http://anand.biz Thoughts on eBusiness, web strategy, and the net Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:59:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may have noticed that I have not had a new post on my site since late last year. You may have also noticed duplicate posts for all my old postings. I had some serious issues with spam earlier this year and my attempt at custom spam filtering ... http://anand.biz/2008/06/28/back-up/ I've recently started looking at jQuery as a replacement for the Prototype/Scriptaculous solution we have been using the last couple of years. My main reason for going this route is the great plugin repository for jQuery that has a ton of ready to use "widgets". I'm also in ... http://anand.biz/2008/06/12/jquery/ I just got back from attending the second day at the Apple World Wide Developer's Conference.  Due to an extremely busy week, this is the only day I can make it out.   It looks like the iPhone 3G hype is in over drive!!  I can't wait myself to get one!  ... http://anand.biz/2008/06/10/apple-wwdc-2008/ It has been two weeks now since I purchased a "slice" form Slicehost and I can't be more happier. If you don't already know Slicehost is a VPS hosting provider that gained quite a bit of popularity in the Rails community when they first launched. I also believe ... http://anand.biz/2008/05/29/i-love-slicehost/ This was my second year in a row at Web 2.0 Expo and this year was even better than last year. The parties were infinity better (thought not ad:tech caliber). :) I tell everyone that this is probably one of the best events for people in the Internet space. ... http://anand.biz/2008/04/28/web-20-expo-san-francisco/ I just attended my first ad:tech conference this past week in San Francisco. I had heard a lot of good things about this conference from others and I can definitely say that it lived up to the hype for me. Web advertising and revenue is not in something ... http://anand.biz/2008/04/20/adtech-san-francisco/ It has been a while since I have dealt with this, but we are in the process of converting an old Zope based site to run on a Ruby on Rails architecture. The old site stores all user profile images as blobs in the database. Going forward ... http://anand.biz/2008/03/17/pros-cons-of-storing-images-in-a-database/ I just finished up a very good book called Breakthrough Business Development by Duncan Macpherson & David Miller. This book really focuses on the client management process and growing your business. This book is really intended for professionals that deal with client service such as financial advisors, attorneys, ... http://anand.biz/2008/02/26/breakthrough-business-development/ I have just finished the final touches on a user survey for a large enterprise web application that I help manage. This application has not had a user survey in two years and I'm looking forward to seeing the differences between our assumptions and the actual practice of our ... http://anand.biz/2008/02/09/best-practices-for-conducting-user-surveys/ As much as I like Photos.com, the membership can be steep for startups and small development shops. Here is are some great free stock photo sites that I have used: www.stockvault.net www.picfindr.com www.public-domain-photos.com http://anand.biz/2008/01/22/stock-photos/