Try Cloudberry S3 Explorer
Recently I had the need to work with Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) on large volumes and needed a way to easily work with the files.  Since their S3 service is on fact a service, I needed some sort of front-end application to manage this.  My friend referring me to a very cool application called Cloudberry S3 Explorer. I'm not going to go into all the details but this app is very cool.  Also free!  As in beer.  You can manage your S3 buckets, distributions which I use, since I'm using CloudFront as well.  Also it has backup-like features in it for synchronizi

PayPal X Innovate 2009 Was A Success
My trip down to San Francisco for the first ever PayPal X Innovation conference has wrapped up.  I must say I left with an overall feeling of excitement this is by far one of the best conferences I've attended.  And for the $49 price tag we paid for the whole thing not counting hotel, I can't complain. First off, one of our intentions of going was to determine if PayPal is going to integrate their new Parallel and Chained payments into PayFlow Pro.  Well they're not, at least for now. The first day I went to four breakout sessions covering mobile, the new x.com developer portal and the new chained and parallel payment features.  The second day similiar with an added tal

RIP
Me and my wife found out one of our favorite local DJs and a friend has died this week. It was really sad for us because he was a really nice guy but had a lot of other problems he was dealing with that we couldn't help much with, despite how much we tried. It's sad to see someone struggle so much internally that they ultimately destroy themselves and the lives of people around them. These two videos are of him playing a few weeks back up in the mountains after me, my wife, Taylor and him arrived for them to play that night. I believe they are the last ones of him. One of the best minimal house guys in Fresno if you ask me.

Off to PayPal X Innovate 2009 Conference!
Today I'm off to the PayPal X Innovate 2009 conference, to discover some geek goodness on their new platform and API they are releasing.  This should have some huge advantages for both my company and I in removing banks and processors as the middle man for credit card transactions.  I am particularly interested in learning about Chained and Adaptive Payments. I shall report here any updates on new features that are released with the new API.

Why Working With Your Superiors Not For Them Pays Off
I really like this article I read on TechCrunch today.  It's talking about how Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook does videos with his employees to prove to their relatives or whoever else that they work with him.  This guy sounds like a great guy to work for and I really like this type of attitude.  One of the best atmospheres you can create within an organization to keep successful and happy employees is let them know that they work with you not for you.  Here is a quote from Justin Rosenstein from a few years back on his leaving Google and joining Facebook: A couple of mo