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NOT squatting on domain names

Eric — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:49:02 +0000

In the past, I bought quite a few domain names with the intention of building an application, website, funny little page, or anything in-between. The majority of those sites are sitting completely unused. I doubt they are popular domains or very desirable, but in case they are, I’ve put together a little page saying “I’m not squatting on this domain name” and letting people e-mail me if they want the domain name. And I will sell it to them for what I paid for it. Why not; I’m not using it. And squatters suck! Yeah, I’ll let them expire when that time comes, but I usually did 2+ year registration (ah, being overzealous).

Here’s what the page looks like (big ups to Josh for the original design used in FreshBerry’s signup form):

InvoiceWatcher.com - not squatting

If you want to do the same, and like the look of that, I figured I’d post the code and share (the download is at the bottom of this post).

Necessary pre-requisites

PHP (tested with PHP 4 and PHP 5)
The ability to send mail from PHP (see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php )

Instruction to set it up

Sign up for re-catpcha at http://www.recaptcha.net and copy your public and private keys.
Open index.php and put your public key in the top
Open send.php and put your private key and email address in the top

Download

NotSquatting.zip. (No license, use as you wish, without restriction or warranty). Have fun! And don’t squat. Squatters suck.

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Book Keeper, FreshBooks for BlackBerry, released to public!

Eric — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:55:00 +0000

I’ve released Book Keeper, my FreshBooks BlackBerry application to the public. It’s still a “beta”, though it’s been through a private beta and is pretty solid, but I’ve still got features to iron out along the way. Come and grab a download!

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Versite Website Re-design

Eric — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:41:51 +0000

I decided to give Versite’s main page a re-design. I just thought the old one was too verbose… too much of a "hey, read all this stuff, we can do tons of things, hire us!" kind of site. That’s really not my style and I’d been kind of embarrassed of that, so I decided to nix it. And it was a good enough time to get a re-design done. I hired Josh to design the site, pointing out a few things I liked and letting him run with it. At first I said "keep it simple as hell…. simple, simple, simple" and Josh hit that on the nose. But, I was wrong, I didn’t want simple (Josh said it perfectly himself – it looked like a color wireframe). So, back to the drawing board we went and I’m very happy with the outcome. It’s simple and clean, makes our message stand out, provides clear ways to contact us, and doesn’t make the viewer read a zillion things before figuring out what we do. Mission accomplished. Oh, and it’s got orange in it. Mmmm, orange (Jol, that is all your fault).

I spent a little bit of time tonight revamping the Word Press template to sorta match the new site. Fixing up the blog will be Josh’s next task for Versite.

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