This is a copy of an email I sent earlier today to those that subscribed for updates on Mine-Ads It’s been about a year and a half since I announced that I wanted to do this thing . Rest easy knowing that I sadly did not get very far. However, with Mojang’s new changes to their Commercial Usage Guidelines - I’m going ahead and Cancelling the Mine-Ads Project. Mojang is cracking down on what sort…
I’ve been volunteering as an administrator/web developer for a Minecraft Network for well over a year and a half - though before then I’d been paying special attention to the network’s attempt to monetize and reach profitability. It did this not out of greed, but out of necessity - the network has tonnes of servers and the administration is entirely unpaid, volunteer workers. I wouldn’t consider…
Disclaimer: This article reflects the personal opinion of it’s poster only. It’s been a little more than three years since Google introduced schema.org , and it’s hugely surprising how few online shopping markets are using the simple new standard to differentiate themselves from their competitors on Google. Let’s look at an example. I’ll run a Google search for some luggage. How about the IT…
Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14.1 was released today, and with it came the very nifty feature of Swatches! My team was very interested in figuring out how to manage and utilize this new feature for our clients. The first thing that we noticed is, for our pre-existing installation anyways, Swatches were disabled by default. To enable them, you need to go to the “Configurable Swatches” section under…
Google Voice for Outlook has finally shut down - the same week that the Heartbleed vulnerability was discovered. Luckily, from what I can tell, the server hosting GVOMS was using an older version of OpenSSL (0.9.8) and so was not affected by the Heartbleed vulnerability. And that’s all there is to say on the matter.
Facebook acquired Oculus Rift today . This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. However, I’m not one of those. While Facebook’s track record is shoddy at best, I still have faith in what they’re attempting. They see the potential of Social in Virtual Reality, and it’s a wondrous vision. But I don’t want to work with social, I want to work with games. — Notch,…
I’ve been reading the news lately of Google, Apple, & al. mutually agreeing not to cold-call each other’s employees (and, at worst, absolutely not hire each other’s management). While the later is certainly much more questionable on the legality standpoint, how on earth is it illegal to ask your competition not to cold-call each other’s employees? People are outraged about this, the vast majority…
Google Voice for Outlook Mobile Service was a pet project I started during my year between High School and University. I created it because I had an odd obsession with Outlook at the time and I thought it amazingly silly to pay someone to send text messages through Outlook when I already had a Google Voice account. At first, the service was run through mirrors (other people hosted my code and I…
I have very few personal projects, and I tend not to take very good care of them. Of these, the most expensive and one of the longest running personal projects is Google Voice for Outlook Mobile Service . I believe I made it the summer after I graduated from High School, and for some crazy reason I just loved Outlook. Either way, I figured out that Outlook, when connected to an OMS provider, could…
This is my first test post. I want to see what writing a post on Svbtle looks like. All in all, I’ve been a big fan of the simplicity of the platform – reading different posts on it while browsing Hacker News, and I’ve considered re-creating something similar to it in PHP to transition my own blog to. But now that it’s open, I think I’ll just stick with using it, and start transitioning my…
