What to do with an idea

Dan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:42:16 +0000

Facebook. Digg. YouTube. Twitter. These are just a few of the ideas people had that became huge. How did they get this way? How did they get from an idea in someone’s head into multi-billion dollar, world-wide phenomenons they are today? For every Facebook out there, there are hundreds of ideas that have gone nowhere. These titans of technology have become so iconic that a movie has been made about one. The Social Network is about the early days of Facebook. I am thinking about seeing it purely on the process from some stupid idea into the final product. Now I am not expecting the 10 commandments of how to make a internet success, but I think I will get a sense of the hard work. I have ideas, I just don’t know what the hell to do with them…

To WordPress or not to WordPress

Dan — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:37:48 +0000

I have been having an ongoing internal debate as to what I should do with my website (if you would call what I had before a website). Should I develop my own from scratch or should I use something that has already been created and tested. While yes as a web developer I should be able to create my own (and I can), I just do not have the patience right now to figure out what it looks like. I like the way WordPress looks. I like that it has themes that I can just plug-in and change my look. Now that I will be using WordPress for my individual site, I can focus more on my other web applications…coming soon!

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What to do with an idea

To WordPress or not to WordPress