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Archive for July, 2006

It really was the blog spammers…

Ok, I’m so glad I finally resolved it…
Immediately after moving my blog to a new server, tasktoy became fast and responsive and has been running for a week without any incident. I hope there weren’t too many of you who gave up on me, but things are much better now.
The moral of the story is, […]

tasktoy performance

So, after struggling through understanding Zope memory usage, experimenting with a bunch of cronjobs and being told by hosting support that my only solution is to get a more expensive plan, I think I made some progress.
First of all, I have managed to eliminate the “MemoryError” problem, which I’m quite happy about. Despite the number […]

Lazybase fixes

I made a few more changes to Lazybase that people have been asking about.
A few people complained that they would make changes that wouldn’t save. I tracked this down to the caching behavior of the database layer, and it seems to be fixed now. If it’s still happening for anyone, let me know.
Also, after a […]

Lazybase design change

A number of people have complained that when they design a lazybase with a lot of fields, it will overlap the menu items on the side when if the browser window isn’t wide enough.
I had been wondering what to do about this, since my CSS skills aren’t all that spectacular, when I received an email […]

Adsense and Information Asymmetry

Mark Cuban posted this opinion piece recently about clickfraud being far greater than everyone imagines. There have been many rants about this recently, but what caught my attention was the belief among many of the commenters that the market would “correct itself” to compensate for this, presumably with advertisers offering lower bids for ad placement. […]

Cognitive Bias and Investing

If you’re an introspective person who has spent any significant amount of time investing or trading, or observed someone else who has, you’ve come to realize that one of the most fascinating things about it is the psychology and emotional responses people have regarding their investments. You’ve surely seen people who became totally attached to […]

Bookmarklets

A number of you have found this feature in Lazybase, but for those who haven’t, it’s definitely a something you should check out.
When you click the “Add new” link, you’ll see a link just below the title that says “create a bookmarklet”. This link takes you to a page where you can create new “bookmarklet”, […]

Press Coverage

It appears Lazybase was mentioned in “The Hindu”, which, according to Wikipedia, is the 14th largest English-language newspaper in the world.
http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/17/stories/2006041701671700.htm
Can anyone tell me if this is just in the online edition or if it’s also in the print edition?
Either way, this is pretty cool.

Motivation

A number of people have emailed and asked me how I’m making money from tasktoy and lazybase. Others have said, somewhat critically, in blog postings and forum comments that they just “don’t see the business model” for such applications.
The truth is that I don’t make any money from these applications. They were never intended to […]