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nuttzy99
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 Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject: What the heck is Spelling Cow? |
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"What's going on here?" you ask? The short answer is, this site aims to improve on-line communities with a free service (hopefully serviceS soon!).
For the long answer, I'll give a quick blurb about me. I've been a strong supporter of the Open Source community for several years now. In fact, my fantasy job would be to work full-time on a great OS project (preferably phpBB  ).
I owned and operated an ISP for 9 years, and this month I'm cashing in my chips before dial up completely dries up. Having never held a "real" job before, I now find myself unemployed and searching for the next thing. Being a code monkey at heart, that probably meant finding a job as a software engineer, writing code to profit someone else's biz. Obviously that goes against my entrepreneurial nature 
My wife and I, with our 11 month old, quickly realized that being home all the time was great! My wife kiddingly said, "you should figure out a way to work from home ALL the time." Within one hour I had come up with the idea for Spelling Cow.
Being involved with phpBB as MOD Team Leader has given me great insight as to what is both lacking and desired by on-line communities. In short, they want features and don't want to pay for them Fortunately they don't mind unobtrusive ads and will even click on one from time to time.
Thus, it is my hope that I can scratch out a living, provide some great services, and maybe I'll some time even be able to pitch in at phpBB full-time  That's the goal and that's where we are going.
Thanks for supporting Spelling Cow!
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Dishy
Joined: 26 May 2004
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Congrats! OMG ITS TEH NUTTZY!!!!! <3
Hope you are having fun with your young'n. 11 months? Damn. I remember reading about it on BH's front page, and it definitely didn't seem like 11 months ago.
Again, thanks for what you've done for us. We love you, come back to BH whenever you can. |
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Clark3934
Joined: 26 May 2004
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Location: Oklahoma!
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Good luck with your newest project. Hope is goes along well for you. Thanks for supporting phpbb and the open source community. 
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Wild Child
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yeah. wow. 11 months already. They grow up fast nuttzy. lol. thats for damn sure.
Your plans to make a living off this.. Is going to be through ads? Correct me if I am wrong.
I bet you would make some $$$$$ if you finished that auction system for nutport / i-mod . But I guess d2 is a thing of your past. |
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$up3rFr4nk
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Goodluck
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nuttzy99
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 3:21 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, my boy is awesome! I'll post up some pics soon
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ZoliveR
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:51 am Post subject: |
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Congrats too
It sounds a wonderful project
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GPHemsley
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TEH DANCING COW IS BACK!
Nice to see you're still alive. I can't believe it's been 11 months, but alas, it was last June.... 
Good luck on your project here... I doubt I'll ever need it ( ), but good luck nonetheless.... And get your butt back over to EasyMOD!!!
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nuttzy99
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 2:42 am Post subject: |
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Hehe... yes, yes... I will be returning to EM shortly, especially since I no longer have a full-time job I think its a riot that you found this site, JP How did you?
-Nuttzy
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GPHemsley
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| nuttzy99 wrote: | Hehe... yes, yes... I will be returning to EM shortly, especially since I no longer have a full-time job I think its a riot that you found this site, JP How did you?
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Well, I suppose you already know how I found the site... http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB22/viewtopic.php?p=93498#93498 ...but there you are, just in case.
Oh, and watch those quick fingers of yours! "JP"... heh.
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| nuttzy99 wrote: | | ...especially since I no longer have a full-time job |
So it didn't work for your "dream job"? 
P.S.: glad to see you again 
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Pickled_Weasel666
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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What was the name of your ISP?
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| Pickled_Weasel666 wrote: | | What was the name of your ISP? |
Pay to much for my 56k, i know you will because its one dollar cheaper then AOL and its still over priced and you're a retarded consumer
I think it went along the lines of something like that
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nuttzy99
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| -=ET=- wrote: | | nuttzy99 wrote: | | ...especially since I no longer have a full-time job |
So it didn't work for your "dream job"?
P.S.: glad to see you again |
Hi ET Glad to see you tracked me down Nope, dream job turned out to not be so dreamy after all so that is behind me now.
As for the ISP I used to own, it was www.netway.com Don't mess with them though since I still need them
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nuttzy99
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Well, the 26th will be one month since this website became public knowledge. Time to write down some things before I forget them! Now that things have settled down a bit, I'm hoping to keep a bit of a blog.
May 8: came up with the idea, as I mentioned in the first post
May 9: after doing research all night, started development
May 10: had basics working
May 11: had proof of concept working... decided to go for it!
May 14: registered www.spellingcow.com
May 14: suspended things for a Cincinnati trip to see sister-in-law 
May 15: Holiday Inn Express in Toronto has broadband access!! Yay!
May 16: Ready to test on server! Test was a complete... FAILURE 
May 16: Wife, son, and I saw the Sox play the Blue Jays! Awesome time but Sox lost.
May 17: In Cinci... things not too bad, sneaking some Dev time
May 18: Figured the failure was a javascript access violation, working on alt methods
May 20: Blah, having to use slow dial-up access to do research 
May 21: Got the client-side web scraper working... should work but can't test until I get home
May 22: Driving all night to get home (14 hours) so baby will sleep...
May 23: ...tired!! Home! Tired!  Can't sleep Web scraper works!! Sleep now
May 23: After napping... SpellingCow website is born!
May 24: Got Google Ads working
May 26: Beta is installed and announced on www.blizzhackers.com ... hello world!
June 2: 2nd beta released, things are starting to take shape!
June 7: been bogged down with a project for phpBB.com... sucking me dry... finally done!
June 8: One month since I first got the idea, resuming work on project!
June 19: been working constantly, and things are quite spiffy. Decided this will be 1.0.0 instead of 0.2.0
June 22: released 1.0.0!!! Much rejoicing!
June 24: still waiting for BH to load up the new version. 5 sites using new version now:
andaluciaprojects.com/phpBB2
www.sogland.com/forums
dk.superfastbuys.com/forum
re-web.co.uk/fataldesire
AND www.spellingcow.com of course
Thoughts: LOVING working from home. Will talk more about that later.
-Nuttzy
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