Josh Fraser's Comments

Torbit blog : Help us stop SOPA - protest on your site!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:40:16 +0000

You can either strip out the if-statement and control the timing yourself, or change the timestamps according to the timezone you want to use. Here's a handy tool for calculating them: http://www.epochconverter.com/ You'll need to add 3 zeros to the end of a standard Unix timestamp since JavaScript counts milliseconds instead of seconds.

Online Aspect : Backwards compatible window.postMessage()

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:55:04 +0000

you're welcome

Online Aspect : How to use curl_multi() without blocking

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:52:04 +0000

I agree that would be a good feature to add. �Glad you got it working.

Online Aspect : How to use curl_multi() without blocking

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:13:20 +0000

Sure, an easy way to do this is to add a GET variable to the end of the URL you are fetching (ie. ?mysql_id=42) and then parse out that ID when the request completes from the CURL info array.

Online Aspect : Backwards compatible window.postMessage()

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:35:58 +0000

I've had multiple reports of issues w/ those 2 browsers (see the comments above). Hopefully I'll find the time to dig into this more soon.

Online Aspect : Why you should never use a CAPTCHA

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:28:22 +0000

Great point. I've written and talked about that issue as well: http://www.onlineaspect.com/2007/05/18/how_to_bui...

Online Aspect : A few words about EventVue

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:28:05 +0000

Things that worked well -- attendees loved our product. We did a good job at keeping the product simple and we used lots of tricks to auto-import their picture and bio from facebook, twitter, linkedin, gravitar, etc. That part worked well. Including faces in emails worked well for driving engagement. We tracked who got clicked on the most frequently and used their faces (ie. hot girls & VCs') in our emails. Every event organizer has an ongoing nightmare that no one will show up their event. If you promise them a way to sell more tickets (especially early) you'll grab their attention. The domains are for sale -- we have eventvue.com & vue.me. Contact me offline if you're interested.

Online Aspect : How to use curl_multi() without blocking

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:53:55 +0000

Ah, good catch. Yes, you probably want to close those. I haven't tried reusing the connections, or at least I don't remember experimenting with that. Would be interesting to see if you can make that work. If you do, please post your results here so others can gain from them. Thanks!

Online Aspect : Goodbye Boulder. Hello Mountain View.

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:47:23 +0000

Thank you!

Online Aspect : Goodbye Boulder. Hello Mountain View.

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:47:09 +0000

Looking forward to being able to connect more often. Would love to get you more engaged and show you some of the new stuff we're working on. Lunch sounds great. I'll get in touch once we get settled.

Online Aspect : Goodbye Boulder. Hello Mountain View.

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:45:59 +0000

Thanks Larry!

Online Aspect : Goodbye Boulder. Hello Mountain View.

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:43:46 +0000

Yes!!

Online Aspect : Goodbye Boulder. Hello Mountain View.

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:43:36 +0000

Thanks Gregg. Just following in the footsteps of giants. :)

Online Aspect : Auto detect a time zone with JavaScript

Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:56:03 +0000

you can't. �

Online Aspect : 3 types of winning

Wed, 18 May 2011 18:53:07 +0000

Thanks for reaching out Mark. I must say, one of the thing you guys are doing well is your customer support via social media. My biggest general complaint is that we're getting less than half the download speed we're paying for. Then a couple months ago my internet slowed to a crawl. Download speeds were okay, but it would take forever to connect and would periodically drop out altogether. I called Comcast and they insisted it could be fixed with a modem reset. Nope. Another call. Try replacing your wireless router. Still broken. Oh, you must need to replace your modem. Okay. Finally after replacing every bit of hardware Comcast sent out an engineer who replaced all the cables leading into our house. Our speeds improved, but we're stilling having intermittent latency issues when connecting. I'd call again but I'm pretty sure they'd tell me it was my laptop that is broken (it's not). I'd appreciate any help you can provide! Thanks!

Online Aspect : 3 types of winning

Wed, 18 May 2011 17:49:45 +0000

Thanks and great to hear from you!

Online Aspect : 3 types of winning

Wed, 18 May 2011 17:14:43 +0000

Great point. I'm a huge fan of Eventbrite. I hope they succeed.

Online Aspect : Backwards compatible window.postMessage()

Sat, 14 May 2011 18:16:04 +0000

I've had a few people complain about IE8 issues. I'll make a note to dig into it when i get a free moment. If you beat me to the solution, let me know. I want to get this figured out.

Online Aspect : Stop flash from covering HTML content

Tue, 10 May 2011 20:32:42 +0000

Use the jQuery version if you've already taken the hit of loading it in. It already handles checks to see if jQuery is defined before loading it in.

Torbit blog : WebP statistics

Wed, 4 May 2011 20:02:36 +0000

Browser support is the key though. It looks like JPEG XR is only available for IE 9 right now. But if it really does offer similar quality to JPEG w/ file sizes along the lines of WebP, it would probably make sense for us to offer that auto-conversion on Torbit as well.