hayk
I'm an entrepreneur who loves software and marketing. Read some articles if you're interested about both.
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by hayk | Mar 15, 2019 | reviews
What are the best gaming earbuds in 2019? I reviewed all the best models available for sale and I wrote up some quick reviews. If you want high quality sound, and the convenience of headphones that fit in your pockets, you’ll want to read my reviews of these...
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by hayk | Dec 6, 2018 | marketing hacks
.com is still the most popular TLD in 2018. New TLDs like .xyz and .club and .pro are becoming more popular according to alexa rankings. Despite the growth, .net .org and other traditionally “2nd tier” domain extensions are still more than two times as...
by hayk | Nov 27, 2018 | featured, marketing hacks
There are many new TOP level domain names being released to the public every month. I have compiled a spreadsheet of TLD prices on google docs. Cheapest Prices on November 28 2018 I sampled the most inexpensive domain extensions available on 11/28/18 and organized...
by hayk | Nov 14, 2018 | travel
Like portable toilets, toilet paper (or toilet tissue if you prefer), is rarely the main topic of discussion at formal dinner parties. However, it’s amazing how often we get some variation of the questions, “When was toilet paper invented?”,...
by hayk | May 6, 2018 | marketing hacks
Pingbacks are a way for wordpress to automatically notify other websites whenever you link to them, in order to get them to link back to you. Most of the time, pingbacks and trackbacks need to be approved manually, however, some websites have pingbacks and trackbacks...
by hayk | Jul 19, 2017 | featured, marketing hacks
2 Years ago I wrote a popular article called “What are the Cheapest new Top Level .domains?” In the last few years, the number of new top level domains has grown dramatically, and most of them have entered ‘general availability. This means that any...
by hayk | Jun 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Many people say Dogs are man’s best friend but are they really more loyal? Is your ? loyal? Cat lovers will argue that their cats are very loyal. However, are they really loyal or just using their owners for their own selfish needs? Cats commonly carry the...
by hayk | Jun 15, 2017 | travel
There are so many places in the world to see, that I often wonder what the best vacation destinations are for tropical weather ? . Here are a few that I found online, but I’d like to hear from the comments section about which destinations everyone loves. 1)...
by hayk | Sep 5, 2016 | featured, software development
I ran into this error when I was uploading a new theme to my blog. The issue is that the default memory limit for uploads is 2 MB when you use the 1 click wordpress install from digital ocean. It’s really easy to increase it to something reasonable like 8 MB....
by hayk | Aug 9, 2016 | software development
I’ve recently re-activated my personal blog on a wordpress site. In late 2016 there was some kind of issue with the node.js cms-on-sails app, and it stopped the site from loading. For a few months I just redirected it to my twitter account, but now I’ve...
by hayk | Mar 1, 2015 | software development
If you’ve been following the JavaScript community during the past few years, you probably noticed a cornucopia of new libraries and frameworks. There’s an NPM package for almost everything you can imagine. Growth is awesome, but if you’ve examined...
by hayk | Jan 10, 2015 | software development
I have a chrome app that’s up to ~1000 weekly users, and i’m not sure if or how to monetize it. see https://www.extempengine.com The app is called Extemp Engine, and it’s a specially designed news search engine for students participating in one kind...
by hayk | Jun 19, 2014 | marketing hacks
Wufoo is a great tool for easily building forms, but in many cases it’s more restrictive than managing your own websites and forms. On Wufoo, you can’t embed any of your own javascript. Why is this important? No google analytics No visual web optimizer or...
by hayk | May 25, 2014 | software development
If you pull the latest version of CMS on Sails you might notice two prominent new features: Comment Threads Hidden Pages Both are essential to a great content management system. Comment Threads Now you can “reply” to other user’s comments. Your new...
by hayk | May 16, 2014 | featured, software development
If you’re writing blog articles with, you might have noticed that images don’t look quite-right sometimes. The solution is to use the “img-responsive” class of twitter bootstrap (included in CMS on Sails by default). responsive design is a way...
by hayk | May 15, 2014 | featured, software development
I recently added page management capabilities to this site (cms on sails), making it a fledgeling CMS. I used the same editor that is used by the Ghost blogging platform. You can find the source code on github. Part of my quest to write a Sails.js based CMS was to...
by hayk | May 6, 2014 | software development
When I began learning Ruby on Rails two years ago, I actively avoided tests, and the topic of testing altogether. I was eager to see my code ‘do stuff’, and skipped tests, contrary to the suggestions proposed in the holy grail of rails books —...
by hayk | May 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve just published my first sails.js production app — this blog! It has the very basics: markdown editor static pages comments admin account There are still a few things I need to implement in order to make it a real CMS content management system: RSS...
by hayk | May 4, 2014 | software development
I recently ran in circles trying to figure out why my .sort call wasn’t behaving correctly. Remember, “Sails.js is still in beta”, so it’s expected to have problems The specific issue that bit me has to do with how the local disk database...
by hayk | May 1, 2014 | software development
I’ve been tweaking the buttons, shapes and styles of these static pages. However at that point you’re following the trail down a rabbit hole. Set small, concrete, specific goals for your UI changes.
by hayk | Apr 28, 2014 | software development
After a few videos and a couple of tries, I’ve gotten user authentication working with this blog. For a brand new framework, it was much easier than I would have thought. Compared to Rails, the process was only slightly more difficult. The nice thing about...
by hayk | Apr 27, 2014 | software development
I started trying out a fledgeling node.js based MVC framework — sails.js It’s going well so far, and I’ve got some basics working, as you can tell. Once i’ve finished a decent MVP, i’ll post it on github and write a step by step...
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