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Back in my first startup where we were accepting credit cards, we purchased an SSL certificate in order to assure our customers that their credit card information was being transmitted securely.

We bought that SSL certificate from VeriSign for $495 per year.  That was 2003.

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Back when my startups were under the radar, I wanted to display a mailing address on my contact pages, but not my home address, of course. My assumption is that a mailing address gives customers the impression that you have an office somewhere, even though you’re actually working from a folding table in your living room.

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Thanks to a comment by Wade on the article “A Businessperson’s Introduction to Servers”, I looked into the BizSpark program from Microsoft.

BizSpark is a program to help young startups get all the software they need to run their businesses.

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For a long time, I stayed away from JavaScript.  I would use it for very small interactions, but for major functionality like menus and UI, I stayed away.  The reason was twofold:

• Was too hard to test and get working across multiple browsers
• Was just so confusing! Gah!

So I missed the big Ajax revolution and opportunities thereof.  Even when I finally caught up with Ajax at the end of 2005, I was still trying to use cross-browser goodness via if/else statements.  Even as late as 2007, my berating of JavaScript could be heard amongst co-workers.  Such encouraging phrases as “it’s object-based, not object-oriented” didn’t help me.

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Every web developer tries to save time and effort when making a website.  The sign of a good developer is the ability to turn laziness into efficiency.  Instead of doing the same boring thing again and again and wasting time, a good developer will create ways to do it again in a way that reuses work they’ve done before.

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