I registered the domain for my free online dating service, DiveIntoThePool.com, in October of 2007. I decided that along with making my first real startup that I would invest money in that it would be a good idea to do in a language I didn’t already know (ASP.NET), with a database I wasn’t familiar with… Read More »
My first game, Three or More: Monster Match, was approved for sale on the App Store last night! It’s been a fun time since I started learning Objective-C in August to sending off my game for approval on October 5th. At one point I even considered stopping development and shifting gears into a more familiar… Read More »
UPDATE: It’s been over a year since I considered stopping my study of Objective-C and I can gladly say that I made the right choice in continuing to learn Objective-C and native app development. With Adobe’s recent moves discontinuing Mobile and TV Flash development and moving the Flex SDK to ‘an established open source foundation’… Read More »
With the Windows Phone 7 developer tools being finalized September 16th and the marketplace accepting submissions in October I started, a little late in the game perhaps, to wonder how likely Windows Phone 7 users will be to buy apps. The iPhone and Android users buying apps have been discussed at length by cnet, NYTimes, mashable… Read More »
Sensationalist enough? Maybe, it’s the polar opposite of the post I read today. I finished reading Hey, Guys, It’s Totally Okay If You Don’t Get Rich earlier today and I don’t think the guys and girls that are trying to get rich, make a successful business or make a difference in the world need to… Read More »
I found a fix for a single case of “Flash cannot parse this document” error when opening a file saved from Adobe Flash CS5. Here is how it happened. A designer friend of mine upgraded to CS5 recently and sent me an email in a panic when she got this error “Flash cannot parse this… Read More »
So your working on a new RIA in Flash and you want to use the built in NumericStepper, or any other Flash component for that matter but you aren’t happy with the skin. You’ve already seen Customizing the NumericStepper component by Adobe and you’re ready to move past changing the color of the component and… Read More »
So as one of my sites grew I quickly found out that my zip code database was horribly incomplete with only 33234 records and it even had duplicates for some zip codes. I did some searching and came across a post about a zip code csv file but the post goes to what looks like… Read More »
On a shared hosting environment you often won’t have access to ban IP addresses on the IIS level and my shared host didn’t offer the Firewall module for Plesk so I had to come up with a programmatic way of blocking large blocks of IPs. You can setup in your web.config file something called a… Read More »
A very popular error, so popular and in so many places still unresolved. I spent a while trying to track down what was causing this error on my new hosting environment. I felt it would be a great idea to go ahead and repost my successful solution. I first did a hefty bit of searching… Read More »