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Archive for June, 2007

UC Riverside Magazine Writes About ThemBid.com

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Elmer Thomas, co-founder of ThemBid.com and UCR Alumnus was featured in the "Class Act: Take Five" section of UCR Magazine. Take a look at the article here.

Create a Local Development Environment using XAMPP in Ubuntu/Linux

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Goals Create a local testing environment for ThemBid.com development in Ubuntu Use XAMPP Access from inside VMware for IE testing Access directories locally without the files needing to be under the root htdocs directory

Top Story at LinuxToday.com!

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Isaac's article about running PHP4 and PHP5 on Ubuntu simultaneously without CGI gets top billing at LinuxToday.com.

2 Part Reading + 8 Parts Execution = Entrepreneurial Success

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I love to read. I have two large bookshelves filled with books as well as boxes in the garage. In addition I frequent the library, subscribe to magazines and regularly surf the net. Those facts, plus one B.S. in CompE and a M.S. in EE = lots of reading. But ...

Top 9 Websites that Simplify Your life

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Internet has made our life simpler, but here are the websites that takes the term ‘simple life’ to a whole new level. 1. PriceGrabber.com Quit checking several websites to find the best deal online. Let PriceGrabber.com do the job for you including tax and shipping. You can also get real customers reviews on ...

LXer.com Posts Our Blog to the Front Page Once More

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

The article about my switch to Ubuntu gains more steam within the Linux community. I hope it is of great use to those considering "the switch".

Del.icio.us Thinks We are Popular

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

We came in at number three at the overall popular category at Del.icio.us and made it to the front page on the hotlist:

ThemBid.com Breaks the 20,000 Unique Visitor Mark

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

From the last week of March 2007 until today, ThemBid.com has received over 20,000 unique visits with over 130,000 pages viewed. We celebrate with a toast of coffee... and we now get back to work on "Operation Secret Sauce".

Ubuntu vs Linux

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

OK, I am guilty. Instead of just saying Linux, I have been using Ubuntu everywhere in my articles. It's as if I ran a global find and replace. I remember doing the same thing back in my Gentoo days...

We’ve Been Dugg!

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Our blog post "How to Access Your Ubuntu Remotely" made it to the front page of Digg.com with no DiggEffect through a 6K+ spike in traffic! Thanks to all who dugg our article, we hope it beneficial in some way to you.