About The Author
Aaron Jorbin is a Washington, DC based Web Developer who builds and manages custom websites, applications, and WordPress plugins. He strives to always build high quality experiences for all users of web applications.
He also writes and shares information about the past, his random opinions, and personal adventures.
Author Archives: Aaron Jorbin
The Third Monday of January
Every year for the past ten years, I have spent at least part of the third Monday of January listening to Dr. King’s “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” speech. It’s my tradition and one I encourage you to partake … Continue reading
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How was my site shared in 2011?
A cool project that my team at AddThis worked on to start the new year was to build an individual info graphic for a number of our publishers. To do this, we built a basic HTML page and used PhantomJS … Continue reading
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Two Chrome Extensions I’ve Started Using
I’ve started using two chrome extensions lately. Both are pretty simple and are designed to make one thing easier. The first is The Png Project which makes it so that on any Noun Project page, you can download the image as … Continue reading
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It wasn’t long ago that there was a “Blue Collar Caucus” in congress that included a mill foreman, a barber, a pipe fitter and a house painter. Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the … Continue reading
One Week with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
One week ago I bought a new top of the line phone for the first time since 2001 when the high end feature I wanted was “Vibrating alerts”. I’ve now had the galaxy nexus for a week and have gotten … Continue reading
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Real Time Search and Social Analytics
Over at AddThis, we just released an expanded version of our Live View Analytics. We now are bringing together what was multiple screens of live data in to a single live view. This was a pretty fun project. The server … Continue reading
Russia proposes draft resolution on Syria
After Russia (along with China) vetoed a resolution on Syria back in October, the UN Security Council has remained in a stalemate. This week though, Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the UN, introduced a draft resolution on Syria that … Continue reading
