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Re: Servee sponsors Wordcamp Columbus || servee.com website management and hosted CMS for designers

issackelly — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:42:56 -0000

Overall wccbus was a good time, lots of great people and a really good opportunity for us at Serveee.com Thanks! --ik

Re: Servee.com gets a sales-letter format makeover - Kasey Kelly :: Web Design :: Akron, Canton and Cleveland Ohio

issackelly — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:16:39 -0000

Thanks Jason! We need to get some more coffee again soon.

Re: Servee.com gets a sales-letter format makeover - Kasey Kelly :: Web Design :: Akron, Canton and Cleveland Ohio

issackelly — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:16:04 -0000

Wow, thanks for the detailed reply; We're hoping it does well (obviously)

Some of the things about color and format are coming from hard data, stuff that doesn't make sense to me either (the 'whys' not the 'whats')

Using green just gets more conversions, more clicks. I've seen it in some of my other clients' work; and it was something that I couldn't ignore.

As for the 'button' idea in general, when you only have one button, it should stand out, as in 'this is the thing I want you to do'

For bloggers and such, the thing you want people to do is read your work, and post a comment, so those should be highlighted. For us, we want you to build your website with us, so that's what we point out.

Re: Blog - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:13:25 -0000

Thanks! I think that I'm going to give this one away...

It was a set of custom functions using the properties of binary arithmetic.

A is the initial String, B is the key, and C is the 'code'.

A XOR B = C
C XOR B = A

And here's how to do that in PHP

$t = $_REQUEST['string'];
$k = $_REQUEST['key'];
$k1 = $k;
while(strlen($k) < strlen($t))
{
//There is a problem if the initial string is longer than the key.
Here I just repeat the key over and over until the lengths match
$k .= $k1;
}

if($_REQUEST['action'] == 'encode')
{
$b = strtolower($t) ^ strtolower($k);
echo bin2hex($b);
return;
}
elseif($_REQUEST['action'] == 'decode')
{
$b = pack('H*',$t);
$b = $b ^ $k;
echo $b;
return;
}

Re: For the Love of the Command Line

issackelly — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:38:47 -0000

From the beginning of Twitter, I've seen a huge ammount of its power locked up in being more of a platform than a messaging service.

I built mytwitternotebook.com (and a couple other of my own utilities) on that idea; that twitter was something that you could get at from your desk and your phone, and that in itself lends an opportunity to interact in interesting ways.

The command line aspects of it are both awesome and frustrating. You are unambiguous about what you want, and what you're getting back (a programmer's dream); but even for return data, you're limited to 140 characters, in that respect, it's nothing like a quality command line. You also can't do any kind of mashups with commands (In unix they called them pipes...mashups aren't a new idea at all) but you can't get what you want if you go like this

d stock AAPL | d tweetnote #stock

That would just confuse @stock, not send the stock to your personal notebook;

Twitter is at best a decent starting point for a mobile, shared command line.

Re: Blog - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:44:09 -0000

Sure! Thanks for stopping by

Re: Blog - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:33:13 -0000

Dependencies for other applications. Not that it's a good idea, but
sometimes it's necessary, if one library depends on jq 1.0 and another 1.2;
It's also a good idea if you need to use both prototype and jQuery on the
same page.. Again, not that it's a great idea, but sometimes necessary.

Re: Blog - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:22:38 -0000

I think it's a bit unfair to criticize jQuery in the areas that you don't understand; and 'code beauty' is really just a personal preference.

$ always returns a jQuery object; Always.

Part of jQuery is that you're not overloading the default methods.

CSS * could * be a bad name for a function, but everybody knows what it means; I think you're really grabbing at straws on this one.

Re: Blog - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:52:24 -0000

That would be a cool feature of task management software; 'I'm bored' (like
'I'm feeling lucky'); will give you one random task without anything in the
'waiting on' field.

Re: Blog - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:25:26 -0000

no kidding. I leave e-mail off when I'm trying to be really productive too,
and I've cut my google reader down to weekends only.

