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strooltz | 6 years ago | on: Books on Real Estate Investing?

Check out the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast- imho- it’s one of the best produced podcasts out there and worth listening to even if you have minimal interest in real estate investing.

They are also publishers and their books are great primers depending on where in RE you’re looking learn.

strooltz | 6 years ago | on: Making Time – The Struggle of Being Busy in Business and Life

Thanks for reading - I appreciate it!

Two comments on this point

1) I did preface that this is a loose framework that I run with and it's not set in stone - if I need more sleep on a particular day, I take it.

2) While all human bodies vary with their sleep needs, I find that I function best between 6 and 7 hours per night. While I can run on less at times, I do need to catch up. I find myself less focused when I start approaching the 8 hour mark.

strooltz | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

It's not really a side project but I spent today rebuilding the website for our asbury park, nj based coworking space - http://cowerks.com - would love some feedback/copy editing.

disclaimer - it is built on squarespace.

strooltz | 13 years ago | on: Apple - Think Twice

I bought the Macbook Pro retina back over the summer and was a little upset when a small dead pixel cluster appeared on the display after about a month of use.

I brought it back to the apple store (i did not purchase applecare). I was told that this was happening in about 1 our of every 40 MBP retinas and they happily replaced the display in less than 24 hours.

I'm not implying that my situation is "unique/new/ particularly note-worthy" but it is just as antidotal as yours and ended with a positive outcome.

strooltz | 14 years ago | on: Asbury Agile - A Web & Tech Conference Coming to Asbury Park, NJ

For immediate release

June 29th, 2011

press contact: press [at] asburyagile.com

Asbury Agile is a 1 day, 1 track web and technology conference coming to Asbury Park, NJ this fall. The conference is aimed at the builders and doers in the web community and will be held at the Watermark Lounge on the amazing Asbury Park boardwalk during the week of October 17th, 2011.

Asbury Agile’s focus will be to...

Contribute to the growth of a tech community at the Jersey Shore.

Promote “best practices” in application design, development, & marketing.

Showcase local “doers” and “makers” in the community (NJ, NYC, Philadelphia).

Each talk will revolve around a separate topic falling into the following categories:

User Interface Design & Experience

Client Side Development

Server Side Development

Network Security & Infrastructure

Mobile Development

Social Media Marketing

Search Engine Optimization & Search Engine Marketing

Scaling Your Business

Raising Capital for Your Start-up

We are currently looking for speakers, sponsors, and participants; to get involved, head over to http://asburyagile.com and register with our mailing list.

Press Release - http://cl.ly/1q352A1U093l2S021z1A

Media Kit - http://cl.ly/0Y2H3y3V2e360t2Z3E2M

strooltz | 14 years ago | on: EBay Inc. Agrees to Acquire Magento

I completely agree. It's painful to develop in and painful to use from a client perspective. I used it for some client projects a few years back and ended up just migrating them to spree after getting tired of client calls every time they attempted to update a product listing.

strooltz | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (June 2011)

SEEKING FREELANCER

Remote (close to EST) or on site in NJ.

Looking for a p/t freelance rails developer, and a designer/front end UI/UX person to assist me with new product/service features.

Our current stack is: (for all you developers)

Rails 3.0.x

Nginx

Linode VPS w/ S3 & SES

HAML/SASS (and soon coffeescript)

We also use git and capistrano for versioning and deployment

Ideal individuals would be those who have experience in the music industry building services to stream (and scale) content to end users.

Please contact support [at] dblsystems [dot] com with the header "HN DESIGNER", "HN DEVELOPER", "HN UI/UX" or some similar combination so it doesn't get buried.

Be sure to send code/design samples, links to linked in, github, and all the other usuals stuff....

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strooltz | 15 years ago | on: How to Beat High Airfares

I just tried the following route - EWR->DES->SFO on 6/10 and returning on 6/18 via the same route back. The price each way was ~$420 (which included 2 layovers).

I priced out EWR->SFO and United/Continental had a direct flight for $369. Maybe I'm the aberration but I think NYT should have done a few more case studies before publishing their results.

strooltz | 15 years ago | on: Why Everyone Is Talking About Node

I'm confused by the statement that "only one company came out of rails rumble". I freelance for a startup that has a profitable SaaS app that was born at rails rumble 2007.

strooltz | 15 years ago | on: New MacBook Pro series

still looking for an "official" statement but i believe that the thunderbolt port may be backwards compatible with minidisplay. i would assume apple would change it's form if it were not, as to prevent users from accidentally plugging in incompatible devices.

[updated] it is backwards compatible - source: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.html

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