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Freelance Work- 08/26/2009
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As many of you are aware, OSMstudios currently sells no product. We maintain the site out of our own
pockets. The costs of the server, hosting, and continued development come out of the paychecks we each
receive for our day jobs. In order to ensure we have enough money to pay for continued OSMness, the
OSMstudios team has taken up freelance coding at
RentACoder.com.
If you'd like to hire us for a project, click here
and enter your project details.
If you'd like to view our freelance resume, click here.
Finally, you don't even have to hire us to help us out. If you're looking for freelance work you can click any one of these
links to go to RentACoder.com. When you
sign up using one of these links OSMstudios will be marked as your referrer and will receive a portion of the fee you pay to
RentACoder.com for their services.
-Dawson Goodell
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OSMUrl.us - 6/27/2009
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A few weeks ago OSMstudios silently released a new webservice. OSMUrl.us is a URL
shrinking service that blows its competitors out of the water. OSMUrl uses a database full of short domains to ensure
that we never add more characters than are absolutely necessary. Right now our URLs are 17 characters long. 4 or 5
characters shorter than tinyurl.
The feature that makes OSMUrl.us truly osm is its statistics collecting. OSMUrl collects information from each and every
click to give webmasters an edge.
-Dawson Goodell
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Downtime - 6/3/2009
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Our main web server recently had a hard-drive fail. Fortunately, all the information had been backed
up the night before. If you arrived here early morning of the 28th of May all the way to mid-afternoon
of the 29th of May, I apologize for the "Site is undergoing maintanence" message you would have received.
-Dawson Goodell
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Andvestigate Published - 3/30/2009
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Andvestigate has just been published to the Android marketplace! We're collecting
feedback and have begun making changes based on what the users are telling us. Already
we've published a quick fix so that one can exit the application through the use of the
back button.
Andvestigate Project Page
Development Blog
-Dawson Goodell
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Priorities, etc. - 3/08/2009
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OSMstudios has decided to make a quick shift in its business model. For a long
time we've been turning out Code Samples, Tutorials, and
Quick Snippets. We intended them to draw visitors to our site and to be a
great help to developers. I personally use our code sample section everytime I
start a new web development project. Unfortunately, most of the hits that came
through these services were bounce backs. We assume a lot of people found what
they were looking for on the basis of them spending several minutes looking at
the page, but very few people have returned or navigated to a page other than
their initial landing page. I'm not ready to call our tutorial section a failure,
but it needs some redesigning; we'll be implementing a more centralized structure
better search features, easier navigation, more thorough categorization, a
larger knowledge base, and community involvment to hopefully breathe life into
the tutorials section. But these changes are taking a back seat to our shippable
projects.
Overall though, tutorial writing will receive less emphasis from the OSM Team
than it formally did. We're eager to wrap up Andvestigate
and OSM SiteSafe. I admit
OSM SiteSafe has been moving at a crawl recently and most of that is a lack of
motivation on my part to complete that project. I've been putting in a lot of
hours at my real job and have been playing around with several unannounced projects
at OSMstudios and am just feeling burned out.
With Andvestigate coming out soon we'll be
completing a ton of site upgrades, including unique projects pages and similar
such "marketing."
-Dawson Goodell
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