Thoughts About Relocating
It isn’t for everybody but my wife and I decided that it was probably for us several months ago.
Recent Posts
SEO Early On, Part 3
On a slightly more technical note than my previous 2 posts (Part 1 and Part 2) on SEO, page speed is quite important. There are some great tools for checkin...
Beginning Erlang
Erlang is my first experience with a strongly functional language. I say strongly functional because I’ve gotten to see a bit of functional programming in Sc...
SEO Early On, Part 2
Part 1 was a little bit sparse on actual, actionable advice so I thought I’d start this post out with some fairly simple tips that can do wonders for your ra...
SEO Early On, Part 1
While starting a business, there are many things one must think of, from permitting to supply chain management; however, an oft overlooked thing is SEO!
Houston’s Got More Startups!
My perception of the startup culture in Houston has been limited to one or two different companies that aren’t doing anything interesting until recently. Af...
Offerpop - The Worst Voting App on Facebook
If you’ve had any experience with trying to get votes for an entry on Offerpop, you know just how terrible it is. If you haven’t, I hope that you never do. ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
This Thanksgiving I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about what I’m grateful for!
Managing Videoconferencing Devices
I’ve spent the last couple of months building an interface to replace Lifesize (and Avaya’s) video conference management software because their software reli...
Rolling Ruby on Rails
Last week I wrote about Startup Weekend and my experience starting PermitMe.
Startup Weekend
A little over a week ago I participated in Startup Weekend Houston.
Houston Startup Weekend
This weekend I’m planning to attend Startup Weekend Houston. It will be my first and I’m quite excited about it.
Starting My Blog
I’m Chris MacNaughton, a developer born and reaised in Houston, TX. I’ve been programming things for years but started on the hardware side of computers, bu...