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October 18, 2014 by Jonathan Whiting 15 comments

How to setup multiple sites hosted on your Mac with OSX 10.8 + (MAMP Part 5)

Welcome to part 5 of the MAMP tutorial. In this post we will go over setting up friendly URLs on your Mac server. We will be adding a new site called http://mysite.localhost You will also learn how to run multiple domain sites on your local server. Having Virtual Hosts enabled is really useful when developing sites on…

September 28, 2014 by Jonathan Whiting 0 comments

We need to talk about the impact of Likes

Have you ever experienced information overload? Maybe I’m alone in this, but I love discovering new things. And for me learning from blogs, forums, or videos is an easy way to do it. With all that input I am influenced by the thoughts and ideas of the content. Which is part of the joy of…

February 16, 2014 by Jonathan Whiting 0 comments

Facebook is broken

Facebook is broken. The site isn’t down, you can still login to your account. The problem is with its business model. Have you noticed how your newsfeed is getting more filtered? When you post something to your Facebook wall, it is only seen by a few of your friends. To prevent people’s walls from being…

July 28, 2013 by Jonathan Whiting 0 comments

How to turn display_errors to on in php.ini file

This is a quick tutorial that will walk you through turning display errors on in your php.ini file.

May 29, 2013 by Jonathan Whiting 0 comments

You have everything you need to be successful

In part 1 of this series I posed the question, are you building something bigger than yourself? “A company needs a core vision, a rally cry, that everyone on staff can come behind.” Today, I want to focus on the second half of the question, “What does it mean to actually believe that you have everything…

May 15, 2013 by Jonathan Whiting 0 comments

Achieve great things

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein Struck by the response I received from last weeks post, Why Motivated People are Waaay More Productive, I asked myself this question, “What does it mean to actually believe that you have everything you need to build…

May 11, 2013 by Jonathan Whiting 36 comments

How to paint your scooter using spray paint at home

This tutorial will walk you through the steps to repaint your scooter (or any vehicle) using spray cans at home. This is what my scooter looks like after respraying it. I’m not a professional, this is my first time working with most of this stuff. If I can do it so can you.

May 8, 2013 by Jonathan Whiting 0 comments

Why motivated people are waaaaay more productive

Good entrepreneurs intentionally surround themselves with people and activities that motivate them. We know that to win we need to stick with it when the going get’s tough. For some entrepreneurs that means getting good coaches and for others it’s engaging in the stuff that inspired them to get into their line of business in the…

May 3, 2013 by Jonathan Whiting 0 comments

Step by step strategy on how to grow your blog’s traffic

This is a graph of Machiine.com’s web traffic over the last 12 months (April 2012 – April 2013). You will notice that while the number’s aren’t huge, they show steady growth. I’ve posted on 3 blogs over the last 4 years and noticed some similarities between all of them. Here is a summary of what…

May 2, 2013 by Jonathan Whiting 0 comments

Islands are the fastest way to kill your startup – how to align your team

There’s a reason rockets are stored in silos. Working on stuff in silos kill startups. I laugh at how we ran things when we first started our company. Fired up about every new idea we had we tried to do them all… independently. I was especially bad for this. Focusing on the next great idea,…