Let’s start the weekend on a really high note. A family member forwarded this video over to me the other day: Love what you saw? Then check out the Playing for Change website to see more videos, show support, and/or get involved. Still not feeling up? This should finish off your blues. Happy Friday everyone!
Read More get inspiredLast night I attended the first Entrepreneur Unplugged event sponsored by Philly Startup Leaders. I think it’s a great idea; people from the front lines sharing war stories. Insights and advice abounds. From their description of the event: Entrepreneur Unplugged will extend the spirit of Founder Factory by bringing successful Entrepreneurs “on stage” to share [...]
Read More PSL, startupsI recently discovered an issue with the mailing list signup on the Fwd:Vault placeholder site. [Aside: It was perfect when I set it up, I swear there are gremlins in my code sometimes. If you tried to sign up and were unable to, I apologize, try it one more time.] After fixing the issue, I [...]
Read More crappy coding, usabilityThis is the kind of “usability fail” that drives me nuts, especially from a company of Google’s caliber. When you add a new site to Google Analytics, they present you with the Javascript code block you need during the setup process. But what if you need to look up that code block again? What if [...]
Read More crappy coding, usability, user interfacesWant to know how well your software is doing? Look for the absence of complaints. Compliments are always fantastic to receive, but are not consistently delivered, and hence not representative of your software’s ecosystem. Things working great is status quo; it’s expected. On the other hand, people are negative by nature — Murphy’s Law comes [...]
Read MoreThe Fwd:Vault website has a new placeholder page! With Fwd:Vault claiming victory in the Elevator Pitch Contest, and thus imminent global domination, I thought it was high time we give that dusty old page a major tune-up. The new look represents how the site will look and feel when we launch later this year, and [...]
Read MoreThe winners for StartupNation’s 2009 Elevator Pitch Competition were announced today, and no one was more surprised than I to find out that Fwd:Vault was selected as one of them! That link will take you to a page showing the top 5, along with 10 runner-ups. There were some really great ideas submitted — just [...]
Read MoreI posted a few weeks back describing an issue I was experiencing with logging into Gmail from Firefox. Firefox was corrupting Gmail cookies whenever the browser started, so I had to clear cookies each time I started up in order to use Gmail. Today I found the full solution, and it ain’t pretty. The problem [...]
Read MoreCore PHP does not include a define_once() function to complement functions like require_once() and include_once(), which is pretty silly in my opinion. While I am generally not a fan of using *_once statements due to the performance penalty (and incurred laziness), define_once is the exception. There are ways to look for a loaded/missing file, but [...]
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