Leese Internet Technology

Facebook IPO highlights “The Hacker Way” – Feb. 1, 2012.

“Done is better than perfect”. Hmm. Seems to fall in line with what I know from Guy Kawasaki. And I’ve heard many times the adage, “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough”. It sort of goes against the grain of engineers, but I think it represents someone who has the perspective of needing to keep pressing forward and to continue making money. Its wise, but it sounds reckless. I like it.

I have a few hobbies. One of them is Drag Racing. There are many facets to the sport I enjoy. One thing I enjoy is the competition. Right now I am competing in a contest that crosses the lines of Drag Racing and Motorsports Marketing. I am REALLY interested in this since I enjoy the internet side of marketing and this contest is inside that realm.

Here is the contest: http://alwaysachampion.com/

You can vote for our ride here: http://contest.alwaysachampion.com/contests/showentry/1011638

So the next big question is not only how to make sure my entry has the most votes, but how to drive traffic and keep interest in the Champion brand after the competition. Obviously we want to serve the client well, and that means giving them the biggest bang for the buck. It means doing simple things like putting the Champion branding on our hauler. Wearing Champion branded T-shirts or Polo shirts at every event we attend. Getting “hero cards” printed up that highlight the cross section of the brand and our operation. Other than making regular appearances in the winner’s circle, I think we are poised to drive traffic and energy toward the Champion brand. Now, we just need more votes!

I’ll be generating interest and attempting to drive more traffic over to alwaysachampion.com in order to prove that we are worthy and have their interests at heart. Watch for updates!

I have been studying up on some of the latest cool things that HTML 5 is bringing us. I have been so steeped in geo data/software/programming that I have gotten slightly rusty on the whole SEO scene. Can’t believe we have moved into a unified arena for search called “microdata” – this is exciting. Not sure how I missed it but it totally makes sense and I expect to be adding this to as many existing clients as possible. It will completely poise everyone for rich internet experience as far as drawing the right people to the right sites. With semantic mark up this is going to be really exciting. No more visiting the “wrong” site when searching from your mobile device. Really looking forward to seeing how this works in everyone’s favor in the next few years.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when selecting text in code view : The BeetrootStreet Blog.

I was about as frustrated as possible with Dreamweaver until I found this today. Worked like a charm. Back to loving Dreamweaver (even if it is an old version, CS3)

I have been writing several blogs for several years. I don’t have very many subscribers but it is a nice way of archiving the things that go on in my life and helps me keep perspective of things. Anyway – one of the blogs has to do with Drag Racing. It is really a running commentary of how my own engine and racing development programs are progressing. On this blog, I recently felt inclined to add a bunch of links that are related to what I do – racing, Pontiacs, etc. The day after doing this I got a SURGE of hits, comments and overall activity. Much of it was spam but it triggered the question for me, “Why?”. Why did all this activity come on the site? It must have been tied to the links. But I thought Google’s PageRank was going the way of the DoDo. How could these links influence and drive blog traffic to my site? So many questions. But I may try another experiment with another blog just to see how it works out and see if it drives traffic. If it does – we may be onto something here

[ubuntu] VSFTPD keeps giving me 550 Permission Denied – Ubuntu Forums.

This one saved me today. Couldn’t get any files to write on transfer. Phew.

Set progress bar drawable – Android Developers | Google Groups.

Today’s lifesaver. When writing an app in Mono Android, you will need to set your ProgressDrawable = Resources.GetDrawable(Resource.Drawable.drawablename) to get your ProgressDrawable setting to be the drawable xml you have defined. This is how we can setup custom colors for a progress bar.

Using Custom Views in a Layout – Mono for Android.

Lifesaver today. Had some trouble building a custom view. But overcame it by getting my namespace references correctly. Woohoo!