Ade in Business

The enterprising journey of a web developer

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Playing with AdSense

June 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

As you might have noticed, I decided to jump on the AdSense bandwagon and add advertising to my blog. This isn’t because I think I’ll make anything more than $0.01 a year from it, but because I wanted to experiment and learn more about using AdSense in a live environment.
I had signed up a [...]

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Obsolete

May 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

One of the things that worries me is that one of the big guns like Microsoft, Google or Yahoo will announce a product that competes head-to-head with one of my mine, or makes a move that otherwise makes mine obsolete in some way. It’s nothing that I lose sleep over, but something that crosses [...]

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LLC on the cheap

May 8th, 2006 · 3 Comments

My LLC papers for Recursive Function finally came in the mail last week. Thank you, Secretary of State Todd Rokita.
I applied through LegalZoom, and found the process pretty quick and painless. And at $206.10, it was much cheaper than our Bottled Software filing several years ago. (I always like it when I spot [...]

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Announcing Ponyfish.com

May 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

OK, I know I mentioned a few days ago that I was putting some finishing touches on another web service, and was thinking about releasing it in the next couple weeks. Well, in the principle of releasing early and often, I’m making Ponyfish public today.
Ponyfish comes from an idea that I’d been tossing around [...]

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Loving ApacheBench

March 27th, 2006 · No Comments

One of the best tools for web application developers has got to be ApacheBench (ab), a program that’s bundled in with the stock Apache distribution. If you’re developing web applications and not using it frequently, you need to.
I was working on some code today and thought, “wouldn’t it be great if I made it [...]

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