I appeared in my second College Humor video today (a hardly working). You can see the back of my head around :48. If you want to hire me to be in any films or videos, please get in touch with my agent.
Archives for December 2007
PriceAdvance Day 7
The last few days have been database/server optimization and scaling day! Before optimizing any of the default mySQL options we decided to test performance against a number of different database engines to see what would happen. As a side note mySQL wasn’t optimized from the beginning, we decided last minute our other box wasn’t going [...]
Priceadvance Day 3
I’m three days late to this post, but Roddy and I launched the beta of Priceadvance. Just five weeks after our Ycombinator interview (we didn’t get accepted). Priceadvance is a Firefox extension that finds better prices for products you are already viewing. Our objective is to cut out the process of doing price comparison research. [...]
Firefox Extension – Preference Handeling
I wrote a class to deal with preference handling in the PriceAdvance Firefox extension. I found the Mozilla documentation to be difficult to understand. So, I decided to share the class. Theres a little bug in Firefox that took me two days and borderline suicide to figure out… Extensions can have a default preference file [...]
Old Things Still Rule!
Earlier this week I was out to lunch with a College Humor colleague. He happens to be the only Connected Ventures employee with a kid. We got talking about toys. He told me his son plays with Ghostbusters and Thomas the train. Has the toy industry really not done any innovation in the last [...]
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