Ivan and I are in Santa Clara this week for the mysql conference. We are going to learn how to make threadless so fast that it breaks hearts. That is really fast. We got here a bit earlier today and have been waiting for our rooms to become ready. The weather is great - about [...]

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So I have been using twitter for a minute. I really enjoy it. I got all my friends on it and quite a number of my family using it. Its fun. I love getting updates and what not. However, the one thing I wish I could do with twitter is set the status of my [...]

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Today I decided I was going to build the asynchronous picture uploader for one of our new projects. I had installed the PECL Uploadprogress extension awhile ago and I just needed to build an example and then build it into our app.
However, my plan was spited by the opensource gods who delivered very little documentation [...]

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I have a love and hate relationship with Ruby on Rails. I love what it does. I love the activerecord, I love how it makes designers and other non-software engineers into raving MVC lunatics. I really like coding in ruby and seeing how much work can get done by so little code. All of that [...]

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So I got a Chumby awhile ago. It is really neat. I fell in love with it immediately. I took it apart, put it back together. I turned on SSH, poked around, played with the insides. I replaced images, replaced flash pieces and then I got real busy. So this weekend I finally got to [...]

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So awhile back, a little before etech, Kathy Sierra was attacked by some Internet hoodlums who used hatespeech and made Kathy Sierra feel threatened. She decided not to go to etech and instead posted a blog entry about how she was scared of life and didn’t feel like going outside. I think her blog [...]

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I broke my blog the other day. It was a pain in the ass. I don’t really know what happened - just that it broke. So I was thinking, I hate upgrading my wordpress. I hate it. I agree 100% with Matt Cutts about how wordpress has one of the most clunky and cruft creating [...]

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Usually when I blog about Google, I am happy. but today it is a sad sad Google day. For the first time since the days of metacrawler, a search for Harper Reed doesn’t return one of my sites as the first hit. This really hurts. I guess I have been slacker at my SEO. Gotta [...]

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In the last year or so Threadless has grown insanely. When I started in 2005, we had around 2 servers and a bundle of downtime. Now, just a year and a half later we have an assload of servers and haven’t had any load based downtime in almost 6 months. Its awesome. We have really [...]

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Whenever you read about tips to increase your Adsense earnings, you always get the same five or six tips about placement, color, and defeating ad blindness. Here are three that I remember:

Make sure that your ads blend into your site
Place ads in a prominent place
Make sure they are visible to all visitors (regardless of screen size)

These have [...]

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