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diamondsea

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About diamondsea

Developer and Entrepreneur, enjoy solving problems people didn't even know they had with solutions easier than the ever expected. Notable accomplishments: Created the Simple Template System for osCommerce (the most popular template addon, ranked in top 5 of all contributions), worked with Adobe to fix SQL-Injection bug in all their Dreamweaver-generated code resulting in the Dreamweaver 8.0.2 release, have survived having two kids and am awaiting a third, and I am the world's leading authority on "creating a religion" and "which religion is right" (ranked #1 on Google).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #2297539

    You might also want to offer an "I AM" version of this as well.

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    Comment #2297452

    I think the whole method that these sites use to deliver content is completely backwards, at least from the user perspective. The goal of going to a web site is ultimately to get t…

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    Comment #2250976

    They can sell other places, but not promote those other places within the app. They could offer their subscription on their web site and collect 100%. Their app would then be requi…

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    Comment #2250914

    I've been trying to figure out a reason other than greed for this move, and I think you nailed it: It's a barrier to entry for competing media distribution platforms. Apple makes m…

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    Comment #2249058

    It's more for content you don't control that you want to include in a site. For example, if you want to show the CNN feed within a secure portal page, it will give you the mixed-co…

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    Comment #2249051

    Correct, it's for showing off-site content on your own secure pages, such as a portal site showing a photo-of-the-day from another site or an RSS feed containing images. Yes, you c…

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    Comment #2210425

    I set it up as an RSS feed and read it on my iPhone in idle times in Google Reader. I've also found that I seem to need at least one distraction, so if I play some good music (I se…

  8. story
    Is this site worth developing / promoting or too niche?

    I was tired of running into problems with encrypted pages not being able to show off-site content without giving IE Mixed Content warnings, so I threw this site together in few hou…