You know what would be awesome? Being able to go to the cinema, see a movie you really liked and being able to purchase a copy of it on DVD or Blu-Ray as you leave the cinema, at a slightly higher price than a retail store, of course. You know what else would be awesome? Hearing that your favourite band has finished recording and mastering their new album and not having to wait 3 months for it to be released while the band and label try their very best to hype the album up as much as possible only for it to leak way before its release date.
Looks like Zynga made a great purchase… It appears as though popular mobile game Draw Something growth has stagnated if the amount of games I’m waiting for responses on for a couple of weeks now, perhaps even more are anything to go by.
Hi, my name is Dwayne and I am a serial entrepreneur. I come up with one new idea at least once day I think is awesome, I fire up my IDE on the train ride to work, I fire up my IDE during my lunch break, I fire up my IDE on the train ride home and then I fire up my IDE and code sometimes for a whole weekend. I can’t help myself, it’s an obsession, it’s a problem and my brain won’t switch off. If I’m not on the computer, I’m sketching ideas in one of my many notebooks full of untapped ideas, brand names, database schema’s drawn on paper and problems written in big letters with question marks.
There have been quite a few, “hate on PHP” articles being posted lately it seems as though the let’s hate on PHP train rolls around every couple of years and the hate articles come out to play. This recent article got a lot of attention, it was well thought out and well-intentioned somewhat but that one single post spurned a new-found hatred towards one of the webs most popular languages from other bloggers.
I’ve been an avid Mediatemple customer for about 4 or so years now. In-fact I still remember 4 years ago Mediatemple having the occasional outage issue, but now they have quite a solid offering that has basically no unscheduled downtime. But recently due to wanting more power I made the move to a 512mb managed Linode VPS plan instead of a Mediatemple DV or VE plan, but why?
The grid server plan from Mediatemple is quite good for basic sites but that’s all it is really good for. I hosted about 20 sites on my Grid Server plan, about 3 of those were pretty active blogs with one currently fetching 17,000 unique visitors a month. The Grid Server plan never stopped being a great plan, even though my traffic rose the cheap offering from Mediatemple kept on running without breaking a sweat, in-fact I would be willing to bet running the same amount of sites on Hostgator would have caused some issues.
I just got myself an invite to the popular music service Spotify which has yet to launch in Australia but I’ve been able to obtain access to via n exclusive invite and first impressions are it’s friggen awesome. I used the US version via proxies for a while but then lost access so it feels good to have access to such an awesome service legitimately. It’s so new it won’t let me upgrade to premium just yet and all prices are in euros, so there is still a little work to do but the service works and it’s amazingly smooth and just as fast as if you were playing the music via iTunes.
I finally received my suit in the mail a couple of weeks ago. It came beautifully packaged and the suit looks amazing, the quality is so good. So what ended up happening?
After a million emails back and forward with the non-existent customer service about why my order wasn’t showing up in my order history (to this day my order still doesn’t show up), my suit just randomly turned up. I wasn’t sent any email giving me a tracking code, nor an email to say it was on its way. I’m not sure if the trouble I went through was just unfortunate timing during server issues or if Indochino is always like this. The bottom line is I got my suit and on time as well, there were no delays. It would have been nice to know it was on its way so I didn’t keep sending emails to the one person customer support team though.
Recently while doing my daily trawl through Hacker News I came across this blog post titled, Sim Cards Must Die. The article claims that one day we’ll choose phone networks like we do wireless networks and can change plans whenever we want. The sim card is quite possibly one of the best things to have ever been produced and used in the telecommunication industry. Could you imagine buying a phone, then choosing a network like it’s a wifi hotspot only to find your new shiny Apple phone deliberately comes with lack of support for that provider you wanted to use?
Recently on a client WordPress website I needed a simple way to get Vimeo video thumbnails via video ID. I couldn’t find anything readily available or even a snippet, so I created a function that helps out and even has a return or echo option as well.
[code]function get_vimeo_thumb($videoid, $size = “large”, $return = false)
{
$imgid = $videoid;
$hash = unserialize(file_get_contents(“http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$imgid.php"));
$the_thumb = “;
switch ($size) {
case ‘small’:
$the_thumb = $hash[0][’thumbnail_small’];
break;
case ‘medium’:
$the_thumb = $hash[0][’thumbnail_medium’];
break;
case ’large’:
$the_thumb = $hash[0][’thumbnail_large’];
break;
}
After wanting to order a suit from online store Indochino for a while now an upcoming event made me decide to take the leap and order one. I had only read great things about Indochino so being sceptical or worried about forking over a few hundred dollars wasn’t an issue.
Choosing and creating your suit is quite easy. Providing measurements is a rather tedious process but you only have to do it once and then save your measurements. Each different measurement is a step in a modal box with a helpful guide video showing you where to measure. It’s a beautiful process, well thought out and easy to understand.