Cross browser FireUnit for JavaScript unit testing

February 4, 2010

I’m been delving more deeply into the world of front-end development recently, and after trying out a few different JavaScript unit testing tools I selected FireUnit.  I installed the Firefox extensions Firebug and FireUnit – you need both for unit testing with FireUnit.
However, sometimes Firebug doesn’t work for me and I want to use Safari [...]

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Super Freakonomics by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner

February 1, 2010

Just wanted to share what I’m reading now. Super Freakonomics is the sequel to Freakonomics. If you like non-fiction at all you’ll probably love both books. Authors Levitt and Dubner shock you with facts and statistics in several important areas which make you conclude oppositely from conventional wisdom. Don’t read it if you don’t like [...]

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A PPC Pro looks at domaining

January 28, 2010

I found a new blog by a PPC marketing specialist, PPC Ian, who went to his first domain conference. I think it is valuable for people in any niche industry to understand how other similar-but-different business professionals see their industry. That’s why I advised domainers to learn more about the affiliate marketers in a recent [...]

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Memory lane: Afternic.com purchase

January 25, 2010

Even though it only lasted two or three months, there were a lot of twists in the story of how my brother and I purchased Afternic.com in 2002.

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Barefoot Attempt 2009

January 19, 2010

Before the recent cold snap I got a chance to cut up on the lake.  I attempted to barefoot after not doing it for a few years. The result was I bobbled back and forth for about a hundred yards and then face planted.  Just thought I’d post one personal item to shed some light [...]

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Lesson Learned on Racial Sensitivity

January 15, 2010

Our hangman app graphics contained a gray stick figure, in a pink dress and a straw hat to make the image more fun, silly, and comical rather than serious. With every missed letter, the stick figure became more silly.  However, several people reported being offended at the depiction of a black man (half said man, [...]

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Blue button images for iPhone apps

January 14, 2010

The iPhone SDK makes it easy to add a bright blue button on the navigation bar.  It is the color that means press this when you’re done doing what you’re doing. However, if you want to add a button with the same meaning somewhere else, its a lot of work.  There is a blue button [...]

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The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman

January 12, 2010

One of the fallacies we have adopted in our society is that some producsts/services are so special or some particular situations are so special that we should abandon free market principles and let government take over.  We’re being suckers when we do this for several reasons.  First, almost never is a product/service really that special.  [...]

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Custom Hangman Available on App Store

January 11, 2010

If you’ve got 99 cents  and an iPhone or iPod Touch you can now purchase Custom Hangman, the best game of Hangman on the app store, in my arrogant and biased opinion.  But seriously, if other versions of this game were boring (including the pencil and paper version) it was because you didn’t play with [...]

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Recent updates, traffic up 121%

January 11, 2010

This blog has been in the “getting established” phase for years.  I had been dabbling at it before, but since I left my last full time job at Hostopia, I’ve gotten more serious about this blog and I’m seeing the results:

Visitors per month are up 121% in the last month.  (Went from double digit to [...]

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