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…
Posted by admin on November 25th, 2007 |
0 commentsJust checking the stats for YYZtech.ca, oddly they’ve been down this weekend. Since most of the site’s visitors are Canadian, I’m thinking, “What? is this everybody getting ready for the Grey Cup or something?” So much for Hockey Nation – or does that I should be looking for another downturn in the spring, about the time the Leafs start falling (apart)?
Posted by admin on November 20th, 2007 |
0 commentsWell after running ZEE4 since about 2002, I’ve decided it’s finally time to get a server. Basically the high cost of semi-dedicated machine has been the major hurtle. Thanks to a 1970s-style Canadian dollar (means an automatic 2% discount on U.S. prices as of today) and general price drops in servers, it’s about time.
Posted by admin on November 17th, 2007 |
0 commentsWell this summer’s project, Halifax-Restaurants.com was a bit of a disappointment (stillborn would be a bit cruel), mostly due to my unfamiliarity with the CakePHP framework I used as the underlying framework, I was surprised to see that it was actually starting to attract visitors from the Halifax area, according to Google Analytics.
That’s the good news. The bad is the time I have to work on it. Ideally, I’d like to re-write nearly everything about it, then fix up the layout, which is too ad-heavy, as opposed to content for me right now. I have a few ideas about how that can be improved, but the fact is, adding content is the biggest task right now.
