http://caseyjenks.com/blog My blog Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:13:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We got a contest going on at IZEA to decorate our desks, with the top 3 winning a prize. Help me win! If I win, I'll hold a vote to pick a charity for me to donate $100 to. Here are some pictures:   To vote, go here: http://community.izea.com/blog/2008/07/izeas-cubico--1.html and vote for Tiki Time Once ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/07/06/cubico-loco-vote-for-my-desk-tiki-time/ Many thanks to shifisurfshots.com, who took these awesome photos. It was a short trip this time, 11 days including our 2 travel days. We stayed at our usual spot, Playa Hermosa, in Costa Rica. We surfed some of the biggest waves we've ever surfed this trip, and it never got smaller ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/06/22/june-08-playa-hermosa-surf-shots/ So today marks the launch of SocialSpark, the world's first Social Marketing Network that connects advertisers and bloggers through an online advertising marketplace. Advertisers are able to target blogs based on conversational topics and make cash sponsorship offers to the bloggers who publish them. Bloggers can make money by either ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/04/15/what-i-am-packing/ 1. How and why did you transition from being a developer into a venture capitalist? 2. How does your experience as a developer help you with your current career? 3. If you were to go back to programming, would you want to go back to doing the networking research type stuff you ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/04/04/vc-faq-questions-for-dan-rua-managing-partner-at-inflexion/ BarCampOrlando is a community building event which happens twice a year to brings together people from different backgrounds to share and learn from each other. There will be people who know Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, and other technologies coming together for Dev Day, and there will be people who know ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/03/20/barcamp-orlando-ill-be-there/ Your "big win" yesterday, which can hardly be called a win, got you a net gain of 4 delegates. Out of the 370 votes up for grabs yesterday, you got 4 more than Obama. For comparison, that's less than half of the net gain of 9 delegates from the District of ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/03/05/just-drop-out-hillary/ In a move that makes a lot of sense, Yahoo has integrated del.icio.us(a social bookmarking tool Yahoo bought out in 2005) into their search results. While Google's PageRank is becoming increasingly worthless, this is useful because it lets you see how many other times a particular link has been helpful to ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/01/19/yahoo-integrates-delicious-results-directly-into-search/ One of my favorite javascript frameworks has a new release, version 1.2.2. I've only had the chance to play around with it briefly and only scratched the surface of everything it offers, but I was very impressed. "You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/01/19/jquerythe-write-less-do-more-javascript-library-122-released/ So I just picked up a Sharp 42" 720P HDTV(kick ass black friday deal), but I don't want to buy a HD-DVD or BluRay DVD player because of the price and ongoing format war(although it looks like BluRay is about to put the nail in the coffin for HDTV). Apple ... http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/01/16/apple-announces-hd-movie-rentals-with-apple-tv-2-i-want/ It's like a vortex of suck. http://caseyjenks.com/blog/2008/01/16/and-i-thought-408-sucked-in-the-mornings/