November 2011
1 post
Understanding the deficit in less than 30...
Now anyone could understand this. Apparently Washington doesn’t…
United States Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000
Now, remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget.
Annual family income: $21,700
Money the family spent: $38,200
New debt on...
September 2011
2 posts
SkiReport.com acquired by Vail Resorts
It’s a been a while in the making, but can finally announce Vail Resorts has now officially acquired SkiReport.com (official press release).
Special thanks to my brother Nate and all the friends that have contributed in some fashion to SkiReport over the years… Jeff Collins, Matt Logan, Ben Standefer, Ashley Messick, Trevor Usken, Jonathan Hester, Rosanne O’Rourke, Marc Hemeon,...
Next Chapter...
It’s been three years, nearly to the date, when I left my job to venture into the start up world. It’s been an awesome journey since then… three companies, two acquisitions, many $5 Little Cesar pizza nights, hundreds of code releases, and probably thousands of cups of coffee.
I’ve been fortunate to work with some of the best and brightest in the business between...
August 2011
2 posts
PHP to Python
I loved PHP. Take that back, I still love PHP. It still is my bread and butter, especially when I want to rock out a quick prototype. I’ve designed many many sites and based two companies (SkiReport.com & FantasyBook) on the php/mysql/apache stack.
With that said… PHP can also but a painstakingly frustrating. Here’s my short beef list with PHP….
No defacto framework: ...
