I don’t have the time or resources to bring all of the ideas I have to life. Instead of forever shelving them on my “someday” list, I thought I’d offer them up so that maybe someone else could develop them. Today’s idea involves Google Maps and IMDB. They both have tons of data just begging to be mashed together.
People are opinionated about their web host. I use GoDaddy. I have since I started piggybacking off my dad’s account years ago. I’ve never had a problem. It’s been so long that our years of prepaid service have started to automatically renew. I was surprised when my PayPal account was charged $4.99 from GoDaddy the other day. It didn’t seem right so I investigated.
I just finished reading Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh tonight. It is the first book I’ve read cover to cover in probably five years. I read blog posts by the dozen each day and have been buying books over the past few months, but just haven’t been able to finish any or even start many of them. That being said I need to disclose for legal reasons that I received a free advanced copy of the book, but these are my honest opinions of it. I had already pre-ordered a copy on Amazon before this opportunity. I genuinely enjoyed Tony’s personal story, the rise of Zappos, and the lessons about happiness that were intertwined throughout the book.
Everyone has been in an uproar about privacy since Facebook’s new privacy changes. This happens every time Facebook changes anything. Close to half a billion people have stuck around through all the changes. The irony of it all is that now developers are releasing tools that utilize Facebook’s new privacy-ignoring features to help users “reclaim” their privacy. One of the more popular tools out there is from ReclaimPrivacy.org which I think is misleading, insecure, and only useful if you are completely helpless in using Facebook’s privacy settings.
Everyone works differently. They use different tools, methods, and setups. I spent a better part of my Sunday getting up and running with a more serious development environment and thought I’d share what I’m working with. Now to be clear, I’m a web developer (for now) so my goals were to be able to run code locally, use a version control system, and find a text editor that helped me be more productive.