Here is a super simple PHP function I wrote for getting a user's thumbnail image on twitter.


posted March 24, 2009 at 6:13PM
Sqworl, a project that I've been working on, which was mentioned earlier on my blog, was recently featured on TechCrunch.



Since being on TechCrunch, I've added a few updated including fetching images for unique URLs rather than just the base url. This was a much requested feature. I've heard many good things from new users, the growing sqworl community is quite helpful and full of new ideas.

If anyone has any questions or comments about sqworl, feel free to email or DM me on twitter.


posted January 26, 2009 at 10:31PM
The Startup Review - Tue 06 2009



Twitter hack
Recently an attacker compromised less than 50 of the most popular users on twitter.com. Famous tweeters include Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Fox News and CNN's Rick Sanchez. The attack was not related to recent twitter phishing scams, and all user accounts have been restored.
read more, and more

LiveJournal Layoffs
Russian owned LiveJournal.com has recently cut 12 of the 28 employees. Those left are finance and operations workers, leaving product managers and engineers in the dust.
read more

Macworld Updates (Non-startup)
  • iLife updates: iPhone tagging & location

  • GarageBand – famous musician lessons (guitar Patrick Stump, piano – Nora Jones and more)

  • iwork.com – google docs competitor

  • 17 inch macbook pro – 6.6lbs, 8 hours battery – no removable – 5 year life (says apple), $2799

  • itunes DRM free 69 cents, 99 cents or $1.29 – download over 3G

read more


posted January 6, 2009 at 9:00PM
So recently my good buddy Jaren Love (Vocals/Guitar for The Lampshades) hooked the writers of College Magazine up with my number to be featured in their College Innovators article for my creation of Flickhoppr.

My featured section


Full Article: http://tinyurl.com/64kcgh


posted November 18, 2008 at 10:59PM
What I've been working on

Sqworl.com



Sqworl fixes a problem I often have when I'm online. I want to send people multiple links easily, with a short description for each link. I want it to all be done with one URL so the person can easily bookmark that single link, and find all of the links within at a later time.

I built sqworl.com a few weekends ago, it's written in PHP (logo by Ross Hardy) however I'm currently working with my good friend Shaun Chapman to build a ruby on rails version with a custom built image grabber for quick website previews.


The Hive



My project at work this summer was to build a social hub for all podcasts and vidcasts produced by students and faculty. I did the PHP & MySQL as well as the HTML and CSS. Graphic design was done by Ross Hardy.


Flickhoppr



Flickhoppr recently got a new name, color change, and not to mention a new logo courtesy of graphic designer Emily McPike. Flickhoppr allows students to list the movies they own, and request to borrow movies they want to see on their own campus.


posted October 14, 2008 at 12:54AM
I decided I needed a new blog layout. Not that I blog often, but occasionally I will want to post something tech-wise or funny or stupid and this is the place. I also decided now was a good time for a re-design because I accidentally deleted all my old entries.

Soon I'll post some info of projects I've been working on (which can be found to your right) as well as some other things such as how excellent the new Ben Folds album "Way to Normal" is...oh, and about my new 1GB High School Musical USB bracelet I scored for under 4 bucks.


posted October 14, 2008 at 12:30AM