Patrick Coombe
Facebook has a review system like many other modern web platforms: you can log in to your account, click on some stars, and post a custom written review for the world to see. But Facebook's review system is flawed. Using a very simple loophole, any competitor, angry customer, or coward can post a review and cause the review median [...]
LinkedIn is all sorts of messed up & backwards. Last week Darren Nix wrote about "the absurdity of LinkedIn" which basically pointed out how logged out users have more benefits than signed-in users. The thread got hundreds of comments on Hacker News from folks talking about how terrible it is as a platform and social network. Anyway, if you [...]
or does it need one? In addition to being a dad & husband, I am also our households network administrator. Like many houses, we have a ton of devices: 4 smart phones 2 tables with wifi and 4g plans 2 laptops 2 PC's 4 monitors 3 TV's 1 modem 2 routers Apple TV Multiple DVR boxes 1 Wii multiple [...]
I dropped the hammer and committed to learning Photoshop so I launched 30images30days.com. Check it out!
I've been really happy with the progress I've been making in Photoshop. I think I can definitely say I am beyond beginner level and have moved to become an amateur. I've learned all about layers, layer masks (that really had me confused for a while), transformations, tools, shapes, layer properties and so much more. I also know there are [...]
Oh man, one place you know you don't mess around on is Reddit. The place is full of insane crazy good hackers and programmers that investigate every single comment and upvote that was left. Anyhow, so this thread was created by someone affiliated with this site which is some kind of eCommerce platform. A self promoted post just wasn't [...]
My name is Patrick and I have been programming for over 20 years. In the past 10 years, I've mainly worked on the management side so mainly most of my coding revolves around debugging and overseeing other projects. That said, I've been hearing so many awesome things about learning Rails, I thought I'd give it a try. I started [...]
Very much excited to be speaking at what I consider one of the largest industry conferences in the world. Affiliate Summit, the premier affiliate marketing conference, was founded by Missy Ward and Shawn Collins in 2003 for the purpose of providing educational sessions on the latest industry issues and fostering a productive networking environment for affiliate marketers. The great thing [...]
Welcome everyone to the personal blog of Patrick Coombe. I am definitely open to contributions, but for god's sakes don't send me garbage. If you'd like me to interview you or would like to interview me, I am definitely open to that. Please only submit topics to me that you think people will want to read, and I will [...]
I really love Google+, if even half of my non-techie friends were on G+, I'd delete my Facebook account forever. There are a few things on my wish list however that I feel needs to be improved before G+ is where it needs to be: 1. Speed - It is slow. I use a badass Intel i7 SSD/64G [...]
