How to win a hackathon

Having participated in over a dozen hackathons and winning prizes in many of them I always walk away with a feeling of satisfaction. Whether it’s from meeting new people, discovering new development methods and apps, having an epiphany with that new idea or just...

Setup PHP and Apache on Mac OSX

PHP and apache are included on Mac OSX but there are a few things you need to set it up. This setup is also needed after upgrading to Yosemite, for some reason the update removed all these config settings. EDIT HTTPD.CONF AND PHP.INI edit httpd.conf $ sudo vim...

MailHops API is Secure

MailHops API just got a little more secure with HTTPS! It’s a three step process but pretty simple. Heres how to update Thunderbird and Postbox. Download the root certificate from CACert. Install the root certificate to Thunderbird or Postbox Change MailHops...

MailHops API is back online! Thank you SendGrid

Thank you to Nick and Sendgrid for sponsoring hosting for the MailHops API. With over 200K hits a day MailHops API handles a lot of traffic and although the packets are small it needed help, so a big THANK YOU to SendGrid for bringing MailHops back online. MailHops...

#hack4colorado 2014

It was another great hack weekend at Galvanize in Denver. Hack4Colorado was Colorado’s civic hackday in a nationwide event, http://hackforchange.org. We received a “Best in show” and Second place prize telling us there is confidence in our solution...