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T-Shirt Giveaway

trent — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:48:33 +0000

The delivery is in, now it’s time to give them away! There are 10 t-shirts going out the door, and one can be yours!

Entering is simple, just leave a thought, suggestion, creative criticism, or compliment concerning CarBounce.com in the comments below. It can be good or bad, short or detailed. Oh, and don’t forget to leave a valid email address.

What is being give away?

10: T-Shirt + 1 Year Premium Membership to CarBounce.com
10: 1 Year Premium Membership to CarBounce.com

T-shirts will be sent only within the United States. Winners outside the United States may receive a second Year Premium Membership to CarBounce. A total of 20 winners will be chosen at random. Only one entry per person.

Deadline is set for Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 11:59 PM. I am extending the deadline since I did not have enough entries. The first 5 valid entries within the initial deadline (Feb 18) are winners. That leaves 5 more t-shirts and 10 more memberships! Good Luck!

PS: The first Car Bounce coupon ILUVCB0212 can get you 40% off!

Car Bounce – Keep Up with Your Car’s Value

Car Bounce – Keep Up with Your Car’s Value

trent — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:12:22 +0000

I would like to take a moment to introduce my newest creation, CarBounce.com. Car Bounce is a simple website, which aims to help keep you informed of your position financially with your vehicles. Far too often people go months, even years, without checking on their financial position with their vehicle. Car Bounce brings an end to that! How does it work?

Car Bounce provides a free breakdown of your vehicle with month by month estimates of it’s value, how far ahead/behind you are, and how much it would cost to purchase again at any point in time. On top of that it also provides interactive graphs and tools to help you visualize and decide when may be the best time to trade, pay off, or even hang on to your car.

But Wait, There’s More! In addition to the month by month breakdown and tools, you can also receive a summary email each month, export PDF’s, and Spreadsheets of the breakdown of each vehicle, bringing CarBounce right to your phone or desktop.

You no longer have any reason to forget about the value and financial position of you and your vehicles! Sign Up for free!

Update on Various Projects

trent — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:00:03 +0000

I thought I’d take a moment to post an update on various projects of mine. I’ll touch base on just a few.

jQuery Impromptu – Seems to be running pretty stable. Soon I will be moving the source over to Github with my other projects. Recent inquiries on this project mostly involve How To’s, and very few new feature requests.

jQuery Timepicker Addon – Currently under pretty steady development. And not just by me but others as well. I’m getting pull request regularly with some amazing code contributions! There is now a dev branch and a master branch for more stable downloads. Good news is localization seems to be fixed!

Gedit Clientside Plugin – I’ve been using this on a regular basis, however I’ve not noticed many others using it. It needs to be added to the Gedit Plugins page.

As always I’m open for suggestions, improvements, or fixes to any projects!

New to Github

trent — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:54:33 +0000

So I recently signed up on Github.. it seems to be the coolest thing to do right now. I’ve put some thought towards moving my projects over to it. However, other than version control I don’t see what the benefit is in it? I guess it will allow other people to view and commit too? The part I don’t favor is the fact that it will separate the downloads from the documentation, which I’m not a fan of. I would much rather the “one stop shop” like it is now.

What are your thoughts?

New Projects Section

trent — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:14:58 +0000

I’ve been studying how I could improve my blog to meet its main purposes lately, and I’ve create a new Projects section on the sidebar to help display various projects I have developed. I haven’t posted every single code snippet I’ve ever done, but it covers the larger projects which get the most of my attention(or the ones used the most on a daily basis). Never know, you might find something useful there too!

Update on Various Projects

How I’ve Nearly Doubled Website Traffic

trent — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:46:35 +0000

Over the course of the past month I’ve been doing a bit of work on my blog, everything from performance, to seo. I’ve noticed a pretty good jump in my visitors too. Nearly twice as many! I thought I’d share a few of the enhancements I’ve made. This is of course a WordPress blog, so of course all the changes are for WordPress.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
wp-cache
Sociable
Bird Feeder
All in One SEO Pack
Google XML Sitemaps
Resorted to a more CSS based design with fewer images to load
And a change of servers, so hopefully the site will load a bit faster

Most of these are simply plugins, so they are dirt simple changes. Google Sitemap Generator took a little thought in tweaking its configuration, and same goes with the others as well so they fit my needs. I also am trying to keep the site clean looking, and not become cluttered, which forces me to be careful selecting plugins which may harm the visual aspect of the site. I’ve also considered a translation plugin. Does anyone have any experience or suggestions on these? Or whether or not it would help? Hope these tips help you as well as it did me!

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Reading a Book

trent — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:52:44 +0000

Never thought I would say this since I’m long out of college, but I am in fact reading a book. (Hence why I’ve been quiet here on the blog the last few days) I purchased the The Smashing Book. So far it has been very educational. It is broken up into several really useful topics, although I’ve only made it though the first few. After just two chapters I felt like I had my money’s worth, now everything is just an extra bonus! Any who, I’ll be back to posting regularly in a day or two!

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I’m Now On Twitter!

trent — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:45:08 +0000

It took me long enough, but I’m now on Twitter! I actually had an account set up several months ago but never logged in. I decided it was time. My username is practicalweb. While I may not post every event in life, I will try to keep it up to date with the blog and anything else I decide is worth sharing but not worth an entire blog post. Anyway, Follow Me if you like!

New Hosting for TrentRichardson.com

trent — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:07:26 +0000

I’ve not done much posting lately here because I’ve been in the process of switching my hosting provider. Not that I was unsatisfied with my previous provider, actually quite the opposite. I wanted to get all of my sites together so they’re easier to manage. I now have this site with WebFaction. Why WebFaction?

So far I’ve heard and read nothing but good reviews. I also like their approach on setting up new sites. Within their custom control panel you can manage domains and applications. Then you can associate each Domain( or subdomain) with an Application to create a “Website”. They also provide many frameworks out of the box at the click of a mouse like Django, RoR, WordPress, etc.. In the time I’ve spent with them I’ve been impressed. If you’re thinking of a new host, I recommend WebFaction. (If you use these links to WebFaction I will atleast get a little credit if you sign up with them)

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To Share or to Buy

trent — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:39:05 +0000

Before sending hate mail please read this post entirely

Everyday on Digg or some other tech news site you see a headline about file sharing music and movies and what not. I can’t help but think that most everyone does it (or has done it), but how blatantly people try to defend doing it. I’ve tried to be more responsible in recent years and purchase my music, movies, and programs. But who are these people kidding by ripping off the producers and engineers of these products.

The fact is this: someone creates a product for sale; you obtain it without their permission and without paying for it. The best I can tell that is stealing. But why is it Ok all of a sudden that you can do it from the privacy and security from your home at your computer. Sure, perhaps the music/movie industry could do a better job protecting their products, but that’s not the point.

At the end of the day think about it like this: Some software programmer is trying to feed his family by writing software. If his product doesn’t sell because you’re stealing it from him that’s just as bad in my opinion as walking in a candy store, grabbing a bag of candy, and walking out. Some person makes their living by doing this work, and you have taken from them. It doesn’t make any difference if it’s a single person or a large corporation. Its the exact same.

I’m not bashing each individual person who has ever done this. Heck, most everyone has. If you can admit it’s wrong even though you do it, I can live with the fact that you’re aware and that you are fully responsible for your actions. I just don’t get the fact that people so openly defend doing it because they think there’s nothing wrong with it. Are you defending stealing?

New to Github