Top 3 WordPress Plugins, you can not live without
So your serious about your WordPress site? Well I am too! I’v'e been working heavily with WordPress since 2009 and its a very powerful, flexible platform. But it does not include 3 MAJOR addon’s that you should not be without.
1. BackWpPup
3. WP Minify
A little PHP code that saved me alot of SQL work
For the past few months I have been basically building from scratch the web infrastructure for Arcanatura. I have been primarily developing the U.S. website. But I also had to do a basic install that would be ready for our translators to translate and write topics for spanish speakers. The major problem was though that UTF-8_general_ci does not support special often commonly used Spanish langauge characters. So I had the issue of converting our wordpress install into a spanish ready database.
95% Blog Abandonment, Nah . . . I just got hired, and I’m back!
A recent mashable article reminded me, I’ve forgotten about my blog since May! But I have not joined the 95% of people that abandon their blogs! So now I’m back to bring my blog up to speed. And give a little preview to some of my posts to come.
June 15th, I started my dream job, I’m not making six figures, but I am doing exactly what I wanted to do: working for a seed funded high tech startup. I was hired into Arcanatura LLC an international company that has been creating and developing all natural clinically proven products for the animal health market. I’m joining a company that been in the “game” for over 3 years and is now ready to push into the U.S. market. We are pursuing a e-commerce only sales model, which is where I come in as the first hire(Web Marketing Manager) to begin a rapid development of the website, eCommerce, and social media platforms!
Facebook Event List PHP widget
I searched the internet high and low looking for a simple facebook events widget that allows you to pull events from my facebook fanpage events directly to a webpage (via php). Luckly Steve Rolfe a buddy of mine helped by whipping up this code, which I modified a little bit. This php code is embeddable into any site joomla, wordpress, etc, and takes events and lists them in a standard row.
What it looks like:
Why the iPhone 4GS/5 will most likely hit ATT – Verizon this summer
Numerous rumors have been floating around about the iPhone 4GS / iPhone 5 for months, One of which being that it is delayed until this fall October 2011(Flashback 2007 iPhone Delay Rumor). Now Apple has created this 4 year ritual/legacy of releasing iPhones in the summer, why would this year be any different? Sure it may be coming to T-Mobile and Sprint this year, But . . .
Reason #1 Why ATT/Verizon will get it this summer
Whats been happening?
The past 2 months since I last posted have flown by. I have neglected to post many finished articles lately (many drafts sitting and waiting), but here is a quick update on whats cookin!
Deal.iz.io is doing well, not great, but doing well and over the next few months were going to refocus the iOS app toward a webapp, which should be exciting. Unforunatly lately deal.iz.io has been getting neglected as well as this blog due to the halestorm of projects/different things going on for both myself and Steve Rolfe (the co-founder of deal.iz.io/app.iz.io).
In recent news I’m still doing Market Research work for OdonnellCo; if anyone needs a Full Service marketing firm thats the place to go. Dan, Eileen, and the whole staff are just great people who do outstanding work. Speaking of marketing, I just got picked up by Shizzlr to jump in and take on a part time marketing role. Shizzlr is also run by some awesome people and good friends of mine, co-founders Nick Jaensch and Keith Bessette. Over the past few years they have been building an excellent startup/app and have gotten several serious investors to back the company, and I’m glad to be a part of it. Shizzlr is a unique social event/ social planning application, that you all will be hearing much more of!
Thats about all for now, but stay tuned for some cool stuff!
Small Pixels, Big Price – App Icons!
Yeah so its probably not good style or display of writing skill starting an article title with “OMG”, but yeah app icon designers can be wicked expensive! But lets start with why we even considered the quest of pursuing an app icon designer.
Beginning the App Developer / app.iz.io Company Journey!
Recently dealizio or deal.iz.io was accepted by the appstore! Wahoo! It was a huge relief for our app to finally get in. For those of you who haven’t herd of it, it is perhaps the best deal finding, searching, and monitoring app in the appstore. The quickest synopsis of what it helps you do is: “Find deals. Get deals. Save money. Be happy!” Enough of my pitch of the app, now comes the hardest part getting the word out!
Xbox 360 DIY Horizontal Riser Mod, With Kinect packaging aka “Sticky bar mod”
The Xbox 360 is undoubtedly a great console, however one of its major downsides especially first generation Xbox 360 is the sheer amount of hardware failures. With electronics and computers a general rule of thumb is that if you can increase airflow, and reduce temperature, you increase the lifespan.
This DIY mod is for both Xbox 360 first generation and Xbox 360 Slim owners who like to set their xbox 360 horizontally. This DIY mod utilizes Xbox Kinect packaging materials to create a subtle and nearly invisible riser to give your Xbox 360 some increased airflow by lifting it further off the platform it rests on. I perfer horizontal configuration myself because its less likely to get knocked over that way.
Complete RSS Readability vs A Mobile Friendly Website, Pick One!
So this one goes out to all the News Websites and Bloggers out there, I have one simple proposal backed with plenty of reason.
Proposal: Either display the entire article via RSS feed (for us mobile users) or make a mobile version of your website.
Mobile internet is climbing in usage, devices that run iOS operating system (iPhone, iPod touch, and the iPad) and According to TechCrunch accounted for 1.1% of all hardware on the internet in August of 2010(mobile devices in total are probably are about 2-3% now). And now several months smartphone devices are launching by the dozen, but what this means is that for major websites and blogs at least 3 in every 100 visitors is trying to view your website from a mobile device. And if you don’t have a mobile template for them, pages are slow loading, advertisements are less effective, and the overall experience is just garbage.
