Kyle Ritter

Opera released version 3.0 of their mini mobile browser today. I’m a-gonna have to download it. I’ve always been an advocate of developing sites that were mobile friendly (provided they are sites that a mobile user would find useful.)

They are of course dropping the “web 2.0″ buzzwords, but have some added nifty features such as secure connections, which makes me little less hesitant to use my Razr to check my bank account (that is, if my bank had a mobile friendly website…which they don’t.)
Perhaps this latest version of Opera will do for the mobile web what Netscape did for the standard web: create a positive feedback loop where more users creates more demand which creates more sites which creates more users.

Anyway, here is the link.

We have been getting bad about adding new products to TheBuilderStore.com…bad in the way that we don’t add enough. Luckily, Frank has been better about sending me photos, most recently he sent me a photo of a diamond shaped gable vent. So now I have added diamond vents to our website. I assume we will get more sales as a result, since we sold these to people when they called and asked for them as a custom shape, so we should pick up people querying the search engines now. Which will be nice, as business has slowed up a bit.

Sometimes, I think I waste too much time trying writing custom scripts to perform functions similar to existing open source ones. Part of my problem in that regards is that I’m a control freak: there is always some special set of features that aren’t included in available packages, and I always convince myself that it would be easier to write it from scratch then hack apart an existing number.

Case in point: I was helping my friends at Flying Rhinoceros figure out what to do about integrating a live help into their flash heavy sites. Not having the time for that sort of undertaking, we began looking for available solutions. While none where specifically meeting our needs, we did find one that we could modify quite easily at Darren’s Script Archive. For easily modded flash/php type things, that place is the best. And even better, incredibly cheap!