My old pal Andrew Volpe & friends performed their hit single Hum Along in front of a sold out crowd at The Pageant in St. Louis recently.
Out of all the people I’ve met in my life, Andrew is one of the few dudes who I think could actually be famous one day.
UPDATE: The embedded video was foo’bard. You can just check them out + the video on MySpace.
If you liked this, be sure to check out:
If you’ve ever wondered whether the author of this blog is an Indian, black female, or well, what kind of name is Shanti anyway?!?!… well, it’s now revealed. (hopefully the picture of me and my girlfriend next to each post gives it away, but perhaps not)
You can read more at: sablog.com/about/
But seriously, the sidebar was getting pretty cluttered and had incorrectly proclaimed that I was still working at a company here in Phoenix for the past few months.
When in fact I’ve been telecommuting with the awesome crew at SproutIt.com, who’ve been in Prague (Czech Republic), but are moving back to California (The Schwarzenegger Republic) soon.
People also ask me from time to time about the status of other projects like Niner Niner, etc.
My secret: It’s still alive, just all highly automated and run by a kickass crew of writers!!! (it’s all automated except for when things break, like last week when our server crashed and it was down for 2 days. oops!)
A veritable Who’s Who of some of today’s hottest web businesses are bringing you a new workshop series on Running Your Business Simply.
Ever wonder how other creative professionals manage to become so well known they have clients knocking down their door? Building a business around your creative talents doesn’t have to be hard.
The Simple Business Workshop will show you just how to do it.
The companies putting on the workshop include Firewheel Design (creators of Blinksale), Fluxiom, Dabble DB, Shopify, DropSend from Carson Systems, and our own SproutIt Systems.
July 25th - San Diego
September 24th - Chicago
Just had to go through these steps again.
Anyone know of a permanent solution? OS X update doesn’t seem to like my symoblic Ruby 1.8.4 link.
Change the savepath to your desired temporary save location.
Click the 'Plain Text' link below to view the raw code w/o the formatting.
Via comments on this post.
I just rocked out some sweet ass JavaScript/Prototype/RJS code for Mailroom. I won't spoil the surprise by announcing what it does, because we can probably make a nice todo out of it on the Big Act.
It took some time for me to make friends with JavaScript. It always seemed like a hackish, backwards kind of language.
But between Prototype, Rails' RJS Templates and a little good-ol fashioned JavaScript, you can accomplish miracles. (But, I probably shouldn't speak too soon... We need to put some polish on the hacks I just wrote.)
Here's a few new innovative lending sites that I've come across lately in my web travels:
Kiva - an innovative new site that connects micro-lenders (as little as $25) to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Prosper - the online marketplace for people-to-people lending.
I believe both of these sites (or something like them) have the power to change the world. Just like eBay did with P2P selling, they democratize the capital / fund raising process between individuals.
Instead of having to go through a tight-fisted loan officer as GloboCorp Inc., you can obtain a $10k loan for a new biz idea from just about anyone in the world. That is, if you can convince them of your credit worthiness and your project's potential.
The one complaint I have with Prosper is that you really have to put yourself out there, to attract the attention of lenders.
Most people publish a photo and essay about their lives and why they need to borrow the money. (pay off credit cards, student loans, etc)
This could be embarassing for some people, who'd prefer that a rough time in their lives (like having $10k in credit card debt, or whatever it may be) not be recorded indelibly by Google & the likes.
Omnidrive is what you expect hosted storage to be - easy to use, accessible from anywhere and unrestrictive. Omnidrive will make your life easier by allowing you to store, access and stream your files from almost any web connected platform.
Will have to check them out and report back here.
(Hat tip: The Big Act)
Looks like it's too late to hit Lebowskifest this year. Wish I had heard about it sooner!
This post really puts things in perspective.
Looks like PHP and Java are neck and neck. Ruby, especially Rails, has a looong way to go before it could ever theoretically catch up.
The biggest problem for adoption is standard support on all *nix hosts. These days, if you buy a hosting account, PHP just *works* without any fussing.
Setting up even a simple "Hello World" Rails App can be a huge pain on most hosts, if not impossible.
You are currently browsing the Shanti’s Dispatches weblog archives for May, 2006.
Shanti A. Braford blogs here.
If you really want to know, just read this.
