Monthly Archive for December, 2007

About:HanMeta

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Josh Kim
on December 31, 2007
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This post is way over due. Got it in just before midnight, w00t.

HanMeta, LLC: What the heck are you talking about?

I guess not everyone’s is on the down low.

It’s been about a year since I’ve had a dream of starting a web application company. While I’m not going to go into detail as to the why right now, I can finally cross that off the list. Well… I guess I won’t really have one until the actual service is out in the open.

Hopefully, I’ll find the time to blog as I manage/develop it. I love reading blogs like The Scariest Fun : notes from a web startup, where companies go into great detail about the pains and joys of starting, not just any company but, a web application company. Heck, they do Rails, too!

Formation of the LLC

Many weeks and months of research came down to picking The Corporation Company to help me make the LLC. Hooray for Delaware, and lax laws towards corporations. I went with the most expensive plan, because the $100 price difference isn’t all that much. Registered Agent service is going to be $219 a year, and just by the additional 6 months makes up for that cost. Plus, all the extra books I received makes it all worthwhile.

Nolo Books 1

Nolo Books 2

It’s a good thing, too, because nolo.com has been a site I frequented for months trying to figure things out. But as with The Corporation Company, I’ll keep you updated with any good or bad reviews.

Membership Certificate

Hmm. I guess I’ll hand these out when HanMeta becomes a multi-member LLC.

Emboss THIS

Embosser? Hah. Time to just start randomly embossing things…

I’m glad all of this has been taken care of. At least, on paper. I sent in the EIN information recently; I think that ends most of the paperwork. For some reason, this business stuff is kinda fun. Maybe I won’t be saying that when taxes are due in 2007.

What Who When?

So a little bit more about the actual company.

Currently, it’s 5 people, all friends of mine. Lot of groundwork has been placed, and really, it’s time to code. I might end up coding less than I would like, but I do like the management aspect of web application development, anyway.

Well. Here’s to an interesting journey in ‘08.

WordPress Related Fun: TextMate Blogging Bundle’s Time Zone Bug and UltimateTagWarrior

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Josh Kim
on December 31, 2007
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REMINDER TO SELF: Times are finally set to the correct Central Standard Time.

This is more of a summary post on what I’ve been doing with this Wordpress installation.

Tags Galore

I’ve finally taken some time with Wordpress, and it seems like Ultimate Tag Warrior is no more. Luckily, Wordpress has nice importers from people who used other tagging plugins in the past.

There are still a few bugs I have to work out with the code I changed when I did use UTW.

TextMate Time Zone Blogging Bundle Issue

I noticed this a while back, but never really looked into it. After poking around the int3rw3bz0rz, it seems like there was an actual bug with the timestamps.

Sidenote: Blogging Bundle. Holy crap, get some nested comments… or a forum… or SOMETHING ELSE. This is seriously why I think blog comments are broken, but that’s another project idea for another day.

Regardless, this is what you want. From the MacroMates wiki:

Specifying Date Created

There has been a few problems related to correct dates. This comes from the fact that the dateCreated argument (in the XML-RPC protocol) has no time zone info, and until WordPress 2.2 it was interpreted mostly as server time.

Starting with WordPress 2.2 this field is GMT and dates should be offset correctly.

Unfortunately WordPress 2.2.1 introduced a Z in the date format which breaks Ruby 1.8.2’s XML-RPC parser — so if you use WordPress 2.2.1 then you need to update your installed Ruby version. If you have MacPorts installed then you can run sudo port install ruby and update your PATH. See RubyVersionIssues for help with that.

Even more unfortunately, the next version of WordPress will revert its date handling to before 2.2 and so, after that release, dates will again use the wrong offset.

Just need to be really careful and just set the timestamp in the “Date” field by adding the appropriate amount of offset. For this post, I would have to add 6 hours to the hour every time I update to make sure I’m not adding a 6 hour offset.

Wordpress 2.3.2

Updated. Feels good to be back in the blogging game.

Starting to use… Facebook Apps

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Josh Kim
on December 21, 2007
in Web Applications
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For the longest time, I had a small boycott against Facebook Applications. This probably came from the fact that I didn’t see the point of the petting of strange furry creatures and throwing of small woodland creatures that occurred.

And no, I don’t want to join your Ninja army. Although, Ninjas >> Pirates. Moving On.

Then I started to poke around a bit yesterday. (No, poking wasn’t used as a pun. Who would make such a dumb pun. Goodness.) Who Has The Biggest Brain? had the makings of a fun little timewaster, as did Addicted to Scrubs.

But at the end of they day, they’re just another way to satiate the casual gamer in me. Regardless of it was at facebook or at popcan, I would have played anyway.

But what’s more important here is that it’s leveraging the social… cough*graph*cough. But why not do something more… useful with it, rather than figuring out the fact that your friend has the brain size equivalent to a monkey?

Right, so what was the point of this post? Just pointing out the fact that you might see a few more random apps in my news feed.

Test

Published
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Josh Kim
on December 19, 2007
in Asides
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I’m testing the timestamp error that the TextMate bundle is giving me.

IE8 Passes ACID2

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Josh Kim
on December 19, 2007
in Web Development
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Oh. Em. Gee.

I’m so happy I could cry. Okay, maybe not. I’m not that nerdy.

But I feel as though some sanity has been restored to the world. hopeful sigh.