Nov 7, 2007
A few weeks ago everyone in the publisher space was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off because everyone selling Text Links suddenly found their PageRank halved or worse. Or at least, their toolbar PageRank. I saw the announcement, and kind of shrugged.
The effects
Here is some hard stats from a site that gets around 200 searches a day from google. This is ...
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Nov 4, 2007
Just a couple of days ago, IconFactory released a new version of Twitterific -- Twitterific 3.0. Since Twitterific first came out, I've been a huge fan of the program. It's what made Twitter useful, especially during the time that the website was taking 30 seconds to 5 minutes to load.
Why I suddenly feel jipped
My first reaction was: finally! I can use Twitterific on Leopard again! YES!
My ...
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Nov 1, 2007
Sorry it's been so long since an update -- no excuses here, other than being insanely busy with work. So let's get on to it: this past month (October) was a really shitty month for me, earnings-wise. I earned less across the board on all of my programs, and my main money maker (DreamHost) totally dried up for me this month with effectively no incoming money.
But ...
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Sep 10, 2007
One of my biggest flaws as a designer/developer is the rate at which I tend to abandon projects. I find that I'll crank through a thousand lines of code in a caffeine-fueled weekend and make something from scratch to launch in under forty-eight hours. But then as time passes, I neglect the project and it dies a slow, painful death. One tip to combat this I've ...
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Sep 9, 2007
Sometimes I sit at home and wish I could do whatever I wanted for a living. Not just working for myself -- that's easy enough in today's booming economy. I mean sometimes I just want to be able to sit at home all day and fool around with new technologies. Some days I just want to sit down and really learn Flex. Or maybe create ...
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