I’ve been fortunate enough to have been a part of two winning ideas at Startup Weekend, the first having been built, scrapped, rebuilt and scrapped again only to be built over a weekend by the founder and various teams of developers and designers. The other was an idea I had around improving the wedding website space focussing on beautiful design and simplicity.

My plan was to build the application using Ruby on Rails to take advantage of the simplicity of the [...]

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The original title of this post was going to be

“How to get Damond Nollan to publish more Blog posts: An exercise in Responsive Webdesign”

but even I realize the drop in SEO value there kids

The other day I wrote a post about Responsive Web Design in Action, showcasing the Swedish Broadcaster’s new site. The process of designing a responsive site usually begins with the mobile view first and then addressing larger view such as a tablet or browser window [...]

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There has been a lot of momentum for creating Responsive websites recently… With the rise of Mobile/Tablet device usage the Responsive  movement has been kicked into high gear. What’s a responsive website you ask? According to Wikipedia:

Responsive Web Design (RWD) encapsulates many different ideas and technologies, but essentially it indicates that a web site is crafted to use W3C CSS3 media queries to adapt the layout to the environment that it is being viewed in. As a result, mobile (smartphone/tablet) users will [...]

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I don’t normally write about products, however today I received my iPad2 Skin by a company out of Oregon called Grove; they hand-make Cases, Covers & Skins for Apple devices out of Bamboo. I dropped a whopping $20 USD on a skin for my new iPad2 and today it finally arrived. Below are the photos I took of the complete process, including captions.

I have to say that this is the coolest (not to mention eco-friendliest) product I’ve ever purchased. The [...]

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Robert Scoble wrote a post on how G+ has killed Twitter (paraphrasing a bit) and how Twitter could fix their issues, the primary being help users distinguish the signal from all the noise. This is a big problem across Social Media platforms in general, most people create meaningful content, I’m talking truly unique/thought provoking words, when strung together make sentences.

When any social media platform (hell even games or virtual reality) starts to pick up traction all the mindless junk, buy [...]

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This weekend (June 3-5 2011) I pitched an idea called ‘Elegant Wedde’, basically an update for wedding websites. Out of 28 pitches my idea was close to last and was not selected as an official group to be moved forward. I have to admit that I was really bummed that

I failed to deliver a killer pitch where everyone got it

Nobody wanted to work on my wedding website idea

I was a bit biased and felt [...]

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Last year I attended Startup Weekend Denver and worked on a really good idea with some amazing people. We were building a disaster management solution so people could find housing and other items during say a Fire or Earthquake, the project is still up and running with a full-time team (http://sparkrelief.org).  Our team won first place over the weekend, however that was the least important thing to come out of SW for me.

If you don’t know about Startup Weekend, basically [...]

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Startup Weekend Denver is this week! June 3-5 you can still get tickets here: http://denver.startupweekend.org Come down and experience something truly amazing. Don’t worry if you aren’t a developer or designer, SW Denver is for anyone interested in Startups, Networking or working on some cool projects over a weekend.  All the projects voted on will need folks who are experienced in Software Development, Business Management, Marketing and basically any skills required to run a small business. You could be the [...]

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First of all I was SO pumped that the Packers won the Super Bowl… It’d be a travesty if a ‘rapist’ would have won and more than likely have gotten the MVP award.  Anywho, that’s all I have to say about that!

The Super Bowl this year was EPIC!  The Commercials… not so much!  Excluding the Super Bowl during the Tech Bubble where every commercial was a DOT COM, you come to expect some amazingly creative ad spots.  Most of these commercials aren’t [...]

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I’m hoping this information is useful for anyone who is using Justhost.com.  I recently created a new domain for a side project I’m going to be working on and decided to setup the Free version of Google Apps.  Neither Google or Justhost provided the information on configuring your MX Records properly so I had to improvise. Luckily Justhost & HostGator have similar setups using the cPanel interface.

First, sign up for Google Apps, create your email account(s) and verify your domain.  I recommend putting the [...]

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