Adam Howitt's Blog

WalkJogRun TV Interview

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:42:00 -0400

I'm thrilled to announce that I recorded a TV interview in New York last weekend for Better TV and a sneak peak has appeared on YouTube. I was interviewed by Ereka Vetrini who you may remember from season 1 of the Apprentice.

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No more taboo

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:54:00 -0400

Did you ever play the boardgame taboo? You try to get your partner to say the word on the card without actually mentioning the word. Google AdWords is finally breaking the seal on trademarks. I just got off a call with a member of the Google AdW...

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4 hours to the unthinkable

Fri, 08 May 2009 15:27:00 -0400

I'm finally caving in and buying a mac 4 hours from now. It won't be a clean switch I know, even running bootcamp or parallels. How do I know? I ran Ubuntu linux for 2 years and came back to Windows for the sheer range of business apps targeting W...

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WalkJogRun iPhone Application v1 is live!

Wed, 06 May 2009 01:41:00 -0400

After over 200 hours of development, sweat, tears and late nights after work, Apple finally approved our app. It's available in the App Store today and I'd love to hear your feedback. Under the hood it connects to WalkJogRun.net built on ColdFu...

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Google Chrome Bookmark Checker

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:51:00 -0400

I've been using Google Chrome since shortly after the release and I've been hooked. It's a rare day when I need to dip into Internet Explorer or Firefox. I use Firefox when I need to use some of the browser plugins like LiveHTTPHeaders, Web Dev...

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BlogCFC 5.9.2.002 Live and Kicking

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:15:00 -0400

I've finally upgraded WebDevRef to use BlogCFC 5.9.2.002 so hopefully any commenters or readers who have suffered from the spammers attacking my blog lately will have an extra line of defense. This was quite painful as a move because I've skipped ...

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Turn your sales and lead forms into Goldmines

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:33:00 -0400

A recent form analytics project with Auto-Transporter made me into a rockstar with their CEO and drastically increased the number of leads they get. Read "Double your conversion rate quadruple your sales" for more details.

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Three finds

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:22:05 -0400

I was waiting for a server to reboot earlier today and grabbed my copy of CF8 WACK Volume 2 to read Chapter 31 on improving performance and was glad to find two new tips. CFCache helps you serve popular pages faster and blockfactor on queries i...

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Seth Godin says my seminar is a lost cause

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:44:36 -0400

Well, close. Jeff just sent me an article from Seth's blog pointing out that marketing evolution is much harder than marketing gravity because gravity is something people already believe in.I'm banking on people believing that evolving your web...

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Website Evolution Seminar

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:39:14 -0400

Up the expertise you bring to the table. One-day intensive covers designing for search engine results, split testing of Web pages, using Analytics to arrive at a best design. Google tools provide you with a slam-dunk answers to every client design re...

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CFHttp Connection Failure on IIS compressed content

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:29:01 -0400

I was having trouble calling CFHTTP against one of my CF Servers with a cfhttp connection failure. It has been causing my scheduled tasks to fail in a peculiar way too. Whenever you manually click to execute a scheduled task it would repo...

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Paid vs free archives

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:54:22 -0400

Around a month ago I made the controversial move to make articles over 90 days old available for a $5 fee and boy has it whipped up a storm in several tea cups. I'm curious to start a discussion about the concept to get a read from the people w...

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TinyMCE ColdFusion Image Browser

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:58:05 -0400

I love tinyMCE but because I use ColdFusion I've not been able to use the built image browser. The API provides the hooks required to roll your own so I figured someone else might have done the heavy lifting and sure enough, I found a CF based ...

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Clickbank vs. Google AdWords Discrepancies

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:00:43 -0400

A client recently contacted me to ask why Google AdWords was reporting conversions but the clickbank affiliate account the Google AdWords ad linked to showed zero conversions. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. That incl...

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Back from the Dead with Eclipse

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:50:48 -0400

This Halloween inspired post explains how to bring a file back from the dead if you've ever looked at it in eclipse.I have been playing with blueprintcss and pulled down source this morning. It's genius to a developer with my *ahem* design skil...

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