After anxiously awaiting a response from David Walker, the TulsaTechFest conference Director about an open speaking spot, I just about fell out of my chair today when I finally got the email with a confirmation that I was going to be presenting. I am very excited about this amazing opportunity, and have already begun putting [...]
Building a Better Woot! Checker: Comparison is Key
The famous “one item per day” e-commerce store Woot! periodically holds a “woot-off”, where multiple different items are sold in quick succession, each item appearing as soon as the previous one sells out completely. The quick succession of potentially interesting items selling for steep discounts has created a proliferation of scripts and programs called “Woot [...]
Fixing IE7 Z-Index Issues with jQuery
For some reason, Internet Explorer 7 does some pretty funky things, and has several known bugs with it’s rendering engine that drive web developers like me crazy. While most of the known bugs occur in relatively obscure situations and go largely unnoticed, there are a few that really stick out and cause web developers to [...]
What’s In a Name – Does Your Domain Name Really Matter?
Last week while listing to the TechCrunch50 conference live broadcast, I noticed an interesting trend that seemed to concern VC’s on the judging panel that were asking questions and evaluating the presentations of the particpating startups. Several times during the feedback and commentary the panel would give to the startups that just presented, concern about [...]
New Blog, Design – Finally Getting Started
After a long time sitting on the sitelines of the whole blogging/social media trend, I finally decided to jump in headfirst with a new Twitter account and this blog. I’ve been watching the new trends carefully and building websites and writing code for them, but up until now, hadn’t actually jumped on the bandwagon to [...]
