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Career

Lozzal Finally Released in Canada

October 15, 2010

(As evidence of the fact that I don’t post — or visit — here much, I didn’t realize that this draft never got published. Oops. Here it is a few weeks late.) Introducing Lozzal.com, the product of over a year’s hard work developing a service for a new online local business niche. Go explore some [...]

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How to Meet New Friends: Traffic Generation Basics

October 9, 2009

NOTE: This was originally published in December 2006. Some of the tips here may be seriously out of date. Feel free to comment if you think that’s the case. I’m republishing it here as I aggregate my online writing into one place. Are you popular on the web? Can people find your site with little [...]

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Rails edition of Google Maps Book

February 26, 2007

To be honest I’ve never written a line of Rails in my life. However, Apress in their wisdom has decided to contract Andrew Lewis to port our book over from PHP to Rails, and the result is finally on the shelves. I’m thrilled as I still get a royalty on this edition (once it earns [...]

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10 Rules to Code By

January 22, 2007

Over the last few years the We-Create development team has built up quite a few unwritten rules that have helped us create some excellent code. You will probably recognize a few, but I doubt anyone knows them all. Therefore it’s time to write them down, understand their reasoning and live by all of them all [...]

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Slashdot Review of my book

August 28, 2006

Hot on the heels of my geek out about my first book, there is a glowing Slashdot.org review: There is much to like about this book. The explanations are straightforward, the code is readable, the examples are relevant, and the writing style is approachable. The illustrations, all of which are in black and white, are [...]

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My Google Maps API book is out!

August 14, 2006

Ok. Please forgive the total and utter self-pimpery as I geek out about this. My FIRST BOOK IS OUT! Jeff, Mike and I have been writing this for nearly 8 months now. It’s been a long slog but an excellent learning experience. I’m thrilled to be able to add this to my resume and we [...]

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