Re: Blog - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:35:10 -0000

Thanks Michael, I've been piceing together RTM and gmail for a while now, (and the moleskine/scanner), but I'm bad about timing if I have to write it all down. Josh (http://www.joshboles.com) just told me about Toggl, but said the same as you, seemed clunky.

I may end up playing with RTM a bit more, as I haven't done a lot of keyword stuff, or multiple lists with it. I don't have an iPhone, so no worries on the -emium thing.

Re: Blog - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:41:16 -0000

Thanks for the tip josh, I had no idea. I'm not big into audio-books, I only ever bought one, and it was a gift for a friend.

Re: Hands on with Small Basic - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:45:01 -0000

Not quite. I took a look at those, and ended up writing my own *which is much simpler*.

Here's a hint, it's based on binary arithmetic.

Re: Hands on with Small Basic - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:27:00 -0000

What I was getting at was 'which method do I use (inside the php script) to encrypt the string?

It's a pretty simple one; for anyone with any sort of crypto experience.

Re: Coworking in Columbus. An Update.

issackelly — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:09:00 -0000

Thanks for the update Bryce!

You're exactly right about #ce08 there was a lot of interest in the idea; and thanks to yours and Andy's hard work, I had a pretty decent idea of what was going on already. Columbus turned out to be too good to me to leave for any extended amount of time.

Re: Getting A Piece Of My Action

issackelly — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:58:53 -0000

Fred,
How do we get this started? What would it take from Investors, entrepeneurs, lawyers, and (currently) small business owners?

Your last paragraph hits all my feelings about the current financial situation on the head. EXCEPT people have been profiting from new technologies and companies without VCs. It takes a gigantic effort, and that's what I see as being the deterrent.

Without major backing it can take a very long time to get the momentum needed to go from idea to business. I think that refactoring the way that companies are backed is in order (not that the current system is bad, it just doesn't help out those who are independent of investors).

Would it be possible to gather an open community of independent thinkers, investors, and entrepreneurs for this? A cross between public investment, Y-Combinator and Kiva?

Something like this would be wonderful for the grey area between 'startups' and 'small businesses' who have higher aspirations, but aren't looking for the normal VC to Exit models.

Re: The Global Discussion

issackelly — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:04:46 -0000

Google does offer an API for their translation service...although I'm not sure how good it is for Hebrew.

There was a demo of adding full-translation to any page through their API at google-IO this year.

Re: In Defense of jQuery - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:37:21 -0000

Thanks Tom. I 100% agree with you. While I do think that jQuery is better, a number of things on the list had to do with personal preference.

The other libraries have their place.

Re: Why MooTools (or Why not JQuery)

issackelly — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:48:04 -0000

Trackback: http://www.issackelly.com/Blog/entry/In_Defense...
.."Not that it doesn't stand up on its own right, but I have to throw my $0.02 in"

Re: Why MooTools (or Why not JQuery)

issackelly — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:33:04 -0000

I'm going to do a point by point here.

1) "Eventually you'll want real classes to structure your UI logic". While This is what you want, the better I get at jQuery the more I use chaining. I also lean toward functional programming and not OO programming, so...yeah. I'm just saying that this isn't necessarily a global drawback as much as a design choice.
2) Ok, I buy that, but again, I see it as a preference thing, because before jQuery, to me 'regular javascript' just wasn't that good
3) Yeah.. you figured this one out (and Webkit Nightly does EVERYTHING faster, it's great...I can't wait for the mainstream version of that)
4) I don't do animations much.. but in my experience jQuery's have been...sufficient. Moo Tools animations do look pretty good
5) $("done");
6) You can do this from SVN...but at 12kbs I think it's really unnecessary
7) I've never checked out the mootools documentation, My experience with jQuery doc has been very good, and my experience with the #jquery on irc.freenode.net has been very good as well
8) I haven't done anything outside of 'basic usage' with mootools, but jquery isn't an 'unintelligible mess' by any means.
9) Yeah, this is just preference, but unobtrusive is worth it, especially if you have to have two versions of the same library on a page.
10) I for one welcome our new namespaced overlords.

