I didn’t get a chance to go to WWDC so I haven’t had any real life experience with the iPhone 3G.  I would assume that it is just like the iPhone I have now with faster internet access and basic GPS.  As far as the iPhone 2.0 software it’ll run on both models.  I haven’t used that either, but I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the new iPhone running the new software.

I think the app store is a great idea and I like that Apple restricts some access to the system in order to keep stability within the iPhone system.  I had a Palm Treo 650 that let you install whatever you want and the phone because slow and would restart on my face in the middle of a call.  I eventually restored it to default and I still had some issues with it.

As far as the price is concerned, you don’t really save any money.  It’s a pay now or pay later type deal.  Last year you paid up front and this year you pay over the contract life.  I think if you are like me I only really expect to keep the phone a year until the next model comes out next year.  In this case I break even if I get the 3G data and 200 text messages to make it equivalent to the existing model. Read the rest of this entry »

Well after a few hiccups, the revision to this site is up and running.  It has been completely revamped front end to back end with some additions and subtractions throughout.  This is the first code run for the new look and feel which is now running on Wordpress.  I’m hoping I’ll have some time in the near future to do some code cleanup and fine tune some of the plug-ins I’m using. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m currently in the process of dividing this site into two pieces. First, this domain (www.brandonquintana.com) will continue to be my own personal site. I’ve decided to divide my business into it’s own site Brandon Quintana Consulting (www.brandonquintanaconsulting.com). Business has been going pretty well and I think it’s time that it became its own entity. For business purposes, it always was, but this site was a mixture of personal info and business info. Read the rest of this entry »

Viddler a new video service looking to take on video services like YouTube has launched today. The service allows you to store pretty large videos up to 500MB. Also there are timed tags and time comments which allow you to create bookmarks within a video to share at a certain point within a clip. Another nice feature is the ability to record through a webcam. Read the rest of this entry »

Before you begin a web project it’s important to research marketing and advertising strategies in the market you are looking to build your web application. Different market sectors have very different competitors and this will make a difference when you first start out. A lot of the time if there’s heavy competition you will have to market your product much better and most of the time pay more for advertising so your product is seen. It’s the typical supply and demand market. Read the rest of this entry »

Search engine optimization is an important step in creating a web application. High ranking organic or natural listings in Google, Yahoo, MSN will drive traffic to a website. By researching keywords and implementing them into your site a little effort can go a long way. If you have the time do the research. The two biggest points of search engine optimization are content and links. If you search for search engine optimization in your favorite search engine, I can bet that the majority of the articles will say that content is the most important part of search engine optimization followed by good linking development. Read the rest of this entry »

I can’t stress enough the importance of clean code. It may take more time initially to carefully plan a web architecture, document, and comment code, but it’s always worth the initial planning in order to save a huge headache later. I don’t know how many projects that I have acquired that were so poorly coded that I had to start the project from scratch to work on it. Now I’m definitely not the best coder in the world, but I like to use best practices if I or someone else needs to come back to the project later for updates or changes. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve decided to create multiple parts on my tips for creating a successful web application. This is the first part of the series: design. I think this part of the project is often overlooked and it is probably one of the most important parts of a project. Read the rest of this entry »

Silicon.com has a Web 2.0 cheat sheet for those interested in learning the basic concept of Web 2.0. Many people have heard of it and it’s hard to pinpoint an exact definition for the term. It is a broad generalization of a number of things. Read the rest of this entry »

PHP Hacks has a tutorial using the PEAR SOAP module of PHP to pull data for use on your site. There are many other ways of doing similar things a lot of which deal with RSS feeds since they have become so popular, but this tutorial does a pretty good job of explaining how to use SOAP with Google’s web services. Read the rest of this entry »