A couple brilliant friends of mine have recently launched a service called Tripeedo. Its based off technology they built for Wundrbar.com and basically makes flight search actually a search. Current “flight searches” are less of a search and more of a painful process of filling out extensive forms. You have to click and specify where [...]
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8 Feb
Setup Safari Web Inspector
A few months ago my friends at 280 North told me about Safari’s Web Inspector. Its quite simply Safari’s version of Firebug. Until recently I never had much of a reason to test it out but tonight I did. To enable it simply run the following command in your Terminal. defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras \ [...]
22 Jan
Installing SVN on Ubuntu
Today, for probably the 4th time I created an svn repository. I find a different crappy tutorial every time as its the kind of setup its just not worth remembering. I found this one right away though and it worked great! Saving it for later and as a recomendation to others. Install Subversion With Web [...]
6 Jan
Wildcard Subdomains with WebpageDomainNames.com/Godaddy.com
The domain manager for WebpageDomainNames has a confusing way of doing wildcard subdomains. Googling for this there seemed to be a lot of confusion and I eventually found the answer. Usually you make a CNAME record of * to represent the wildcard subdomain. Instead, with Godaddy make an A record with the name * [...]
6 Jan
SSHFS for Developing on a Remote Server
As I mentioned in my previous post there is often a reason, such as subdomains or configuration issues, that you cannot develop on localhost. In this case you’re going to have to develop on a remote server. This can be horribly inefficient if you’re constantly ftp’ing new code or committing and updating through some revision control system. I’ve [...]
1 Jan
Recap and New Years Resolutions
Happy New Year!! 2008 was a huge year for me. I quit IBM, moved to Palo Alto, went through Y Combinator, launched 2 big apps 8aweek (now temporarily shut down) and SocialBrowse. I lived the whole year in the expensive bay area off of a small investment and a small amount of personal savings all [...]
27 Dec
Proportional Image Resize in JavaScript
Socialbrowse currently shows summaries of shared links that have an ATOM or RSS feed. The feeds come with images of all sizes and we have to change the height and width to fit within the alloted space. CSS has max-width and max-height parameters but they have issues in IE and they don’t keep original proportions [...]
22 Dec
Host Your Own Git Repository
Today I set up a git repository on our dev server. If you have some cash and don’t want to deal with hosting and backing up the repo yourself I recomend you check hosting services such as github. But, if you are like me and have more servers than cache you’ll want to set up [...]
21 Dec
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Another book I finished reading recently is Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence People. This book has a special meaning to me, and it was my 4th time reading it. When I was in 6th grade, my grandpa, a very quiet man that I respect greatly, gave me the book and told me [...]
18 Dec
Man’s Search For Meaning
I just finished reading Viktore E. Frank’s Man’s search for Meaning and highly recommend it. It is by a psychologist who spent two years in concentration camps during WWII. There are two parts: the first is an account and observations of the time he spent in the camps. The second is an introduction to logotherapy, [...]
