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My favorite Internet video right now. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

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Please vote for my SXSW panel!

I’ve submitted a panel idea for voting on the topic I know best — the future of e-commerce. I’ve attended SXSW 4 times, but this would be my first time speaking. Please take a second to log in and vote for my panel on the official South By Southwest Panel Picker here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7998

Click here to vote now!

The Future of E-Commerce (Spoiler Alert: It’s Social)

Traditional e-commerce is so Web 1.0. Social shopping, group buying, mobile payments, and more are changing how we shop and sell online. Listen to innovators in the social e-commerce space discuss how they are utilizing the power of the social web to cultivate buying communities around the world.

Questions answered

What is social shopping and why is it important?
What role does the social graph play in our buying decisions?
Which e-commerce platforms are innovating in the social shopping space, and how?
How can shopping online be more like shopping in real life?
How will people be shopping and selling online in 2015?

Bonus points!

My partner in crime, Janette Crawford has also had a pitch accepted for voting. Vote for her panel called “Empowering Conscientious Consumers: Take the Power Back” here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7995
Willo O’Brien, an expert in indie merchant stuff, has an excellent proposal on “Social Shopping: The Future of Selling Stuff Online”. Vote for it here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/7988
Shannon Schlappi also asked me to participate in his panel at SXSW Music which would be AWESOME. I’ve always been meaning to hit up the Music side of the festival, but haven’t had the chance. Vote for “Socially Awkward: The Art of Social Media Transparency” here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/8037

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Posted 3 weeks ago
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An Exceptional Blog: Send extra data with your exceptions

Have you ever wanted to log the email addresses of users who trigger exceptions in your application? You can add whatever information you like using Exceptional.context - for example, you could include the following in a rails before_filter.
Exceptional.context(:user_id => current_user.id, :email...

I’d been asking for this feature from my friends over at Contrast for a while, and they finally delivered. I’d like to get even more creative with this than the example. I want to save lots of stuff happening in the environment when the exception occurs such as PayPal API calls and responses. If I come up with anything interesting, I’ll post it.

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Zoom

I just shrank the download size of the Storenvy homepage by almost 50% using an image optimizer called ImageOptim for Mac OS X. If you’re spending a lot of time worrying about how fast your web app is performing, you should take 20 minutes and run this app on your entire images folder. The difference is incredible.

Posted 3 months ago

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My favorite online video of the last month. Find 20 minutes to watch it.

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Some thoughts on Ping & Rdio

Along with the rest of Twitter, we were watching Apple’s keynote earlier today, and are pleased to see that Apple continues to innovate.

Coolest was Apple now agreeing...

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Send extra data with your exceptions

Have you ever wanted to log the email addresses of users who trigger exceptions in your application? You can add whatever information you like using...

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Anonymous asked: Why'd you close your Etsy shop? Is Storenvy much better for selling?

Well I always found Etsy to be a bit too rigid and stagnant. You can do a lot of cool things with Storenvy. Like customise your shop much more and add in variants. So I don’t have to list ruled and...

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Upgrade libxml on Mac OS X

Download this package and expand it:

ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz

Expand the archive and cd into its directory

./configure && make && sudo make...

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My sickness, the hussle

I have this sickness it’s call “the hussle”. Having “the hussle” makes you unable stop thinking about business, why business work, why they don’t, how to improve every...

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