Being a web developer can sometimes be a curse. On a weekly basis I receive an email or a phone call asking me if I would work on someone’s project for free. Sometimes its a friend, and sometimes a relative. Often times its from a complete stranger trying to convince me that their project is [[...]
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January 13th, 2011 - 11:46 AM § in Web
Chrome to drop H.264
WebM is a video codec developed by On2 then acquired by Google and made opensource. It has been gaining support due to the questionable licensing agreement of H.264. Although H.264 decoding will remain free as long as it is distributed freely, browser makers would have to pay some licensing fee. Goo[...]
Sparkfun down = not fun
Minutes before the sparkfun.com giveaway the servers went down :( Sparkfun is a site where you can purchase all sorts of fun electronic projects. They were one of the first to carry the Arduino. Today they will give away $250,000 worth of credits to shop on their site. I think the newbies get $40, b[...]
January 12th, 2011 - 11:47 PM § in Web
MetroPCS violates Net Neutrality
I received an email from SaveTheInternet.com about signing a petition to get the FCC to investigate MetroPCS for violating Net Neutrality. According to the email, MetroPCS is charging customer extra to access “advanced HTML”. MetroPCS is the fifth largest mobile provider in the country a[...]
Crafty Outlets on the Web
Sure, everyone knows about Etsy. Early comparisons to Ebay or Craigslist have been eclipsed by Etsy’s community, which formed as a result of so many artists, crafters, and businesspeople finding a cool way to sell and buy goods online. Now what are the other players in this field? I was curiou[...]
January 11th, 2011 - 12:57 AM § in Web
Dig this Gig
My friend Laura Dodd wrote a book called Dig This Gig. It will be out in March and in the book she interviews many people about their job experience. This is no ordinary career book. It is full of real honest advice from people who lived those jobs. How many times have you started a [...][...]
November 17th, 2010 - 3:56 PM § in Web
What’s that google project?
I remember a few weeks back I was reading about a new google product that magically added predictive type ahead to any form field. I’m not exactly sure how it does this magic but I wanted to try it out on a personal project. I had no memory what it was called so began my [...][...]
November 12th, 2010 - 5:40 PM § in Web
Google refine
A couple of months ago I had import some data from an Excel spreadsheet into a system I built for a client. The table contained 60,000 rows of information on colleges and universities. That posed two separate problems: 1) How to best export from Excel into a usable format 2) What to do with the [...[...]
November 9th, 2010 - 1:25 AM § in Web
New DefaultRoute Website
We launched the new DefaultRoute website today! We’ve spent the last three weeks rebuilding and rebranding the site. We felt this was necessary because the old site didn’t reflect our personality. We’re a small company that is comprised of some smart individuals who are not only go[...]