So, I recently depoyed YouTube Direct for a viral campaign http://buythissatellite.org and ran into a couple problems which I thought I’d document for others (and myself for later). The campaign is for an amazing project which you should read about here: http://ahumanright.org, but this post is about coding… So for this post, Im just going to [...]

I have recently started using Django. I’ll save info on that for another post. For now, just a quick note about JSON encoding your Django models. I am building a web app where almost all of the action is happening via AJAX. In this case, Django is really just providing database abstraction and some minimal [...]

So I have been off the radar for a bit once again, mostly due to moving (yet again) and renovation of my new place. During the renovation and moving, I had also been meeting with the amazing guys over at YearOneLabs, a new startup accelerator and one of the centers of the very exciting startup energy [...]

So for a few weeks, I’ve been working on a very exciting project called BuyThisSatellite. It’s a fundraising campaign to kickstart the mission of AHumanRight.org;  to provide free information (read internet) access to the entire globe. The idea is huge, there’s no denying that, and when my friend Kosta told me about it, I knew [...]

This weekend I participated in the Startupifier bootcamp. Basically, a bunch of people come together, pitch some ideas, form teams, and try to build a startup product in a weekend. I pitched an idea that was selected for development and ended up developing the idea with one other person, Sofiane Hocine. We have similar backgrounds [...]

So I’ve been neglecting my blog recently. This has been mostly due to having lots of work to do. One of those big things that’s been on my to do list for way too long is now just about done. This has been doing some minor updates for the awesome NYC based designer Jen Lu. [...]

Just a really quick post on encoding AJAX responses that contain strange characters, probably more for my own good so I’ll remember, but hopefully someone else will find it as well. I ran into this problem when using the JQuery function $.load() which directly loads a ajax requested piece of content into an element on [...]