Archive | February, 2008

28 February 2008 ~ 2 Comments

SendAlong got picked up

Today was a very exciting day for SendAlong – it’s release was picked up by several sites (mostly the US and parts of Europe). I was absolutely blown away this morning when I checked the system and saw the number of sign ups – let’s just say it was a bit more than I [...]

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24 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

SendAlong 1.0 is out! More info coming soon…

Just a quick bit of news that makes me very, very happy to be able to announce:
I’ve officially released SendAlong 1.0!
It’s been a labor of love and…labor, but it’s been worth it.
I’ve got so many things planned for SendAlong – it’s exciting that I’ve finally got 1.0 out the door so that I can refocus [...]

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23 February 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Web Site Marketing Effectiveness Report, Take 4

Web Site Marketing Effectiveness Report, Take 4

Click on the thumbnail to the left to check out the marketing effectiveness of SendAlong vs. some of its competitors.
Compared to last month, I’ve jumped up in score once again (from 48 to 60 overall). Whoot! Slow and steady wins the race:).
I think a couple of the things I’ve done recently [...]

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10 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Continuous Integration – is Continuous Production Reasonable?

Andy Glover has a great post about not only continuous integration (the act of having your code base automatically built and tested whenever you commit any changes to it), but continuous production – having your code able to be deployed to production basically at the drop of a hat without manual intervention at any time.
He [...]

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08 February 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Doctor, my picture frame has a virus

Who would have thought that a picture frame could ever be infected with a virus?
We got a very nice frame as a gift this Christmas, and it turns out it’s not feeling so well.
Go figure. Does this mean I need to by McAfee Virus Scan Photoframe Edition?

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08 February 2008 ~ 4 Comments

jQuery – THE JavaScript library to use?

Is it me, or does it seem like jQuery has been picking up a lot of steam over the past 6 months or so?
It used to be that when I thought Javascript/AJAX library, I thought Prototype. Anymore, however, I think jQuery.

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04 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Running Jetty from Inside Ant…or Jetty + Ant = Crazy Delicious

Want to speed up your Java web development? Read on…

Jetty is one of the best Java Servlet containers out there. I still don’t use it for production deployment (Tomcat has better monitoring capabilities I think), but it’s all I use for development. I’ve also been using Maven 2 a lot lately (although [...]

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