New Role – CTO Posse.com
A few weeks ago I ‘officially’ became the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Posse.com, an Australian tech startup that provides a product & service affiliate sales channel for Social Networks that currently focusses on selling tickets to events.
So what is an “affiliate sales channel” you ask? Think of it this way; as our lives on the internet evolve, we find that we are rediscovering the old word-of-mouth adage through our new trusted networks; the online social networks....
Posted by Rob James on April 29th, 2010
Making Virgin Mobile Broad...
After much frustration, I finally got my Virgin Mobile Huawai E160e modem to work on my MacBook Pro!!! And although it shouldn’t be that difficult, there is one quirk that I needed to do to make it work.
UPDATE: I have now used this solution on 2 different Macbook Pros; a 15″ 3.06 Core 2 Duo and now my new 15″ 2.6GHz i7.
Firstly, you don’t need the Virgin Connect application...
Posted by Rob James on February 15th, 2010
Bluetooth Plantronics 906 ...
Like many people that work in front of their PC’s and Macs, I spend a bit of time on different types of calls; mobile, landline, Skype, and Conference Calls. I am my Skype and my iPhone a lot, but never seem to find a happy place for what devices I use to listen to or speak on.
My solution so far has been to use a Logitech headset on my Mac when I am Skype calls or conference calls (where audio...
Posted by Rob James on February 3rd, 2010
Design to HTML Services, a...
I finally got a UI designer to complete the mockups for my site. And when it was time to get the HTML markup, he suggested I use a “Design to HTML” service. There is lots of them out there. You pretty much give them the Photoshop PSD file, and in return they provide you with XHTML/CSS markup.
So I gave it a try….my verdict? Won’t do it again….
Now this is no criticism...
Posted by Rob James on January 27th, 2010
Configure Apache to run To...
I have decided to blog about this, as I have had never ending problems in the past to try and get this configured. Here is the scenario; you have a project that requires hosting a single website in a single web domain, but you have a mix of PHP applications and Java (or in my instance, GRAILS) applications that you need to run. The way you do this, is configure both PHP and Java applications to run...
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