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ok, so I fixed it

I FIXED IT! i figured that I needed to send the html page as an inline attachment. That seems more effective. But now I have this ne... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Selling on eBay: Better Odds than a Lottery Ticket

I recently had a great challenge with an item I purchased. I was motivated to sell it because other sellers were not having much lu... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Hosting Issues: Would you have to rebuild? A Must Read...

Every once in a while I've got to put aside all the niceties and be a professional you-know-what. I don't like it, and issues with s... 0 Comments | Read More »

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eBay Charity Auctions Are A Blessing

With all the challenges and competition of selling on eBay I do highly recommend to all sellers to host at least one charity auction... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Fragment Caching in Rails - Part 1

In my last post, I talked about fragment caching in Rails in terms of caching entire actions from a controller, or what is called Ac... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Feedback

Hello all. They say we had a three day weekend. I'm still trying to figure out how the weekends can go by so fast. I did manage a li... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Mistake #23: Ignorance of Technology

With the big guys building and offering once exclusively online apps to run offline, it makes me wonder about the future of the onli... 0 Comments | Read More »

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just my luck!

First day of school for both kids, and my first day off in months...but NO.. my poor son who was going to start his first day of kin... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Page Caching in Rails

The first type of caching content in Rails that I wanted to post about is called Page Caching. When using page caching, you are tell... 0 Comments | Read More »

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The eBay Traveling Lab Coat

This is the story about a special white lab coat that was worn at eBay live, 2007 in Boston. Anyone that may have attended eBay Live... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Picking up the pieces - a job for any owner...

While I’m not much of a gambler, I’m going to bet that a good portion of small business owners aren’t privy to the methods used by t... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Caching in Ruby on Rails

As I mentioned, I’ll probably be doing quite a few more Ruby on Rails posts here since I have been wrapping up a new application tha... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Dressing Up

Hello all. This week our web site changed a little. I think it's all for the better. I've had a list of things I would like to see d... 0 Comments | Read More »

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It's All About "Me"

If you’re an eBay member and you don’t have a “Me” page, then I urge you today to get one created! If your not an eBay member and h... 0 Comments | Read More »

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File Uploads with Ruby on Rails

I thought I would do a quick post about file uploads using Rails, since I recently had to create an application that would allow use... 0 Comments | Read More »

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There's no such thing as "free"...

Small businesses often face a financial dilemma - we need tools to do the job, but the budget doesn’t leave room for much acquisitio... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Can you hear the angels singing already?

It's nearly my favorite few weeks of the year, the few before school starts : ) where my lovely two midgets get in all of the lazy p... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Category Display

Hello all. It's been an exciting week all around. I've actually managed to get a few things done. You may or may not see these as an... 0 Comments | Read More »

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I Learn - Even from the TSA

On a recent trip to Upstate New York, the best available flight tossed me through JFK in New York City as a layover. I was fearful h... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Creative Networking from MySpace to the Marketplace

Networking traffic from one website to another can be time consuming. It can also be time very well spent! As a seller on eBay my s... 0 Comments | Read More »

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