in, and [...]

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I’ve been working with a couple local people on developing a short term plan for them to get in to or move around in the web development job space, and I was wondering if there’s a need for something perhaps sightly more formal in the Raleigh area.  Here’s my initial sketch…
Weekly classes (probably Saturday morning) [...]

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I’m planning to move to using Opera as my main webmail client.  I do a lot in gmail, and to a lesser extent in yahoo mail and other webmail clients.  Firefox, as nice as it is, tends to hang quite a lot (not just with gmail – basically, all the time – 3.5 has not [...]

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I’m putting out a call for fulltime web freelancers to possible be interviewed for an upcoming book project.  PHP, Java, .Net, Front End Engineers, JavaScript, Graphic Designers – if you do web development or design for a living as an independent, we’d like to talk to you.  Visit http://webdevpub.com/interview to fill out a quick background [...]

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I’ve been speaking with a number of local entrepreneurs over the past few weeks, and they all have a few things in common.  All are sharp, smart, have good taste (hey, they’re talking to me, right?), have some killer ideas, and seem to be stuck.  Taking definitive action on the ideas seems to be the [...]

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My brother wrote a Magento module recently – the Facebook Connect Module.  It’s pretty straightforward, and allows you to make it easier for shoppers to enter in their information in to your Magento store.  When checking out, they can connect their Facebook info, using the Facebook Connect process, and their information will be imported in [...]

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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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