Dan Grossman | 2007 January

5 Things You Don’t Know About Me

January 29, 2007

I’ve been tagged, which means I have to share 5 things most people don’t know about me. Since I’ve only resumed blogging about a month and a half ago, that’s pretty much everything, so here goes:

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Entrepreneurs: Go to College and Get a Job

January 25, 2007

A lot of people in technology fields consider themselves or strive to be entrepreneurs — to work for themselves, seeking out opportunities to create new value and profit. They’re self-motivated hard workers trying to grow businesses and offer new products and services. There are thousands of web designers and developers out there, many still [...]

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Got the Job: Microsoft

January 22, 2007

I just got a voice mail and e-mail from one of the Microsoft recruiters I interviewed with last week letting me know I have a job. They’re hiring me as an Application Developer. I’ll be writing both Windows and web applications with C#/ASP.NET and SQL server.

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Stumbling Across the Web #3

January 21, 2007

Agile processes, are they killing our children?
A cynically comical look at how software life cycles are really done.. among other things. Thanks to dagfinn at SitePoint for that link.

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Microsoft Interviews: I Won an Xbox 360!

January 16, 2007

I finally had the last of this round of interviews — my first attempt to find a coop job for April through September to finish the work experience requirement of my degree at Drexel. I met with two really nice people from Microsoft in the morning. First, a recruiter for the IT department that [...]

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W3Counter 4.0: Designing the Dashboard

January 15, 2007

Step-by-step: From notes to working screen. The first draft of the new dashboard — the first report shown when viewing a site’s stats in W3Counter 4.

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Stumbling Across the Web #2

January 14, 2007

Where the Hell is Matt?
Another YouTube viral marketing video. Did you notice the Stride gum logo appear several times? Would you have noticed it if I didn’t mention it?

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A Penny Saved…

January 14, 2007

The change in the mug on my desk and in my car added up to a bit more than expected. Apparently Coinstar machines now count dollar coins as well.

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W3Counter 4.0: New Referrers and New Searches

January 12, 2007

I try to decide what reports W3Counter should include and how they should be presented by formulating questions a website owner might pose about their visitors. W3Counter now answers two new questions I often ask about my own sites — “Who’s started linking to me today?” and “What new searches am I showing up [...]

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Review Site Plugin Updated to 1.1

January 12, 2007

It’s only been three days since I put out my WordPress Review Site Plugin and it’s been viewed hundreds of times. I’ve already been shown more than half a dozen sites running on it. It’s now been updated to version 1.1 sporting much easier installation and a couple new features. WP-DG-Review-Site now auto-embeds the [...]