People go all out to raise the bar on the Jewish Holiday of Purim. I just received an email from Meir, a client of mine, who decided to dress up as an iPhone this year. This is nothing new, many people did that last year...
On December 2, 2010, we implemented a complete redesign and revamp of a search engine site I own and operate named Search Engine Roundtable. I wanted to share the site's success with you all, something I can rarely do with client sites...
For high traffic web sites, hosting images and video files can be costly and server resource intensive. This is why companies like Amazon, RackSpace, Google and others designed scalable cloud computing environments to let you host files on servers that can scale in terms of bandwidth and resources...
There aren't a lot of things I like about Boston. Their public transportation stinks, the city goes to bed around 2 AM and their sports fans consist solely of whiny crybabies or frat bros lookin' for a fight...
As you know, we have been expanding after trying to cram 16 coders into a 1,025 square foot space. But it hit me that we never took a group photo, aka class photo.
So today, most of us at RustyBrick (we have some shy ones) posed for a group shot...
I have no idea why so many people are assuming the name of the new iPhone coming out in June will be named the iPhone 5? Why would Apple name this phone the iPhone 5?
Let's look at the naming history of the phone.
2007 was the year of the original iPhone...
Today I receive my monthly Google Places "Performance Update" email from the Google team and I notice something odd. In the impressions summary, it says my top impressions for the past 30 days is driven from the keyword [google]...
As you may have heard, Google announced today you can port your phone number to Google Voice. What does that mean? It basically means you can hand over control of your existing phone number to Google. It does not mean you can abandon your mobile company or landline company, you still need them for the most part...
As some of you may know, I was in Israel for the past 10 days or so. It was a family vacation and hosting the SphinnCon Israel SEM conference.
For this trip, I decided to not go with the AT&T International plan for my iPhone and instead use an unlocked Nexus S phone with an Orange IL pre-paid SIM card...
Photo Credit: engadget.com
OK, it's official: The Verizon iPhone is finally here. After years of false speculation and blogs releasing false rumors and speculation for easy traffic, the wait is over...
After coding practically everything (PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML) in the outdated Zend Studio 5.1 -- from around 2006) for about 2 years -- it is now up to version 8 but I wont go into that -- I've switched over to using NetBeans IDE full time for about 2 weeks and I'm loving it...
I just won a Google TV, specifically a Logitech Revue with Google TV.
How did I win, well I applied as a developer at via the Google TV Web Developer Promotion and I actually won...
Did you know that you can "gift" an app to a friend, family member or co-worker? You can!
How great would it be to give someone you know with an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad one of your favorite apps?
How Do You "Gift iPhone Apps"? Two Ways:
(1) Go to iTunes on your...
I received an email a few minutes ago stating, "I saw that you’ve got a good ranking on keywords like “free viagra” and I would like to know if you would be interested in working with online casinos."
I had to read that line twice...
On Friday and Saturday I attended the HP webOS Developer Day 2010 in New York City...
For this years holiday gift we wanted to go a bit more on the geeky side. We went through a bunch of ideas and ultimately settled on the gift of lava, lava lamps that is.
We felt these lava lamps can sit nicely on a work desk or nightstand...
Remember the Red Bull office can prank the guys played on me a few weeks back? Don't? Go check it out now.
A week or so after we posted, a woman from Red Bull, I believed named Lisa called the office to speak with me. I wasn't in the office, so Ronnie conferenced me via my iPhone...
Last night Joseph Cohn's new baby was born and she makes for the 8th girl born into the RustyBrick family.
Out of all the baby births happening while working at RustyBrick, the eight of them, all are of the female gender...
I've talked about flying with a baby on my personal blog before. Yes, I've taken my baby on business trips before as well. But as babies become toddlers, mine is 17 months now, they become more opinionated and want certain things.
Let me first say, my kid was awesome on the flight to Chicago last week...
There are a few things that help us run from day to day here at RustyBrick. One is caffeine the other is a good sense of humor. Today both of these things came together and combined into something great, a prank on Barry.
First a little bit of back story...