Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com So, this incorrect statement on various offical Adobe pages has cost me many hours of frustration! We want ColdFusion 10 Enterprise, installed with the built-in Tomcat 7, to run on Apache 2.2. And we want to avoid Sticky Sessions, but we definitely want Session Replication because we have a large, c ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com via refynr.com Who's else is going to TwilioCon 2012? Use this Refynr dashboard, give me feedback, and spread the word! -Aaron Longnion (Founder & Chief Hacking Officer) ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com I'm super stoked to announce that our new website is up! http://refynr.com We've changed Refynr to focus on providing custom filtered Twitter feeds for conferences and events. We already have 2 conferences that have signed up, and more on the way. This type of branded dashboard is a big need, and so ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com OpenCF Summit is so inexpensive, it doesn't seem fair. Here's the pricing, hotel and transportation details . The list of CFML speakers includes Gert Franz (Railo), Peter J. Farrel (Mach-II), Alan Williamson (OpenBD), Matt Woodward, and many more... It's not too big, so you won't miss one session be ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com via refynr.com Check out the latest features on the Refynr.com Features page ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com Now that I've created my first startup, solo and bootstrapped in 10 months, I think I have a story worth writing about. Follow along on Google+ Read the first book written via Google Plus ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com Okay, here's the situation: I have a table called StreamItems that collects tweets/posts from Twitter and Facebook The IDs from Twitter and FB are large numbers like 73054697145118720 and 100000057279452_212728265405748 The database server is dedicated for MySQL 5.1 Community, has 4G RAM, and is Qua ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com About 3 months back, I really wanted more feedback about my home page and web app. I knew the home pages and app needed significant improvement in the UI and User Experience. But I felt that I had asked too much of my 500+ Beta testers already, and needed some fresh perspectives. So, when I came acr ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com (full disclosure: I'm honored to be the brother of GEO's Founder, JD Longnion) If you're in Austin, TX get a highly discounted oil change at one of 10 Austin locations, support a local startup, and make our world a little "greener" Green Earth Oil Groupon Deal of the Day ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com A new Refynr customer sent me an email pointing to this great TED talk warning to beware of "filter bubbles" , and the user wrote, "I believe you need to do without the filters. I'm not going to be talking about something I don't know about and so some relevant and important tweets will be screened ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com Since I'm not that great with web design, CSS, or UX I've started simple with the design of Refynr.com's web app. This is a bad thing at times for my users, who expect a better user experience, so I incrementally improve over time. One problem was that the content is made up of streams/feeds of dat ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com How To Make Publishing Tweets Even Easier: Buffer and Refynr partner May 20, 2011 0 Comments and 0 Reactions Follow Buffer on Twitter --> Here is an update we are very excited about. As of today you can start Buffering tweets from inside Refynr . Refynr is a web app that allows you to filter out th ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com Me too! So, I added the functionality for you. And you can help me test it. But first, you may ask, "What's the problem with Twitter Search?". Easy: spam! Let's take this twitter search as an example: coldfusion OR railo OR CFML OR OpenBD I put it in HootSuite, and here's what I get: As you can see, ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com Whether real or just my own perception, I feel it's time to monetize my startup. There are nearly 700 users, and another 40 on the LaunchRock waiting list, but Refynr needs to make revenue, or I'm afraid it will whither and die... Here's the current features (see http://Refynr.com ): Up to 30 custom ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com The only performance problem I've had with Refynr in the last few months is with a SQL statement I had been using to get the MAX Twitter tweet ID before doing a fresh API call to Twitter to get the most recent tweets. It only affected my @refynr account on the app because that account has the most R ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com I'm working on upgrading the architecture of Refynr, and am trying to decide on the new primary database platform, specifically for large volumes of Tweets, which I plan to store as JSON from the Twitter API. At the moment I'm using mySQL with nearly 4 Million tweets stored. The new requirements wi ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com After over 7 months working on my web startup, Refynr.com, I wanted to update my list from my most popular post, Top 14 Tools list, from back in Nov. 2010. This post is about the software, programming platforms/frameworks, operating systems, websites, and apps that I use to stay fast and productive ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com Unless you're a true security expert (reading a few articles doesn't count), your ColdFusion, Railo, or OpenBD website probably has security holes that you're not even aware of. Hardware firewalls, O/S patches, and best pratice web server configurations don't necessarily keep your web application sa ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.comhttp://Refynr.com already blocks Foursquare, Gowalla, and #FollowFriday tweets by default. And Refynr let's you block up to 10 other keywords/phrases, #hashTags, or Twitter users. What else do you want to block? auto-DMs spam @Mentions / @replies spam followers #tigerblood what else?? Add you feedba ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com This is actually the way I've been improving the quickest with everything related to my startup: fail fast, and let embarrassment drive improvement. More on that later. First, the bad pitch video: The feedback I got via my blog, Twitter, and 2 Startup Groups on Facebook told me how bad it was, even ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com There's been some interesting discussions on the CFML Entrepreneur Group on Facebook (join if you're interested) about whether a degree related to web development gives you "something" that others do not. Following on those discussions, I wanted to ask if being really good at anything (and I mean a ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com There's other ways to do this, and I'm not sure this is the best way, but this is the way I accomplished it with the Refynr.com web app: For the first 5 months of the life of Refynr, I've used only jQuery Mobile for the interface (which worked quite well on desktop browsers, but didn't look very goo ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com Interview Series Ep1 – Aaron Longnion of refynr.com Mar 14, 2011 By Patrick Pushor Interview Series Podcast View Comments Episode 1 Interview with Aaron Longnion about his social network feed filter startup refynr.com . We speak about his technology, how refynr.com came about, some of the tools used ...
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Posted via email from Solo Web Startup http://solowebstartup.com The old Refynr used jQuery Mobile even for the desktop browser version, which didn't even look decent in Internet Explorer 8 or 9. Here's what it looked like (from the jQuery Mobile Gallery website), which is good for mobile, especially iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad & Android, but not on your desktop Chr ...
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