Thomas McMahon – Senior Software Engineer
This year I participated in my first Reddit Secret Santa gift exchange. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect out of it, but thought it was worth a try. Turns out, it was great. Now I didn’t get Bill Gates as my secret Santa, but the person who got me made me very happy. They got me...
I’ve been getting more and more into using markdown to take notes do to the simplicity. However, the biggest issue I have is that I haven’t found a good app that’ll keep all my notes together and synced across multiple platforms. I’ve been using Stackedit for a few months now, but that was until I...
I decided to give Facebook advertising a try on a page I manage by boosting a post. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so I kept it under $5. I promoted two posts, at two separate times, and one post did amazing and the other did OK. In both cases, I spent...
There are a lot of good email marketing companies out there, however there are a lot of PR “professionals” that don’t follow the rules outlined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These companies think they can spam everyone and get away with it, but you can report them easily. To report an email, forward the...
Facebook is turning 10 and we all get a pretty sweet gift. Check out their Look Back page and you’ll see a video highlighting the history of your Facebook profile. It’s actually pretty cool. Take A Look Back
As a web developer, I often talk to clients who don’t understand why it takes so long to build out their website. The answer is that you don’t fully understand how much work has to go into building a website and how many steps are actually involved. I’ve been working on a new version of...
Google is well-known for their ability to create great products. I don’t think I could live without Gmail, Google Analytics is fantastic too, and what would we do without search?! However, every now and then some of their products fail. Google Wave and Buzz to name a few. These fortunately were new products that, when...
I’ve had my Automatic Link for a few months now and I’m very happy with my purchase. It’s easy to install and just works. Setup First, just plug it in. That was the step I was most worried about as I hadn’t ever interacted with the OBD-II port and I’m not to mechanically gifted. However,...
Both Facebook and Google+ are using your profile pictures to tie into ads. This helps those ads seem more appealing to your friends since you Liked or +1ed those companies in the past. Social ads are easy enough to disable though. In Facebook go to Settings -> Ads and click the ‘Edit’ button for ‘Ads...
Remember 2005? Sin City was big at the box office, Hollaback Girl was on the radio, and WordPress was at version 1.5. Lets take a look back and see how amazing WordPress was back then. Keep in mind their site was run off the latest and greatest version of WordPress at that time.
