The guys from big G never cease to amaze me. I was deleting an old coupon message from Pro Flowers today and accidentally hit the “Report Spam” button instead of “Delete”, and was greeting with this: I thought unsubscribing from legitimate mailing lists was already pretty easy, but Google decided that one step was still [...]
Read More customer service, usability, user interfacesAfter eight months of development, Fwd:Vault — the secure data backup service that operates entirely through email — is ready and waiting for you. This is a free beta release, so anyone can sign up and use the service totally free of charge. Hit the site to get started: http://fwdvault.com If the description “Secure data [...]
Read More email, fwdvault, startupsJust the latest entry in my get inspired series, my wife let me in on this one. It’s apparently made the news and ended up in more than a few facebook posts, so I am (as usual) just late to party. Oh well. Always dance, and always do it to your own beat. Have a [...]
Read More for fun, get inspiredThe following screenshot was taken from the documentation for Google Page Speed (aka the Google version of YSlow), under the section “Parallelize downloads across hostnames”… I don’t know about you, but I love looking at half-delivered web pages. Let’s hope the guy who wrote this isn’t also responsible for the search engine’s built-in calculator.
Read More for funIf I store critical data in an Amazon S3 bucket, do I need to keep a backup copy somewhere else, or duplicate everything to a second bucket? I searched high and low for an answer to the question, and couldn’t find a definitive word. I guess I should have read Amazon’s own design requirements first… [...]
Read MoreA few months ago I published an article describing how to output a Twitter stream on a page using PHP, and later followed up with two more to polish the display. The article content and code examples have since been tweaked based on feedback and my own debugging. If you haven’t already had a look, [...]
Read More lifestream, php, programming, regular expressions, social networking, TwitterAn effective business always remembers that their relationship with a client is a two-way street. If the client isn’t holding up their end of the bargain, the company can and should drop them. This is called firing your customers. The discussion surrounding this notion, both pro and con, is pretty vast, and I recommend you [...]
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