I was sure I would never become a consultant. The stress is high. You sell your time. You don’t get time off. You don’t get sick leave. Just try to get health insurance. Retirement? Ha. In spite of all that I am a consultant and I like it. Late summer 2008 the powers that be…
Author: Justin
How New Carpet and Rattlesnake turned me into a Consultant or What the Hell Happened?
I was sure I would never become a consultant. The stress is high. You sell your time. You don’t get time off. You don’t get sick leave. Just try to get health insurance. Retirement? Ha. In spite of all that I am a consultant and I like it. Late summer 2008 the powers that be…
Social Search, User Discovery
As a follow on to my social profiles post I’m adding more images to help examine the way in which users find each other on a given social network. Billions of dollars have been made solving the search for content problem, but for the most part finding people is still a fairly tedious task. Most…
43 Social Profiles
One challenge any community site faces is how to let users express themselves. It is hard to express the sum total of any individual on a web page, but in the virtual world that interface is the one chance a user has to connect with another human being. The challenge for designers is making the…
Change your WordPress Gallery Settings
I’m a big WordPress fan. They make really great stuff. I was really excited when the gallery feature came out several versions ago. It worked fine until I needed to change the image sizes for a post that I’m working on. It might just be me but finding the right way to change the images…
The Princess and the Pea
I made cashew chicken for dinner tonight. It has peas in it. As is typical of any dinner that doesn’t consist of corn dogs or chicken nuggets, Alyssa complained and didn’t eat anything. The other girls finished the food we gave them and got cup cakes as a reward. Alyssa complained about that too, but…
Show unread emails in gmail
I don’t know why this isn’t just a link in the UI but to show unread emails in your gmail account type this in the search: label:unread in:inbox
River – Amazon Wishlist Gem
One more post on Amazon Wishlist code. As another follow up to my post on Amazon Wishlist RSS, Ruby and Signing/Authenticating your Requests and the site I built to run the code My Amazon Feeds (post here) I’ve created a gem to contain all the code. Get it by running sudo gem install river </pre>…
Heroku
I’ve watched Heroku for a while. I’ve even tried to deploy an app there a few times, but never got into it that much. I needed a cheap (free) place to put My Amazon Feeds.com. It’s just a utility site. It’s not meant to scale or be production worthy. Instead it’s meant to show off…
Social Network Dilution
My wife thinks it’s funny that I never check Facebook anymore. I got her into it and now she checks it daily. I got my account way back when you still had to have a .edu email address to get an account. It was worthless for a while because no one else I knew had…