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  The Easiest Way to Create and Share a Photo Album A couple of years ago Dan and I spent a weekend developing a simple way to send large files over the web. We documented the 20 hours of development we spent on creating the file transfer service and the result, TransferBigFiles.com , turned out to be... Read More... Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 9:42 PM by Hamid | 12 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF, Album Creation, Photo Album, Sending Pictures, PhotoDrop

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  A Quick Update on TransferBigFiles.com About a year and half ago, Dan and I had a crazy idea to see if we can build a complete, fully functioning web site to send large files of up to 1GB to someone (files that email programs typically reject) in just a weekend. After just 20 hours of development,... Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:14 AM by Hamid | 11 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF

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  An Update on TransferBigFiles.com (the Free "Send Large Files" service) WOW! The demand for this service has been incredible. Sending large files on the Internet is apparently a big problem that is faced by most everyone. By the second day after launch, TransferBigFiles.com was using up more bandwidth each day than all of... Read More... Posted Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:12 PM by Hamid | 5 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF

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  Just a Weekend Project! The Implementation of TransferBigFiles.com 20 hours. That's the amount of work we estimated each one of us would have to do to write the code, setup the database and move the servers for what would become TransferBigFiles.com. With that estimate in hand, we decided we'd work two 10-hour days:... Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:42 PM by Hamid | 67 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF

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  TransferBigFiles.com (beta) is Launched! WE DID IT! Dan and I are sitting here in the data center right now and we just finished setting up the TransferBigFiles.com servers. Everything is live and ready to use. The full story will follow. In the mean time, check it out: http://www.transferbigfiles.com... Read More... Posted Sunday, June 05, 2005 6:02 PM by Hamid | 6 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF

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  Tomorrow, 8AM Starts the TransferBigFiles.com Project Not a single line of code has been written, nothing has been tested, the hardware is not even in the right location, yet by 10pm on Sunday night (June 5th), we expect to launch the beta of TransferBigFiles.com . So why am I so confident that we'll be... Read More... Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 4:57 PM by Hamid | 4 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF

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  The Hardware is Here! A few updates about our crazy project : We have received the Dell hardware we ordered! (it looks great, but it’s not setup). Dan and I have had 1 lunch meeting so far where we discussed the requirements (see below) We’ve picked the name “... Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:32 PM by Hamid | 2 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF

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  We have ordered the hardware! We have ordered the hardware for our crazy project to help people transfer big files on the Internet. We decided to go with 1 main server for web and SQL and a separate, external 1.2 TB Network Attached Storage (NAS). This hardware layout will allow us... Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:59 PM by Hamid | 3 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF

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  A crazy idea (and a plan) The other day, Dan (an Axosoft co-worker) and I were talking about a service we use to send large files to customers or to obtain large files from customers. The service is called yousendit.com and it works something like this: you go to a web site and... Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:26 PM by Hamid | 10 Comments Filed under: Transfer Big Files, TBF