Monthly Archives: February 2010

how to set up a custom subdomain for tumblr

By etagwerker | Published: February 28, 2010

Assuming you already have a tumblr account, like http://ellens.tumblr.com/ 1. Go to your DNS manager (eg. http://GoDaddy.com) 2. Login and go to the DNS total control panel 3. Add an ‘A’ record that points your subdomain (eg. ‘your-cool-subdomain-name’ or ‘tumblr’) to 72.32.231.8 – if you want to have your-cool-subdomain-name.ellens.com or tumblr.ellens.com 4. Save that configuration [...]

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The Whuffiebank API Ruby Gem

By etagwerker | Published: February 8, 2010

But I like the idea of Twitter handles having a certain monthly ‘karma number’. That’s why I built this open source gem. At Hopsy, I have used it to rank tweets. I have built a simple formula that takes the Topsy influence and the Whuffiebank reputation and returns a number.

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new york, a year in retrospect

By etagwerker | Published: February 2, 2010

The fact is that Aycron had one client in New York when I first arrived. Now we have four clients in New York. In February, we might have six clients. I am happy about that. It took a lot of hard work from everyone at Aycron, but the future is bright for 2010.

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