- I interviewed @jcleblanc of Yahoo! over the weekend for @unmatchedstyle - we talk about YUI 3.0 - http://bit.ly/wEuHP #ums Jun 30
- @WesternUnion Send an email to jason@period-three.com from a westernunion.com email address and I'll be happy to fill you in. Jun 30
- Pleased to see namespaces and closures in PHP 5.3.0. Also, the float rounding adjustments are much appreciated. http://bit.ly/j3Gem Jun 30
- Western Union, I have lost all faith in your website. I hope you're happy with your programming and IT staff. They're terrible. Jun 29
- You don't appreciate PHP's utter stupidity until you start adding a lot of floating point numbers (try it, I guarantee disappointment). Jun 23
- Midway goes for $30 million. Saturn sold for $100 million. The news gets more bizarre every day. Jun 5
- Attention all blog writers and editors. Cut it out with the "after the jump" phrase. It interrupts flow and usually results in my leaving. Jun 5
- Bing isn't half bad. http://www.bing.com/ - seriously, use it for a day. The home page is garbage, though. Jun 4
- What killed GM? Planned obsolescence and value engineering. Think long and hard about what makes your customers come back for more. Jun 1
- @petridisc How about "traffic was trending downward?" May 29
- Turns out we're not half bad at this. A year ago, UMS was dying. Now it's experiencing healthy, sustained growth. http://bit.ly/18lZjO May 29
- Dear Slashdot, the shadow effect which appears after I click on a post is atrocious. Please remove it. Sincerely, Jason May 29
- @copyhacker I agree with @stevenf. _why's publishing style makes me want to gouge my eyes out. I physically tire reading his Guide. May 26
- Is this supposed to be helpful? http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ -- self righteous, numbing and tedious introduction to a fantastic language. May 26
- Does anyone have access to Palm's WebOS SDK? I'm beginning to think it's a myth. Honestly, wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be. May 19
- @jkottke Probably a good place to start is the Google Finance API. Also has hooks built into Google Spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/IKBLP May 15
- Used a total of 390kWh last month. Roughly half of what the average household consumes. May 8
- Wufoo support is top-notch. Ryan refused to stop until I was satisfied. Many thanks. http://wufoo.com/ #wufoo May 4
- @briancline They also arranged for UPS to leave a voicemail on my cellphone that a "high priority delivery" was arriving shortly. May 1
- 5-day repair, online tracking, email updates, 1 free month of gold membership. Awesome customer service, Microsoft. #xbox May 1
- Please feel free to contact me directly or find me through my employer, Period Three, where I act as VP/Software Development.
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- Some of the experiments and websites I work on. A number of these P3 has acquired over the years, others have been started out of my own curiosity.
- Unmatched StyleOne of the longest-running CSS & style gallery sites on the internet. Publishing to nearly 4,000 dedicated subscribers every weekday.
- SwiftpressA simple email newsletter service. P3 built this out of frustration with large, complex newsletter systems we've used since 2003.
- ColaMoviesA movie times & review website for Columbia, SC. Serving 26,000 visitors and 150,000 pages monthly.
- MetroplexMoviesA movie times & review website for the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX metroplex. Serving 2,000 visitors and 8,000 pages monthly.
- PHP-SMTPAn experimental SMTP server implementation written entirely in PHP.
- The FTP ClientAn abandoned effort to build a desktop FTP client using Python and wxPython. Was ranked top ~2,000 project on SourceForge back in 2006.