What Sucks:

• Screen brightness is on crack. About 20% of the time the auto screen brightness adjust is ADD and keeps changing. This is incredibly annoying and I’m not sure how useful this feature is anyway.
• The right hand scroll wheel (which comes into play everywhere, given the reduced screens size) is SUPER sensitive. Like on a hair trigger. The scroll bar should be like 2x wider and not as unforgiving.
• Scrolling in general is touch and go. Annoyingly so in web apps like Adwords which combined with the underpowered CPU makes it basically un-useably laggy.
• Would it be too much trouble to have downloaded document files auto open in Google Docs? Apparently so. Also, where is my Google Drive integration, Dammit?
• Still trying to find reliable VNC software.
• Trackpad is set on “molasses” and cannot be adjusted without busting into the command line.
• Intermittent wifi issues and glaring lack of flush dns routine.
• As it ships you cannot download any applications, it is 100% Chrome cloud extensions only

What’s Awesome

• Instant Sleep Resume
• 8 Second boot
• 6+ hour battery life
• Google Apps Login out of box, it was about a 20 second setup process total
• Lightweight and sturdy design
• Keyboard is comfortable
• Lack of downloadable apps is mitigated by wide range of extensions (yes, even for coders)

I find myself wishing that I had sprung for an ultrabook, but for $300, this is an incredible value. But as I am finding, the small amount of RAM(not upgradeable) and screen size are a bit annoying to try to develop on for more than about an hour. Just not something you can do a full day’s work on really. Killer alternative vs. a tablet for just about any task I can think of. Wanting something low cost, low weight and long battery life I got exactly that, though it could certainly use some polish.

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Cereal Hack is starting at 12pm Saturday June 2nd and ending at 6pm Sunday  June 3rd,. Sacramento Press’s HQ in Downtown Sacramento, 431 I Street #107, Sacramento, CA. Prizes are TBA but already an Ipad 3 has been pledged.

I am personally attending this event in a mentoring capacity. I will be offering marketing and product development advice to teams competing in the event and will be present both Saturday and Sunday.

Space is limited and tickets are moving fast, so reserve your spot now.

So almost immediately in my career I began to temper my results or at least the appearance of them; so as not to invite this kind of response. It is very frustrating to come to the top of a mountain peak and be told, OK, now we [you] need to do 10X more of these, at 10X speed or the same cost. Especially if it was a process not in the core of your workflow. Capable people who are bad at saying no often get stuck managing several incompetent coworker’s workloads (but not payscale). Freshly tasting success, if you say No to the 10X challenge, you risk being classified as A) an ass, having scaled the mountain soley to make a point, or B) incompetent, since you are unable or unwilling to replicate past success.  Helplessly, I find myself playing this role in our outsourcing management. As soon as I find a competent developer, I end up overloading him and smoke will soon be coming out of his head.

More often than not, those who respond to this challenge have the deck stacked against them. Since management is really mostly concerned with profit and organizational politics, they will not really have attention, desire or interest in properly setting the stage for things to be 10x. As with everything corporate resources are finite and scarce and in the aftermath of a victory and a “mandate” other departments will be even more indifferent to your purpose. This is the part where the boss turns to you and says through a smile “I’m busy, you figure it out”. A true innovator will figure out if he can do it, in a way that keeps him moving towards his end goals. As Steve Jobs said, “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are“. There is a level of end game Zen when one might have the Results Paradox factored into every task at hand.

PS if you are an entrepreneur or startup founder simply replace “Boss” with “Investors” or  ”Customers”. In those situations the pressure might be not 10X but 100 or even 1000X; the principle rings true not only for individuals or small groups but also for fully established organizations on the world’s stage like Apple.

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Now before you go emailing me that this had already been demonstrated somewhere else… I’m positive it has been done many times in many other different methods. This is my  just my version, and it is original to me. This fix assumes that you have Jquery installed and you want to place a mailto: address with your real email address in it so that people can contact you.

In the <head> of your document:

<script type=”application/javascript”>
$(document).ready(function() {

//My Anti Spam Device
$(“a[href='mailto:abuse@cloudmark.com']“).attr(‘href’, ‘mailto:you@example.com?subject=Your Subject Here)

});

And in the <body>

<a href=”mailto:abuse@cloudmark.com”>Your Call to Action Text Here</a>

So when the page loads, it will use jquery to replace that abuse@cloudmark.com email. If the client doesn’t have javascript enabled (which is the case with scrapers/bots), the contents of the javascript will be lost, and the attempt to scrape it will be foiled.

With a little work I’m sure that a bot could use a regex to parse it out anyway. But the odds of someone doing that are low. Security through obscurity baby.

In non-marketing-geek language, conversion codes AKA pixels or “iframe tracking”, are little pieces of code (snippets) which someone such as Google or Facebook, would to place want on a given website. The reason behind  this is usually attribution- the process of linking an user’s action to a campaign. Essentially, if you are spending money on Google Adwords to promote your website, you could place the conversion code on the thank you page of your website, thus alerting google of the fact that something of value happened on your site. What my site does is simply verify if the code is installed or not. Oh and it works with Google Analytics codes as well… and some other SEO tags are coming in the next update.

Is this a hugely commercial idea? Yes, I am doing an IPO for it. Mad Stacks of Cash. But really, I built the entire thing soup to nuts in about 9 hours using a little RegEx, PHP and Jquery. It saves me about 60 minutes per week considering the time spent personally doing this task not to mention helping clients. So at that rate the investment pays off for me in a little under 3 months, when you count the time spent to write this post.

Bon Appetit

PS, if you have any conversion code or pixel you think it SHOULD look for, but doesn’t, let me know in the comments! Or, if you can find an instance where it cannot find a code that you can see is there.