After launching the AllDevJobs.com Blog, I decided it would be a heck of a lot more fun to give away a copy of Things for Mac to 5 lucky email subscribers. To read the details and enter the contest, please visit the new AllDevJobs.com Blog.

Last week, I had the opportunity to meet Gary Vaynerchuk at a book signing/networking event at World Market in St. Louis. Now, to be perfectly honest, I haven’t seen many of his videos and have never purchased a bottle of wine in my life, so I certainly can’t claim to be his biggest fan. However, after meeting him, I can safely say that this is one guy that really knows what he’s talking about, especially when it comes to knowing where the web is going. On top of that, he’s super nice.

After standing in line for about 20 minutes to get a signed copy of “Crush It,” I met Gary, shook his hand, and told him I had a strange request. My buddy Brad(@imbradmiller) couldn’t make it to the event because he was stuck at the office working late. Naturally, I had to rub it in that he couldn’t be there so I thought, “what’s better than putting him on the phone with Gary Vaynerchuk? Nothing.” So I handed my iPhone to Gary with Brad on the line. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I do remember him cursing at Brad, asking him why wasn’t able to make it. After joking with him a bit, he let him know that he was genuinely sorry he couldn’t be there. After hanging up with Brad, Gary signed a book for me and proceeded to kick my butt in an epic thumb wrestling match.

After the signing, Gary spoke for at least an hour. I think the most important thing he spoke on had to do with the companies he’s been investing in, Gowalla and Matt Galligan’s own SimpleGeo. After the event/talk, there were quite a few of us who went over to Robust Wine Bar and had some time to talk with Gary in a much more casual setting. I also met some awesome folks from the Social Media Club St. Louis. All in all, it was a great event and I’m certainly glad I was able to participate and spend a little time getting to know the Jets-loving Gary Vaynerchuk.

The video I posted is part 1 in a series of 7 videos posted by Karen Goodman (@karenstl), a real estate agent in the area, who runs a blog called Arch City Homes. I would encourage you to watch all the videos if you have time, as the advice and information he shares are indispensable. And also, big thanks to Karen for posting the videos!

Odds are if you were using the Custom Post Template plugin and upgraded to WordPress 2.9, it broke. Luckily, there is a very simple fix while you wait for an official update. Navigate to your plugins directory, pop open the file named ‘custom-post-templates.php’ and find line 126. Replace the whole line with the following:

$template_data = implode( '', file( $template ) );

That should take care of it. Enjoy!

I just wanted to share the new logo for one of the projects I am currently working on. Odds are if you’re in the WordPress world, you know John Saddington. He operates under @human3rror on twitter and has released a number of WordPress themes on his website. He is a great guy and I am very excited to be working with him on a very fun project. I just recently completed the logo for this super-secret project and asked John if I could share this with you all to get some feedback on it. Basically, the concept behind the logo is the idea of being recharged or refueled. I’d love to know what you think about it!

I was in the process of transferring MashedJobs.com to its new owner (recently sold on Flippa) and while I was working in my GoDaddy account, I thought it would be fun to go through the list of domain names I own and list them all here with an explanation of why I own them. After participating in the latest meme-craze URL ABC from TVD, I thought this would be a fun way to share my ideas and domain purchase mistakes with all my friends.
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My son is the most awesome little guy I’ve ever met (and I’m not biased of course . We recorded a short video to discuss some things J. J. likes and what he is thankful for. He has a cleft palate so some of the sounds you hear him make in this video are replacement sounds for ones he cannot produce. He is on a waiting list to have a surgery that will help correct his speech problems.

I’m a big fan of internet memes so when Tim Van Damme, Sam Brown, and EJS posted this, I had to join in. It’s a simple concept: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser and type one letter and record the first site that pops up starting with that letter. Continue reading »

Kyle, you are a designer. I am a designer. You like to eat beef jerky. I like to eat filet mignon. You like to skip showers every other day. I like to be clean and use deodorant. You look like the unabomber. I look like Jack Bauer… I could go on. But I think you get the point. Continue reading »