Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category

Last minute Mother’s Day present – donate to Mother’s Grove in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest

If you haven’t gotten your mom something yet, consider donating to the new Mother’s Grove in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest…

Mother's Grove in the Children's Eternal Rainforest

Click here to donate now

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Vogon Poetry is now available in the App Store!

Click here to get Vogon Poetry

I’m proud to announce the immediate availability of our Vogon Poetry application for iPhone and iPod Touch. You can get it in the App Store for $2.99.

Click here to check it out!

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How to: Get rid of widows in your WordPress posts with Widon’t plugin

I was just working on making some updates to the backend WordPress code for the Principia Pilot website (http://principiapilot.org/) and noticed widows in some of the stories.

Widows are the typographic term for a single word on a line at the end of a paragraph. I thought about the solution to this problem (basically add a non-breaking space before the last word of a paragraph) and then realized probably someone had written a plugin to do exactly this.

I tried two different plugins and like this one the best because it doesn’t overwrite the rest of the excellent WordPress typographic niceties like converting straight quotes to curly quotes:

Widon’t Download latest version here

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How to file a DBA (Doing Business As / Registration of Fictitious Name) in Missouri for $7.00

Grilling
Now we’re cookin! :)

It’s surprisingly simple to get a Fictitious Name registered in Missouri, and it only happens to cost $7.00.

Simply click here: Missouri Registration of Fictitious Name and then fill out two simple online forms (takes about 1 minute), submit your credit card info for $7.00 and you’ll get an immediate confirmation of your name and PDF invoice and registration documents to download.

Very handy if you’re applying to something like the iPhone Developer Program and they need to see documentation… :)

Formula Sensei - iPhone formula calculator

Formula Sensei - iPhone formula calculator

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New site design is live (also upgraded to the latest version of WordPress – 2.5)

New site design is finally live!

In preparation for upgrading a whole mess of sites to using the latest version of WordPress I decided it was time to finally upgrade my own site and to implement the new design I’d been working on for a while (for over a year now).

Check it out: www.gabrielserafini.com

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RSS2.com “Down for Maintenance” screen

RSS2.com "Down for Maintenance" screen on Flickr.
Today, as we were working on speeding up RSS2.com SQL queries and also repairing the database, I had the opportunity to make a quick little "down for maintenance" screen.

The boy is Jackson, my friend Damon’s kid.

Thankfully the server wasn’t down for too long, and it’s running well now.

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How to help the Children’s Eternal Rainforest in Costa Rica get $1,000 for $10 right now.

Monteverde Conservation League, U.S.

It’s super simple: Click this link, then join the Facebook Causes group for Monteverde Conservation League and donate any amount.

Right now, if we can get another 7 donors in the next 22 hours the Children’s Eternal Rainforest will get $1,000 for free. So your tax-deductible $10 donation could help save another $1,000 worth of rainforest in Costa Rica.

Check it out, and give a little if you can:
Join the Children’s Eternal Rainforest cause on Facebook

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New car insurance site is now up

I’ve had this domain name for a while and finally built something on it. The idea is to figure out good ways to save money on car insurance. We have USAA for ours, which makes it nice because it is a pretty good rate. Some people need extra help, though, to find the best prices. Hopefully this site will assist them in their search.

Check it out: Car Insurance Connection

It is built using WordPress, and will hopefully pay for itself through the Google Adsense ads.

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Neat adventure to meet the Dalai Lama by the I Live Inspired guys

I’ve been helping Benton Consulting work on the new design for the I Live Inspired website (now launched) and came across this story about the founders who have decided to walk 100 miles across the state of Indiana for a chance to meet the Dalai Lama. Their service is pretty cool, it delivers inspirational text messages each day to your cell phone. I hope they accomplish their goal of getting a meeting and that it goes well. Having messages come directly from the Dalai Lama each day to your phone could be pretty amazing.

Read all about their adventure: As I was walking that ribbon of highway

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Serafini Studios Kitchen – Welcome to the kitchen.

Screenshot of the Serafini Studios Kitchen website

Our kitchen now has a website (using WordPress of course). Lots more content to come soon, including the secret story of how the river came to be, the inspiration behind the pipes and the amazing triumph of getting everything finally finished.

Visit the site: Serafini Studios Kitchen – Welcome to the kitchen.

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