Re: JS Sudoku Solver - Issac Kelly

issackelly — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:08:33 -0000

This one failed

0x0 - 3 : 0x1 - 1 : 0x2 - 4,5,7, : 0x3 - 9 : 0x4 - 2 : 0x5 - 6 : 0x6 - 8 : 0x7 - 4,7, : 0x8 - 5,7, :
1x0 - 9 : 1x1 - 5,7,8, : 1x2 - 5,7,8, : 1x3 - 1,5,8, : 1x4 - 4 : 1x5 - 3,8, : 1x6 - 6 : 1x7 - 1,3,7, : 1x8 - 2 :
2x0 - 4,5, : 2x1 - 6 : 2x2 - 2 : 2x3 - 1,5,8, : 2x4 - 1,3,8, : 2x5 - 7 : 2x6 - 9 : 2x7 - 1,3,4, : 2x8 - 1,5, :
3x0 - 2 : 3x1 - 3,4,7, : 3x2 - 1,4,7, : 3x3 - 6 : 3x4 - 1,3,7,9, : 3x5 - 3,9, : 3x6 - 1,4,7, : 3x7 - 5 : 3x8 - 8 :
4x0 - 8 : 4x1 - 3,5,7, : 4x2 - 1,5,7, : 4x3 - 2 : 4x4 - 1,3,7,9, : 4x5 - 4 : 4x6 - 1,7, : 4x7 - 1,7,9, : 4x8 - 6 :
5x0 - 1,4,7, : 5x1 - 9 : 5x2 - 6 : 5x3 - 1,8, : 5x4 - 1,7,8, : 5x5 - 5 : 5x6 - 1,2,4,7, : 5x7 - 1,2,4,7, : 5x8 - 3 :
6x0 - 1,4,5, : 6x1 - 2,4,5,8, : 6x2 - 3 : 6x3 - 7 : 6x4 - 8,9, : 6x5 - 2,8,9, : 6x6 - 1,2,5, : 6x7 - 6 : 6x8 - 1,5,9, :
7x0 - 6 : 7x1 - 2,7,8, : 7x2 - 1,7,8, : 7x3 - 4 : 7x4 - 5 : 7x5 - 2,8,9, : 7x6 - 3 : 7x7 - 1,2,7,9, : 7x8 - 1,7,9, :
8x0 - 5,7, : 8x1 - 2,5,7, : 8x2 - 9 : 8x3 - 3 : 8x4 - 6 : 8x5 - 1 : 8x6 - 2,5,7, : 8x7 - 8 : 8x8 - 4 :

Re: Benefits

issackelly — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:24:18 -0000

Believing that quality equipment is a requirement.... is a perk. Too many startups and otherwise don't have the same set of 'requirements'

Work with an insurance agent who sells individual health insurance. Make friends with them, and help your employees get insured, help with paperwork and calls to doctors to get medical records, whatever they need. When you can afford it, get a group health plan.

Work with a financial rep to talk about retirement plans, etc.

That, and stock options, give your employees real incentive to do great work in your company.

I've been avoiding hiring employees for all of these reasons. I want to get all of my ducks in a row before I hire employee # 1; So, when necesary I hire contractors for limited work.

Re: Blog Comments are up - Maria and Issac at Issac and Maria .com

issackelly — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:44:10 -0000

Thanks so much!

Re: Zippers Expedition - Maria and Issac at Issac and Maria .com

issackelly — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:41:29 -0000

Yeah! Awesome walk in the sun! WOOOOOOO!

Re: Can You Build A Business On Browser Extensions?

issackelly — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:43:44 -0000

"big and sustainable" does not need to mean "mainstream audience". It's about reaching the right audience for your business.

It may not be possible for a company you define as big, one that would take VC, and is looking for 20 or 30x ROI, but for a personal business for a developer or two, my guess is that you could build something 'big and sustainable' enough to quit a few day jobs and maybe even retire on.

Many cite that FF is not over a 1/3 of browser usage. How many other businesses target WAY less than 1/3 of the populace? Guitars? Camping Equipt?

There are a lot of roadblocks to consider, namely that browser extensions aren't (in very generalized terms) difficult to replicate. What I mean, is that if you make one, and charge for it, and are successful: somebody else will see the value in it, and make it for free.