I recently reviewed the Aquacube waterproof MP3 player and headphones, but they had a major flaw: the headphones were almost impossible to hear underwater, especially when making the amount of noise I do when thrashing my way through the water. So i decided i’d try a different approach and get a FINIS SwiMP3 waterproof MP3 [...]
I grew up in Florida and learned to swim at a young age. It’s one of my favorite activities, and though I’ve never done it competitively, I’m a decent swimmer. I’ve been working my way up to 1-mile swims every day, but the biggest problem I have is that it gets extremely dull and monotonous. [...]
The last few months have been very challenging ones for me, as I’ve been experimenting with new goals and daily habits, attempting to make the most of the time that I’ve been given. I’ve made some progress, and I’ve also managed to avoid burnout, which is an ever-present danger when attempting large changes in relatively [...]
I find wealth very interesting, and I’m particularly interested in the culture and lifestyles of the wealthy. Not necessarily the lifestyles of the “rich and famous”, but more the lifestyles of the truly wealthy, who often fly below the radar to a certain degree. At any rate, I found The New Elite last year but [...]
I’ve been working with Magento Ecommerce lately, an ecommerce platform that is becoming more popular, and I thought I’d share a few random impressions in case someone else out there is considering using it. Here they are: 1. Magento is much better than most of the alternatives. The popular PHP open-source competitors are OSCommerce, ZenCart, [...]
Just a quick congratulations to my friend Ben Lew, who just launched his first iPad app: Interactive Alphabet. It’s designed more for kids, but if you have trouble with some of your letters, you might like it as well I don’t have kids, but after playing with the app, I think it would be something [...]
Clients often ask me to recommend a PHP-based MVC framework, so I’ve spent some time evaluating some of the more popular ones. There are dozens now, but two of the early ones are still very popular: CakePHP and CodeIgniter. This isn’t meant to be a super in-depth review, just a quick comparison of some of [...]
Some things I love about Hacker News (and a few I don’t)
09.08.10 Posted in Education, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Misc, Personal, Posts, Reviews, Social Media, Technology by Ryan W.
About two years, I stumbled across this small social news site called Hacker News (HN), started by Paul Graham (PG…read his essays!) of Y Combinator (YC). For those of you not in the Silicon Valley bubble, PG is a really interesting guy who is helping to shift the balance of power in the valley from [...]