Number 7 : Adrienne Mancusi

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Just last week, we had the 6th kid born to the RustyBrick family, Gianna Mildred Bergamini, and today, I would like to welcome the 7th girl born to our family. Jimmy Mancusi had a girl at around 4pm today, with stats at 7 lbs 11 oz. He actually tweeted the 'event' via his Twitter handle...

RustyBrick Shwag Bags

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

The 2009 RustyBrick shwag (definition: branded promotional items) have arrived!

This year we bought a bunch of styles of bags. We purchased carry-on travel size wheeler bags from OGIO, a small duffle size roller bag from Sharper Image and two colors of messenger laptop bags from OGIO...

Welcoming Gianna To The RustyBrick Family

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

We would like to welcome the 6th baby girl born to the RustyBrick family! Steve Bergamini, from the RustyBrick Team, and his wife, had a beautiful baby girl Tuesday morning. The baby is named Gianna Mildred.

Both the baby, mother and even the father are all doing well...

Apple's iPhone Tech Talk - '09

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

The bus dropped me right outside the Marriot Marquis, the home of the 2009 iPhone Tech Talk.  Today should be interesting.  For me, these tech talks tend to be 20% learning new stuff, 40% working during listening, 10% getting answers for pressing questions and 30% meeting new people...

Find The Siddur on App Store Tree & Win

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

@Gartenberg tweeted a picture of the Apple Store being pretty busy and he snapped a picture of the iPhone App Holiday Trees on display in all the Apple Retail Stores. @BGribin noticed the picture and saw that our iPhone Siddur was one of the 100 icons on display on the tree...

iPhone Coming to Israel 12/10

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

My brother in Israel called me to ask me if I saw the YNet article (Google translate version) where they say the iPhone is coming to Israel in a "few days." I said, "that can't be true," I would have heard something about that...

iPhone Siddur 4.2 Submitted

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

We have just uploaded version 4.2 of the iPhone Siddur to Apple for their approval. We hope it gets approved swiftly, within two weeks - but we have very little control over that...

Use Google Page Speed Tool to Speed Up Your Site

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

With the vast majority of internet users surfing on high speed broadband connections (94% of active internet users in the USA), should we, as website owners and developers, even bother optimizing and shrinking our code, content, and resources? Yes! To stay ahead of your competitors, you want to have lightning quick...

Spoke at PubCon 2009

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last week, I was in Las Vegas at the wonderful PubCon conference, where a bunch of webmasters, SEOs and affiliate venture to network and learn...

Google Caffeine Interviews

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Yesterday, I was interviewed, back to back, by two publications on the Google Caffeine index. In short, Google is working on a new index (database) to discover, store and process their data. They have been testing this index on a Sandbox domain, at www2.sandbox.google.com until yesterday morning...

Google Releases Closure, Tools that Made Gmail, Docs, Maps

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Google has just released what appears to be their entire library of JavaScript packages that they've used across all of their web applications (Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs) to keep a common look and feel and provide a consistant cross-browser experience...

Using Apple Safari is Like Going On a Real Safari

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

[Photo Credit: Safari Sucks]

My girlfriend and I love our Apple Macbooks. We're Mac fans. While most of my work gets done on Windows machines, most of my "fun" is on my Mac. Why? Because Apple software is excellent...

Take Aways: The State of Contextual Advertising

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This morning, as some of you know, I was on a panel named The State of Contextual Advertising: USA vs. Global Trends, Strategic Overview and Emerging Trends...

Hacking Polldaddy - Faking the Votes and Exploiting Poll Daddy

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

As many of you know, RustyBrick had a Halloween contest and a PollDaddy poll was set up in order to vote for the winner. It was going to be a tough race. First of all, Mabe had an outstanding satyr costume. Both Jimmy and Joe submitted adorable shots of their children all dressed up...

Halloween Contest at RustyBrick

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Image credit: TwisterMc on flickr

A few of us on the RustyBrick team dressed up for Halloween, which is tomorrow. We figured, we run a small contest. Vote below for your favorite Halloween costume and the winner will get a $50 iTunes gift card.

Note, we did allow kids to be added to this bunch...

RustyBrick Tweet Tweet

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Image credit: RustyBrick on flickr

Twitter has been the craze over the last year or two. Yes, of course, RustyBrick is on Twitter @rustybrick, we have been since Mar 11, 2007. We have also had an impersonator, where someone was pretending to be us...

Prototype JS vs jQuery - A Comparison

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

var $j = jQuery.noConflict();

Prototype vs jQueryBefore I joined RustyBrick I had been coding basic JavaScript functionality into websites mostly "by hand", in other words, without using a well defined third party package...

MiFi Router

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Image credit: RustyBrick on flickr

Barry recently ordered the Verizon Wireless MiFi wireless router and mobile broadband device. In fact, he documented the first MiFi speed tests in Suffern, New York...

Tech Savvy Tech Support

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Image credit: EideMontana on flickr

With the popularity of our iPhone Apps and having to trouble shoot issues with client web sites and emails, we on occasion need to offer tech support, on some level. Honestly, no one in our company, at least that I know of, enjoys the tech support side of the business...