Posted by Daniel
on May 04, 2010
Another big change in life! In a rapid series of events at the end of last week I talked to a recruiter, interviewed for a job, and was offered the job. After a weekend to think about it and “count the cost” of giving up working for myself I have decided to accept the job. In two weeks time I’ll be working for Weinstein Properties doing web application development. I’m excited about this change and look forward to seeing what this next step in my career will hold. Since I’ve now communicated to my clients about it I can tell all of you lovely people about it.
Nerdy stuff: The work will be maintaining/updating some PHP web applications, transitioning some of those to Ruby on Rails, and creating new applications in Ruby on Rails. I’ve got a lot to learn and explore and I’m very excited about it!
Look for some posts about going back into a 9-5 after being self-employed for a few years, I’m sure there will be some transitions!
Posted by Daniel
on April 08, 2009
For those of your not on twitter(or Facebook) you will not have seen that we(Farrell IT and PharrOut) launched a new site today: rvatweets!
Yes, it’s pink. Get over it. 
The point of the site is to allow community conversation and reporting over twitter and flickr. Anytime any major event happens in RVA we’ll have a tag on there for it. Tag your content with that tag and your tweets/photos will end up on the site. We hope it will be a great way for people to stay up to date on things and just be a good general resource for RVA. Enjoy!
Posted by Daniel
on February 22, 2009
Update 2: WNRIR is now on the Public Radio Tuner as well! Now we just need WCVE and we’ll be all set!
Update: WNRN is now on the Public Radio Tuner app as seen in the comments and used by me this morning. Go WNRN!
This weekend I found out about the Public Radio Tuner app for the iPhone. It’s a very cool app and will get some use here. Unfortunately it doesn’t have any of the local public radio stations on it. So I took it upon myself to figure out how to listen to them and here is what I came up with:
Install the free FStream app from the App Store. Setup the following stations in your favorites:
Name: WRIR
URL: http://wrir.serverroom.us:7722/wrir
Name: WCVE
URL: http://208.80.52.126/WCVE
URL: http://amber.streamguys.com:4500/wcvehd1
Name: WCVE2
URL: http://amber.streamguys.com:4500/wcve
Name: WNRN
URL: mms://audio.musictoday.com/wnrn
URL: http://broadcast.wnrn.org:8000/wnrn.mp3
They all seem to work pretty well and it’s nice to be able to stream them from anywhere. Just thought I’d share that with anyone else who may care.
Posted by Daniel
on January 05, 2009
I haven’t really been blogging much, nor do I really feel compelled to write a lot. I’ll probably still post something occasionally when I want to rant about something or really explore something, but for the most part if you want to follow me you should follow my twitter or become my friend on facebook. I’m even working on getting a lifestream setup here for your convenience. It still needs to be themed, but once it is done I’ll be simplifying this blog some and encouraging that to be my public face. Just FYI.
On a side note, I’ve been really impressed with all the applications that have sprung up around twitter. It’s amazing what an ecosystem such a simple service has inspired. Besides the million clients there are services like tinyurl.com, twitpic.com, twiddeo.com, twtpoll.com and a million more like it. I do kind of wish they would get on the ball and get OAuth working so I wouldn’t have to put my twitter user account info into any of these sites. Oh well… still fun.
Posted by Daniel
on August 11, 2008
Just wanted to take a second and give a shoutout to the amazing video website Vimeo. It does a fantastic job of making it very easy to share videos online. The site is very easy to use, the community is thriving, the video quality is fantastic(better than my camcorder does with their HD support) and they allow you to customize the colors of your embedded video to fit your site as well. I have nothing but the utmost praise to give them! Way to go Connected Ventures on a fantastic site!
My profile page is here on vimeo if you sign up add me as a friend.
