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So Many Paths
I am in a bit of a funk right now and I mostly blame it on not knowing what I want to do with my life or even what I want out of it.
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Domains For Sale
Here is the list of domains I currently selling, also included a little info about what I was going to do with each. Please make an offer.
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iPhone Template PSD
I just got back from vacation and I took this photo while on the boat. I made it so it is supper easy to replace the screenshot with yours.
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What is Email?
I really haven't thought about it before, but I can tell you that I pretty much hate it. I have about 100 emails from the past week that I have haven't responded to.
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Time is more valuable then money
You can always earn more money, but never more time. Time is always draining from our lives. You can never get time back.
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Thoughts About Hackathons
Last night I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel about Hackathons. I wanted to write a little follow up about some thoughts I was not able to express and clear up a few things that I talked about.
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The WhoWorks.At Logo
This is a little story about how the WhoWorks.At logo came about. John Britton and I knocked it out in no time, just another night in the startup world.
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UX Idea: Elevator Buttons
I have a confession to make. I am that asshole that accidentally pushes the wrong button more often then I would like to admit. Whether it is the up/down buttons or somehow the wrong floor.
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Happy Valentines Day
Here is a short story about my first day on the job in an ambulance as an EMT from back in the day. This is unedited and written shortly after the following event.
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Testing Twitter Ads
I was recently invited by Twitter Ads to promote my account. The offer was to try it without spending a dime with $50 in free advertising. I thought I would share the experience.
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PPI & DPI is Irrelevant
PPI & DPI is irrelevant when designing iPhone and iPad apps. Let me repeat that, PPI & DPI do not matter. No, stop it. It does not matter if it is @1x or @2x, iPhone or iPad, it's just irrelevant metadata.
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CSS for Sarcasm
Today I am suggesting some CSS to help clear this up. This morning I woke up and thought of the solution, why don't we just use Backslant or "Contra Italics". Just add the following to your stylesheet and feel free to use when needed.
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NERDTree
"The NERD tree allows you to explore your filesystem and to open files and directories. It presents the filesystem to you in the form of a tree which you manipulate with the keyboard and/or mouse. It also allows you to perform simple filesystem operations."
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Responsive Design, the ugly
It seems lately that everyone is talking about responsive design and few people are actually trying to implement it. After much research, a few attempts, and some heated, yet passionate, discussions
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I Quit
That’s right, I quit. I know I have said it before and talked about it many times, but I am really doing it this time. I am quitting freelancing.
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Find Your Navigation
An experiment I did to help decide the structure of a site. I took a few 3x5 blank index cards and wrote the title of the page names, categories and subcategories (basically all main structures) on each card. Then we sorted this pile to help make sense of the navigation.
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WordPress different file extensions
For what ever reason I had a difficult time find this solution. It seemed like most of the articles where out of date. Please let me know if you need any help. Just add this to your functions.php in your theme directory.
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StartupBus Countdown
I just wanted to share some insights to days before the bus ride. It will help help me remember all the details. T-6 Days: I start of the day meeting some other Buspreneurs. Kristen Byers, Lu Doan & Josh Schwartzman. We are tasked with creating the 2011 StartupBus website, for the most part there is
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StartupBus 2011
Sound the trumpets, I made it on the StartupBus. I can not tell you how overly excited I am to have this opportunity. So you might be asking yourself "What the hell is the StartupBus?". Well follow me along this little journey and I will tell you from start to finish. We began this story
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Polaroid (PSD)
I recently had to work on a little project that I required some polaroid images. I figured I would release for all to use.
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How old do you feel?
Last night someone asked me how old I was. I responded back with "I am 23….I mean 26". Now granted I just said the first thing that popped in my head, but that had me thinking why I said it. Did I just forget or was there some other meaning. Of course me over thinking
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Embed RSS Feeds into your website
After hours of looking for a simple & reliable way to post Atom, RSS, or Media RSS feeds on a website I have finally found a solution. Today we will be going over Google Feed API and how to set it up on your site. I also want to make a note that it is
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Stick to your guns
About six months ago I started to build a website for a talented musician named Kevin Anderson. I first heard about him when I was listening to Jango and one thing led to another and I was building him a website. Not only do I love his music, he is a kickass person. We still
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Aidan's Monsters
You want to do something good today? With the power of social media I stumbled across the story about 5 year old boy name Aidan diagnosed with Leukemia. Aidan is selling his drawings of monsters to help pay for the medical bills. I just purchased a wonderful piece of art for my office at work.
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Image Replacement
Image replacement always seems to be up to debate. Today I am going to show you how I do it and some of the reasoning behind why.
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Droid 2 attack
Do not ask me to play thumb wars anytime soon. Today I was attacked by my Droid 2. The phone was running a bit slow so I decided to preform a battery pull. And that is when my whole life flashed in front of me. I try to pull down the back panel and it
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Lost at sea with little hope
It was a Wednesday after noon with nothing going on. I get a phone call with desperation on the other end, it was my kid brother. "Hey what are you doing? The jet ski is not working, it won't turn on."
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Godaddy: Increase upload max filesize
Today I will show you how to increase you file upload limit if you have a Godaddy shared hosting plan. Why would you want to do this? To increase the size of your upload of course!
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Black T-Shirt
So the other day I was reading 12 Common Photoshop Mistakes and Malpractice and one of the items was talking about "Assuming K=100 is Black".
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Tom Green Site Redesign
I have been a huge fan of Tom Green for as long as I can remember. I used to watch The Tom Green Show religiously and still enjoy his movies today. A few years ago I discovered that he is still producing
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Monkey Bread
A great dessert for 2. Have fun pulling the bread apart with a fork or get messy with your fingers.
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How do you charge?
I have noticed there is several way to charge clients and a lot of debate about each way. So, I once again called upon the experts in our field.
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E-commerce preferences from the best
"Which E-commerce should I go with?"" is often a hot topic in any post related to E-commerce.
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PHP Extension "mcrypt" must be loaded
PHP Extension "curl" must be loadedI ran into this little problem after watching "Easy E-Commerce With Magento" tut over at NetTuts