All posts by Jeff Reifman

Jeff is a technology consultant based in the Pacific Northwest.

Open Source Mailing List Application for Mailgun’s PHP SDK

If you’re a developer looking for a simple streamlined mailing list service – or a super scalable one, check out my tutorial at Mailgun’s blog: Open Source Mailing List Applet Using the Mailgun PHP SDK. This project is also written...

/ September 5, 2013

How to Get Started Building a Web Site

There are a number of services available now that make building and maintaining an attractive, effective web site easy and fun. But whether you’re building a basic web site, blog or advanced web application, there are a broad number of...

/ August 23, 2013

How to Find Cells That Contain Text in Excel

You can use a formula like this to indicate cells that contain text in Excel. Any cell that contains the strings tips, help or support will show up as true, otherwise they will be false: =OR(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("tips",D2)),ISNUMBER(SEARCH("help",D2)),ISNUMBER(SEARCH("support",D2)))

/ August 11, 2013

How to Build Your Own Web Site Monitoring App with Notifications for iOS and Android

If you run a web site or blog of any importance to you or your business, it’s important to have a monitoring service to ensure that it’s always running, especially if you have a sophisticated service running background tasks. A...

/ August 8, 2013

How to Use Zillow Neighborhood Maps and HTML5 Geolocation

Purchase a pre-installed image of this tutorial as a Digital Ocean droplet for just $15. Back in 2008, Zillow released boundary shape files to more than 7,000 U.S. neighborhoods via a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license. Zillow did so to encourage innovation...

/ August 6, 2013

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/ July 30, 2013

Esquire’s Rens Lieman Asks You to Hack His Data

Rens Lieman, a contributing editor at Esquire magazine (Dutch edition), is launching a privacy experiment asking hackers to discover all the data they can gather about him: [blockquote]For Esquire, I wanted to write a story about online privacy and the...

/ July 12, 2013