gdp's Comments

Online Aspect : Too many DNS lookups in an SPF record

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:34:16 +0000

The other 3 come from looking up the hostnames: aspmx.googlemail.com, authsmtp.com & salesforce.com

Online Aspect : A few words about EventVue

Sat, 1 Sep 2012 19:23:03 +0000

sure, but it's super hard to get participation above 5% with that approach

Online Aspect : The war on freedom (and why I like Ron Paul)

Thu, 8 Mar 2012 00:37:51 +0000

For what it's worth, I agree with him about de-criminalizing prostitution and heroine. I wish we had more intellectual consistency in our laws. If tobacco and alcohol are legal, why isn't marijuana? Is the role of the government to stop us from doing stupid things to ourselves? It's one thing when our actions affect other people (driving high for example) but I'm not sure it's the government's job to stop me from risking my own life base-jumping if I want to. I'd like for us to be able to do more protecting of innocent people abroad, but most of our aid currently goes to propping up dictators and when we're trillions in debt, I think we need to fix our issues here first. You're totally right about the meetup data not being representative of course. I just found it interesting. :)

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.