DIY: Fixing Doorlocks that open with any key
Instructions for fixing the broken driver side door lock
december 2011
spiceapps/supervisord - GitHub
september 2011
Might be useful for auto-restarting fatty procs without using monit
supervisor
nodejs
september 2011
The Accounting System behind Accounting Software
march 2011
Blog on pragmatic accounting and some tutorials
accounting
march 2011
Accounting for Computer Scientists
march 2011
Nice coverage of basic accounting concepts.
accounting
coding
march 2011
Extractive SaaS text mining
march 2011
Very cool, especially the free plan. What I'd use this for is another question altogether.
textmining
saas
march 2011
Extracting text from a webpage
march 2011
Interesting to compare these approaches to my quick PoC approach. Especially the technique that tries to understand the DOM tree rather than just looking at weighted paths.
textmining
march 2011
Using git to deploy a website
march 2011
I like the idea of 'git push production', but I'd be scared shitless to actually do that without a rollback plan. I didn't realize before this, but a push target can have multiple locations, which might enable you to push to an entire web cluster. Interesting.
git
deployment
march 2011
HN Comments for "Ideas don't make you rich"
march 2011
Really interesting discussion about business ideas. The book "Innovator's Dilemma" is mentioned as being good.
hn
ideas
book
march 2011
Machine Learning in Python
march 2011
Another python ML library. Check into this later when sales are up and there is more data to mine.
datamining
python
march 2011
Boilerplate article extraction
march 2011
Cool technique for extracting article text from a page. More specifically, removing the non-article content from an article page.
textmining
march 2011
Add A Phone Numbers
march 2011
This article argues that having a phone number to your website should help you better convert visitors to buyers. Agreed, actually. In my experience, when I can call or use live chat when I'm confused, I feel way better about buying from the company.
Ecommerce
telephonesales
march 2011
Increase Ecommerce Conversions
march 2011
1. Customer’s Safety – let them feel safe!
2. Specify what you are selling – be simple and clear!
5. Buttons and styling – pay attention to details!
6. Get a toll free 1-800 number – show that you care!
7. Enable Live chat – enhance interaction!
8. Make a sales funnel analysis – study hard!
9. Use an Upsell Page – show them more!
10. Invest in photography – give them a better picture!
Ecommerce
conversion
2. Specify what you are selling – be simple and clear!
5. Buttons and styling – pay attention to details!
6. Get a toll free 1-800 number – show that you care!
7. Enable Live chat – enhance interaction!
8. Make a sales funnel analysis – study hard!
9. Use an Upsell Page – show them more!
10. Invest in photography – give them a better picture!
march 2011
Best converting checkouts
march 2011
I wonder if 1-800-flowers has a consistently high conversion rate and what their churn rate looks like.
Ecommerce
march 2011
PSD | psdGraphics
february 2011
Free PSDs of various things. Nice for borrowing techniques.
photoshop
design
ui
february 2011
365psd ‹ Download a free PSD every day.
february 2011
Really high quality web2.0/delicious/otherbuzzyword type stuff.
web
photoshop
february 2011
The Two Dimensional Cutting Stock Problem
january 2011
Solution to the cutting problem at TatFactory?
tatfactory
braincandy
january 2011