Eric Mann's Blog

  • Vagrant and Windows

    I often brag about the fact that I’ve dumped heavy tools like XAMPP in favor of Vagrant. I’m quite proud of this accomplishment, and I urge every other developer I meet to look into Vagrant.

  • In-Market Analogs

    Entrepreneurship is innovation – if you can only describe your business in terms of another, you’re not innovating.

  • Market Research can be Misleading

    Market research conducted against vaporware is rarely, if ever, actionable and more informative than a hunch.

  • Transparent Monetization

    I started blogging daily on this domain to build a platform. To build a place where my voice – professional and creative – could reach the world. I want to begin monetizing this platform, and I need your help and feedback to make it work.

  • By The Numbers

    According to the analytics, I had only 9,000 repeat visitors last year (which was 17% of my traffic). So far this year I’ve had 17,000 repeat visitors. While this is only 19% of my traffic, it still represents a nearly 100% increase over the entirety of 2013!

  • Democratizing SSL Certificates

    I have an easier time trusting individuals and corporations I personally know than large companies with whom my only relationship is as a certificate vendor. I’m also a huge proponent of democratizing both publishing on the Internet and the Internet itself.

  • “Sold Out”

    Supply and demand. It’s one of the most important principles in economics. Consequently, it’s also of massive importance to marketing.

  • WordPress Core Proposal: Comment Remastering

    Post-publication comments are also a form of collaboration, and they are in drastic need of some refactoring and re-imagining.

  • Proper Code Styling

    I look at a lot of code. In my job, recreationally on weekends. Everywhere I see people using a specific coding style and, upon pushback, defend it in the sake of brevity. I’m talking about braceless one-line conditionals.

  • Quality Traffic

    If you’re reading this, you’re probably in my target reader group. If you have left a comment previously, you’re definitely in that group. So, unscientifically, what prompts you to leave a comment and engage in the conversation?