ChangeLog – Jon Chase's blog

Hey there! I have been BUSY since the release of Every Single Shot. Here’s a quick recap just to keep you up to date. I can’t stay long – I’ve got more stuff (marketing, coding, brainstorming, and emailing w/customers) to do!!
First off, I’ve been adding a ton of user requests to ESS. [...]

Holla! I just flipped the switch on Every Single Shot 1.0! If it’s on Twitter it must be a fact:

This has been the culmination of a lot of work! Oh sure, it’s still a little rough around the edges for now, but isn’t that part of the charm? I’ve got big, [...]

Note: this tip can be applied to a lot of Linux distros, but the Ubuntu on EC2 set up is the one I’m using it on. YMMV
So I’m running some pretty stable Ubuntu instances on Amazon’s EC2. They’ve never shut down unexpectedly, and I rarely need to restart them. This means I’m rarely [...]

I’ve just been doing a bit of refactoring on the Every Single Shot sign up page. I started with something that resembled the idea of mad-libs form design:
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I’ve since decided to try amore traditional form layout:
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Do you have a preference? Vote [...]

A common requirement in webapps nowadays is to switch users between a secure and insecure connection (called protocol switching). For example, maybe your user needs to enter a password, credit card number, or some other sensitive information. Of course, you (and the user) would like that information to be sent securely, which means [...]

I’ve got a bunch of shell scripts that I use to help me with development of Every Single Shot. Some of these scripts, like starting up a new server instance or redeploying an application, can take a while (10 to 15 minutes). I’ll typically launch a script and then start working on something [...]

Total earnings as of March 18th, 2010: $0
In my last ChangeLog I said things were moving slowly – much slower than I would have hoped for. That’s finally changed! Development has really picked up over the last couple of weeks and I’ve been churning out new features and fixing bugs like nobody’s business. [...]

I didn’t mean to learn anything about customer support – I was just researching the competition.
More precisely, I was researching some indirect competitors for Every Single Shot and I found myself at SmugMug. Although I was looking to learn about the specific features of SmugMug, what I found myself really impressed with [...]

Total earnings as of February 11th, 2010: $0
This week was a lot slower than I had hoped it would be. I don’t think I made enough progress to be able to launch a beta (remember to sign up) on February 15th (4 days from now!) – but I’m still shooting for it.
Safe, secure photo [...]

Total earnings as of February 1, 2010: $0
I’ve been busy the last few weeks working on many of the things it takes to turn Every Single Shot from an idea into an actual product.
The last few weeks of work have been really, really fun. Not only have I been coding Every Single [...]