After 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, startupsI wanted to log all the errors thrown out by Fwd:Vault processes to ensure that any bugs I don’t catch myself bubble to the top very quickly. To get started, I replaced PHP’s default error handling with a custom error handler function, which simply logs the error in a MySQL table before passing it along [...]
Read More fwdvault, php, software developmentI was recently discussing Fwd:Vault with a typical end user, specifically how our service is completely oriented towards people who simply cannot or will not bother with anything technical. She whole-heartedly agreed, and expressed her mindset as follows: Just make it work. Don’t frustrate me. Don’t break on me. I think those three sentences are [...]
Read More fwdvault, usabilitySince announcing my work on Fwd:Vault, a few friends have come forward expressing interest in being angel investors. From what I’ve read, most entrepreneurs have to seek such people out, so I’ll take it as a compliment that these friends either (a) really like me, or (b) really trust my technical and prowess. I’m leaning [...]
Read More crappy coding, fwdvault, software development, usabilityVoting ended a few days ago for StartupNation’s 2009 Elevator Pitch Competition, and Fwd:Vault had a pretty good showing! Here’s a final tally on the top 10… CineCore – 1573 My Sales Finder – 1264 WorkingMomLifeline – 1225 PublicStuff.org – 1172 TBD – Michael Shipe – 879 Spider Climbing – 765 iSyndica USA Incorporated – [...]
Read More blogs, fwdvault, startupsIn case you haven’t looked at my sidebar in the last month or so, my new startup Fwd:Vault is entered in StartupNation’s 2009 Elevator Pitch Competition. Through endless harassment support of friends, family, and professional colleagues, we’ve been able to hold down a spot in the top 10 (6th as of this writing). That’s simply [...]
Read More business support, fwdvault, investing, startupsIf you follow the Fwd:Vault Developer Diary, you saw today that I was neck deep in upgrading the server that runs everything around here. While the server updated, I worked on Fwd:Vault code. The web designer for Fwd:Vault is also nearing completion on the project, and that required some attention. Tonight I was scheduled to [...]
Read More business support, fwdvault, startupsFwd:Vault is participating in StartupNation’s 2009 Elevator Pitch Competition. The idea is to submit a 1-2 minute elevator pitch, and have the world review your pitch and idea, then rate it. The top 5 entries will get the chance to pitch their idea to a group of big-time investors, potentially landing major financial support. You [...]
Read More for fun, fwdvault, startupsRan into another cool hurdle today for my Fwd:Vault development. When I grab the message content to archive it in the system, first thing I do is scrub it out to ensure that (a) it displays properly, and (b) there are no misbehaving characters. I grab both plain text and HTML email formats (if present), [...]
Read More email, fwdvault, php, programming, regular expressions, security, usabilityI’ve been working furiously on the back end logic for Fwd:Vault for the past few weeks, specifically the logic that processes incoming messages/attachments, archiving them in the system, or returning stored data per user request. As I got into the final nitty gritty, I confronted a serious design issue: should the system use one email [...]
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