Part of our marketing effort at Vogogo has us exploring local radio station advertising as a way to reach potential customers that are not actively looking for an online payment solution. The ads just started running yesterday so it is too early to see any impact.
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I’ve been fighting with Grails 2.0 over the holidays in order to put together a plan to migrate at least one of our Grails systems from 1.3.7 to 2.0. I’ve made some headway in sorting out some of the expected problems like controller methods now being publicly callable as well as labelling some classes that should have been abstract but couldn’t be because Grails wasn’t able to work with them in earlier versions.
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I worked from home for a few years. It was a great experience as I was able to tune my work habits to extract the most productive hours out of a day. An unfortunate downside was how often my home phone would ring and completely destroy my flow. I had played with Asterisk, the open source PBX (i.e. phone system) in another venture I was involved with where several people working at different locations needed to answer the same 1-800 number. If my home phone would ring into an Asterisk server I would be able to filter out unwanted calls and auto-dialers.
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I recall building a small graphical user interface using a beta version of the ‘Swing AWT Extensions’ in the late 90’s and thinking to myself that it was going to change everything. Fast forward 12+ years, things have changed but much has stayed the same.
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301 redirects are the correct way to signify content available at a URL has been permanently moved to a new location. Returning a 301 redirect instructs browsers, web crawlers and other clients accessing your site to use the new page from this point forward. From a development perspective a 302 redirect and a 301 don’t appear to be any different. You hit the old URL and you are sent to the new one.
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I'm an idea developer. I'm also the Co-Founder, CTO of Redfall Technologies and Vogogo.com. I design and implement online payment systems, specifically online wallets, NACHA, Canadian Payments Association and credit card processing. I also dabble in all things technical. 
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