Ade in Business

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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Wow. In the first 24 hours of going live, the Ponyfish site has seen more unique visitors than the FormSpring in the months of March and April combined. New feeds are getting created by the minute, and a good percentage of those users are registering for accounts as well. I even had [...]

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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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I read about new web application launches frequently, and as you can guess it’s always interesting to me to evaluate what others are building. However, it seems like more and more sites are launching under “private beta” status where you give them your contact information and may or may not receive an access key [...]

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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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