Forge is dead! Long Live the Forge!

September 1, 2009

For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing virtually all of my development on an Amazon EC2 server I’ve called “the forge”. In order to make sure my backup system was 100%, I just “tested” having a catastrophic failure. I brought up a new instance, cloned the EBS volume (disk), and switched the elastic [...]

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Finding Silence

August 16, 2009

This weekend I took some “guy time” with my son, Lee. We went to Mammoth Cave, someplace I visited yearly in my youth. While Lee and I had a great time, and there’s lots of little stories that will come out of this trip, the subject of this post is about finding my personal path [...]

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Playing with Ubuntu

May 23, 2009

I have an old P4/3.4Ghz tower that has been (up until this point) running Fedora Core 8. One thing I have never been able to do is to get the Linksys wireless networking card running. Since I need to rebuild it for the kids anyway (they are all hot on learning how to really work [...]

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Any WordPress fans out there?

May 21, 2009

I’ve had a few requests that I port the Intellispire Auto-Responder products I’ve created for Joomla! over to WordPress. I’m still unsure though – will people using wordpress use plugins for auto-responders? You can find a complete list of autoresponder products here. Let me know what you think – should we port? Or spend the [...]

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The death of Listbuilding?

May 17, 2009

Traditionally, Internet “niche” marketing has been traditionally taught in the following manner: Create a “free” report create a “squeeze” page that captures a prospect’s name and address, and in return, the free report is provided. on the “back end” you sell the product you really want the prospect to purchase. The above may be an [...]

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Continuity Summit 2009

May 15, 2009

Savannah and I are at Ryan Lee’s first ever Continuity Summit. We’re there promoting Joomla! as the membership software of choice as well as our own Easy Membership sites. You can keep updated on twitter or from our special page set up just for the event. The easy membership sites website is currently in pre-launch, [...]

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