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Google Gets Into VC Business

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Recently all the major news papers have covered the same story. Google is getting into the VC space. Its nice to know the company that saved the web is now saving the VC market. Although I expected some new cool social investment platform instead of a simple. "We’ve got $100 Million to [...]

Outsourcing Revisited And No One Is Safe

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

The recent article Outsourcing Killed By Django And Ruby On Rails has caused as much proper debate as it has blind controversy. The feedback provided by readers here as well as other sites like Y Combinator and Reddit have brought up some good points. If I had to write the article again here [...]

Outsourcing Killed By Django And Ruby On Rails

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

The absolute pinnacle of outsourcing madness peaked with the publication of “The 4 Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss. The book was a Bible for starting your own sweat shop. Everyone from one man startups long forgotten to mega corporations like Ebay were looking to India, China, and eastern Europe to cut development costs. [...]

Link Exchange For Tough Times

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Advertising on Google is getting expensive, very expensive. This year advertising costs for Adwords rose between 40% and 60% for some advertisers. Companies like eBags.com and Babyage.com have seen the cost of advertising online soar to 45% of the cost of the product they are trying to sell. Margins are diminishing and [...]

New Django Site For Porsche Enthusiasts

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Recently I’ve completed a revamp of Patrick Motorsports on the Django platform. The owner, James, has been working with Porsches for more than 15 years. He races Porsches, builds Porsches, and sells parts for Porsches. Overall its a cool shop, every time I’m over I see a dozen cars in various states [...]

New Django Site: Samz Market and Gourmet Foods

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

For the past 2 years I’ve been looking for a place like Samz Market and Gourmet Foods to open up within 10 miles of my house. I have a 4 mile commercial dead zone, with only a Quick Trip gas station near. At the edge of this dead zone are 2 shopping malls [...]

Porting Aware To Django

Monday, August 25th, 2008

A few years back I started a PC profiling service known as Aware Labs. It was originally written in C++ with a Windows MFC downloadable client. Six months ago I re-wrote the static website front end in Django so I could get a better handle on news and static updates. Today I’m [...]

Amazon EC2 Basics For The Curious

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

For those of you wondering what it would be like to host and maintain a Django application (or any application) on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) here is a basic list of daily operations. These steps assume you’ve set up your Amazon account. This is the basic set of commands you can use [...]

Contact

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

I’ve recently ventured into the entrepreneur’s realm. As usual tons of projects, lots of ideas, and still plenty of coding. Thank you Django for helping me move past software development and find time to pursue things like actually promoting my products. I spend my professional time growing as an entrepreneur here in [...]

Digg For Django Is Here

Friday, March 28th, 2008

For a long time the Django community has relied on sites like Digg, DZone, and my favorite Django Projects Community. The former are too generic for the rapidly growing yet dedicated Django community, while the latter lacked sufficient organization. Don’t get me wrong its great to get on Digg and the Django Project [...]

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