Posted by admin on October 5th, 2009 |
0 commentsSimcoeDining.com has been running for 3 months as of October and currently lists about 150 of the best restaurants, bars and clubs in the Simcoe County area which includes Barrie, Orillia and Collingwood.
Originally launched as a directory in 2007, a complete re-write of the site was done over a 2 month period this past summer.
Technical: SimcoeDining is written using the CakePHP framework and uses the jQuery UI library for the client-side.
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Posted by admin on July 19th, 2009 |
0 commentsAbout 4-5 years ago I picked up this book, Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists by Melbourne-based SitePoint, billed as a check-list of things a website should have to be successful. Well it was a lot of lists, a lot of the material was useful, unfortunately the book itself looked like it had been typeset in Word and then printed off on a photocopier.
Fortunately I think they realized this too and in the last few years they’ve really improved to the point where the look of their books matches the technical material. In the Canada and the U.S. they have been distributed by O’Reilly publishing since 2004 and I wonder if that had some influence on their more inviting look.?
If you’re interested in web design I’d suggest having a look though some of their recent titles.
Links to Reviews:
http://yyztech.ca/reviews/book/principles-beautiful-web-design
http://yyztech.ca/reviews/book/sexy-web-design
http://yyztech.ca/reviews/book/everything-you-know-about-css-is-wrong
books . design . sitepoint
Posted by admin on November 28th, 2008 |
0 commentsIt’s the story about a young teenager in the West Island of Montreal who hacked website like Yahoo, CNN, eBay, Dell and others in year 2000. The book follows Michael Calce’s involvement in hacking, from his early adventures on AOL, launching the attacks on Yahoo, CNN and eBay in 1999 to the resulting investigation, trial and sentencing that followed. The second part of the book covers a bit of his life afterwards but is mostly on how hacking has changed since his Mafiaboy days and ways for users to protect themselves online.
http://yyztech.ca/reviews/book/mafiaboy-how-cracked-internet-why-still-broken
Posted by admin on June 10th, 2008 |
0 commentsSitePoint’s got a 200 page book that covers the mysterious world of Project Management. Written by GeekManager blogger Meri Williams this covers what PM is, isn’t and why it’s good to know.
Like many of the new SitePoint books this book explains a complex topic with a few illustrations and a clean layout…For a topic I was quite unfamilir with when I started, I’d recommend this book as a good overview to the topic.
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Posted by admin on May 31st, 2008 |
0 commentsWill this actually make it through? A net neutrality bill has just hit the Canadian House of Commons! A landmark piece of legislation.
“The NDP is “very wary” about the government intervening in the internet, Angus told the House of Commons. But the bill isn’t about regulating the internet, it’s about ensuring there will be scrutiny of those who provide access to it, he said.”
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Posted by admin on May 29th, 2008 |
0 commentsJust checking in on YYZtech.ca this evening and noticed a whole lot of ads for the Sex And The City movie coming out this week. Now I’m guessing they where targeting city-specific sites, otherwise, I can’t figure out how we ended up with these ads? Just one of those strange things.
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2008 |
0 commentsBesides that hack there’s a whole lot more on gMail and rest of the Google eco-system (Blogger, YouTube, etc.)
One of the new style O’Rielly Hack books, this one looks at how to use Google’s applications through a series of short examples (aka hacks) covering, not just the office applications, but many other applications under the Google banner. For web designers, there’s a lot of material here too on how to integrate Google’s services into your own website.
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Posted by admin on May 19th, 2008 |
0 commentsI haven’t updated this blog in a while, but that’s not to say I haven’t been blogging pre-say. I realized a few months ago that most of my blogging had moved to Twitter.
Why? Well there’s a few reasons:
- via its gMail interface, blogging is as simple as sending a text message, making it very immediate
- the restrictions (160-odd characters, no images, short urls) make tight writing a necessity
- you don’t feel like you have to write 2-3 paragraphs (that’s me) when you can sum things up in a sentance
- the social aspects – it’s not Facebook, but that’s probably a good thing – really if i want post an album, I can use Flikr
- the 3rd-party apps – there’s a whole host of things built on Twitter’s api, from search engines like TweetScan to Twitbin there’s a lot of interesting things being built around it.
- it’s fun
Blogging certainly has its place, but if you’re looking for something less formal- and quite possibly the way things are going, give it a try.
Posted by admin on December 27th, 2007 |
0 commentsIt looks like Sitepoint noted YYZtech’s list of best books for web designers 2007 a few weeks back – thanks guys! Seriously, SitePoint seems to be one of those publishers that is really improving, I remember their one of their early checklist books, good information, but very functional layout, flip forward to something like their CSS Anthology and you see how far they have come.
Posted by admin on December 1st, 2007 |
0 commentsWell since moving to DreamHost a few days back, there’s been no problems so far – in fact, I’m finding their organizing to be much better than the previous hosting solutions I’ve used. As of today, the under-maintained ZEE4 site is running on it as well… now about that under-maintained part…
