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Facebook Ads Are Effective, Just Not Relevant, Yet
… and that’s partly the fault of the advertiser, and partly the fault of Facebook. A friend of mine was crapping all over Nasdaq:FB — not because he’s rolls with popular opinion, but because he decided...
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Jefferson vs Hamilton + 200 years: AWS vs Heroku
This post might be written out of frustration, but I wanted to put this out before the heat of the moment fades away. Amazon had a power outage in its Virgina data center last night due to a storm, and...
View ArticleWinning Is Better When Everyone Else Is Winning Too (Yelp vs Heroku)
I was 11 or 12 when I got my first taste of Monopoly at summer camp. I loved that game — and I think it was my first taste of business. A game that, like life in a lot of ways, was based partly on...
View ArticleGENI: Experiment with the Internet of the Future
I was born into the age of the internet, and I took it for granted. I looked at the potential of the internet in terms of, “What can I build on top of it?” The dirty details of what held this big...
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GENI: Build the New Internet (A Video)
Last week I mentioned that I was writing the documentation for a project named GENI, which a large NSF-sponsored with quite a few people and organizations involved — but the basic goal is to create...
View ArticleGENI: A Gigabit Playground for Developers
A couple weeks ago I did a short screencast demonstrating GENI, a platform for experimenting with programmable gigabit networks. With all the press surrounding Google Fiber in Kansas City, it’s amazing...
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Last Developer Standing at Right Media NYC
Note: This post is primarily intended for former Right Media/Yahoo engineering employees. I’m only saying that now because if you don’t fall into that group, you probably won’t care a whole lot about...
View ArticleIs ‘Daily Deal’ Brokering An Unsustainable Business Model?
I’ve been pretty involved in hyperlocal news sites as of late, and I’ve had a really good taste of the daily deals market. And you know what? I don’t like it. Analyzing different business models has...
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The Best Recruiters Ever
The best recruiters I’ve ever met are the ones that make me forget that I’m talking to a recruiter, usually very quickly. It’s easy to be a lofty software developer who has jobs pitched to him every...
View ArticleRule Your Network with OpenFlow on GENI
In my last GENI post I ended by talking about “programmable networks.” Just think about it. As a web developer, you leverage APIs for all kinds of services and hardware — Facebook, Twitter, Square,...
View ArticleMake Your WordPress 404 Help Find Missing Children
Note: You can skip the whole backstory and go get the plugin here (or install it from within WordPress). So. I was scrolling through Twitter yesterday, and saw there was a bit of buzz about a pretty...
View ArticleThe Future of Web Interface Building
I’ve talked an awful lot about the future on my blog lately. The future internet, the future of social networking, online advertising, etc. But one thing I’m really interested in is how the...
View ArticleThe Purple Curtain: Or, Why You Need to Stop Hanging Out With Heroku and Friends
A little while back I wrote a post that didn’t have very nice things to say about Heroku. I was pretty miffed at the fact that Heroku took such a big hit when there was an AWS outage in the summer of...
View ArticleBuilding a Successful Business is Not ‘Winning the Lottery’
If you’ve ever done something risky like leaving your job to start a company, there was probably someone who tried to talk you out of it. You especially get this if you come from a blue-collar...
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5 Hints That Buying Bitcoins Is A Crazy Idea
Bitcoin The price of Bitcoin is especially volatile today, but it’s like any old day on Mt Gox. If you’re taking solace in the fact that the Bitcoin “bubble” has ostensibly burst (because you didn’t...
View ArticleRemember That Thing I Said About Web Interfaces?
I’m not so sure anymore. One thing I am sure of: Angular.js is the only framework (that I know of) really reconciling for the fact the HTML and Javascript are pretty awful for what we use them for. 1....
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Satisfaction No Longer Guaranteed
Almost 10 years ago at Acme in Lincroft (NJ), I was asked to take down this sign and throw it in the dumpster. The policy was no longer in effect. Corporate guns had apparently decided that customer...
View Article7 Reasons Every Developer Should Freelance Full Time
… at some point in their career. There is no better business training than actually running a real business. Sure, you could go get an MBA, run your parent’s company, take Peter Thiel’s course at...
View ArticleHow to Work Around WPEngine’s “Too many failed login attempts”
A friend of mine recently ran into trouble while logging in to their WordPress-driven news website, hosted on WPEngine. When that friend opened the standard WordPress login page, they would see a...
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