This post is about a fun little script I wrote to tackle a real-world problem I constantly experience. I am a father to a very photogenic little 16 month old daughter. Between my wife’s camera and my cell phone, we take a lot of photos of her. Our daughter also has 3 grandparents that anxiously await new photos of her. The problem? Getting those photos to our parents in a timely fashion without requiring a lot of extra work (I hate “extra” work, don’t you?).

If you use Formstack forms to collect event registrations and you want to automatically tweet every time someone registers, Tweetbrite.com is a simple web app I built to accomplish this (you can also use Eventbrite). Recently, Formstack released support for WebHooks which allows their forms to immediately pass form data directly to another web app (such as Tweetbrite).

One of the easiest way to spruce up your blog post and add some interest is to use relevant photography that helps tell your story. There are some great places to find quality, low-cost stock photography (such as istockphoto.com). However, for the casual blogger, this can get expensive quickly. An amazing and never-ending resource of free photos can be found at a site I’m sure you’re familiar with: flickr.

This year we have developed a session voting application that lets anyone log-in via Twitter and submit & vote for other sessions. The point has been brought up that it will just devolve into a popularity contest where people can get their followers to juice up their session votes.

This afternoon, SnapNames sent an email to their customers alerting them that a (assuming former) employee had registered an account at SnapNames and had been bidding on various auctions. The result of this activity is that many people who were bidding on the same auctions either lost a domain they would have won or paid [...]

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