Comments for Philip Jacob / Whirlycott

Comment on StyleFeeder: a retrospective by Rajesh Singh

Rajesh Singh — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:59:30 +0000

Phil – Congratulations! Now what is your next adventure.. I’m willing to invest a bit!

Comment on StyleFeeder: a retrospective by Fatma Yalcin

Fatma Yalcin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:07:35 +0000

Great article, Phil. Thank you for sharing your experience (and mentioning Curisma)!

Comment on StyleFeeder: a retrospective by Mads Srinivasan

Mads Srinivasan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:02:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Phil. What next

Comment on StyleFeeder: a retrospective by Jim McWethy

Jim McWethy — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:11:00 +0000

Hey Phil. You’ve been busy since the old BankNorth days. I followed StyleFeeder for awhile about 2 years ago… even won a Lucky Brands T-shirt by participating in some kind of StyleFeeder contest/raffle. Like everyone else, I found your retrospective very interesting, and very well written. Kudos. I hope our paths cross at some point in the future. I’d love to work with you again, in a meaningful way. No passengers. Jim.

Comment on StyleFeeder: a retrospective by Duncan Shannon

Duncan Shannon — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:09:35 +0000

Congrats Phil! Thanks for sharing some of the story – it is fascinating to read.

Glad to hear the folks at Time Inc were so great.

@Yoav – you said it exactly right.

Comment on StyleFeeder: a retrospective by Yoav Shapira

Yoav Shapira — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:17:22 +0000

I don’t think authors of posts like this one realize how fascinating they are to outsiders like me. Thanks for sharing!

Would love to learn more about the structure of the offers you turned down, and why.

Comment on StyleFeeder: a retrospective by Dharmesh Shah

Dharmesh Shah — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:04:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing your story, and congrats again!

Speaking on behalf of entrepreneurs everywhere, we’d love to hear more details about some of the trade-offs you were trying to figure out when you were evaluating the Time, Inc. deal. I understand it’s often hard to share some of that stuff — which is precisely what makes it so valuable.

Comment on Marketing: The Blimp Test by StyleFeeder: a retrospective | Philip Jacob / Whirlycott

StyleFeeder: a retrospective | Philip Jacob / Whirlycott — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 03:48:11 +0000

[...] a cheapskate. It’s just that we didn’t blow our cash on parties, fancy office space, speculative marketing adventures, or [...]

Comment on Focus by StyleFeeder: a retrospective | Philip Jacob / Whirlycott

StyleFeeder: a retrospective | Philip Jacob / Whirlycott — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 03:42:46 +0000

[...] else in our space. How did we compete with companies that had 2-10x our resources? Hard work, focus, culture and excellent business relationships. If you know me personally, you will know that I am [...]

Comment on More UTF-8 head-thumping with Hibernate 3 by Mohammad Ilyas Soomro

Mohammad Ilyas Soomro — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:28:35 +0000

In Hibernate 3.0 with MySQL 4 and mysql-connector 3.0.8, UTF-8 is not working…
core mysql APIs are fetching and inserting utf8 characters correctly, but Hibernate session is not selecting or inserting special characters. I have tried it with Hibernate 3.0 + Mysql 5 + mysql-connector 5.0.8, working fine… but not with above config

Please help me, how can I insert special characters (UTF-8) using this config : Hibernate 3.0 + Mysql 4.0.1 + mysql-connector 3.0.8

my hibernat-cfg.xml file contain:

true
UTF-8

In JSPs :

in HTML :

Even I am using :
request.setCharacterEncoding(“UTF-8″);
in Filter.

I will highly appreciate…