Tristan Waddington | Web Development and Strategic Communication

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Last October I helped launch www.psylabstudios.com, an online store for my friend Lars so he can hawk merch for his band Oneiroid Psychosis. This was my first foray into ecommerce, one that went pretty smoothly all things considered. We couldn’t use SSL, so we ended up using the Google Checkout API. I wrote a custom shopping cart for the site using the Google...

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We use Pound as a reverse-proxy and loud-balancing frontend to our web cluster here in the office. Today we had some NAT problems with our proxy server and ended up with some server downtime. Pound defaults to outputting a cryptic error message when it can’t reach a valid host: The service is not available. Please try again later. This isn’t very helpful to...

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If you’re looking for someone with a diverse background in IT, web development, social media, online marketing and public relations — someone who’s as passionate about the latest gadget as he is about a good book — then you’ve come to the right place.

I graduated from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication in December 2009. Since then I’ve relocated to Portland Oregon where I do freelance web development and consulting.

I’ve recently started working on this site again so please bear with me as I polish things up a bit.

-Tristan Waddington

I knew I kept my old copy of Windows XP around for a reason. Creating a virtual OS in VirtualBox so I have one less reason to boot Win7.

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