Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Day 2. I must admit, I am having some Dreamweaver withdrawals. I can see how they can 'vendor-lock' you in when they perfect the basic programming tasks. Improving your productivity is an investment, it is a continuous learning experience. You can't settle with just ...
Posted in Development, General | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
In my development environment, it was almost trivial to send the E-mails via sendmail; however, it was frustrating to get SMTP to work with MediaTemple.net. After several hours of trial and error and searching various resources I was able to get everything working. This article will document the entire ...
Posted in Ruby on Rails | 2 Comments »
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
From a static html page to creating a Content Management System from scratch, there are certain tools that increase productivity geometrically. Here I present the tools that have greatly enhanced my own productivity and our team.
Posted in Development | 7 Comments »
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Day One – What I have set up…
I am a little overwhelmed with the amount of features in Eclipse! This is undoubtedly a great thing! I was particularly impressed with the number of features that worked right out of the box... Let me go over quickly some of ...
Posted in Development, Productivity | 4 Comments »
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
It is said that you can not improve unless you have some metric with which to measure against. Fortunately, for websites there are many metrics to use. Following is a list of resources that have been useful to us as we grow.
Posted in Marketing | 1 Comment »
Friday, July 27th, 2007
One of my biggest complaints of Dreamweaver was that it made me a lazy [in a bad way] programmer. Personally, I am always looking to make life easier. We’re programmers damn it, we are naturally lazy
Posted in Development | 6 Comments »
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
From the article: "...what I like is they have a strategy, a point-of-view for building websites and were gracious enough to share very detailed instructions on how to go about building a website. They even delve into actual installation details of the various software packages they use. Anyone can benefit ...
Posted in ThemBid.com News | No Comments »
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
By Elmer Thomas
According to Guy Kawasaki, "If you miss any of them, your organization might die." Here I will examine these seven milestones and speak on how our company has applied them as we experience rapid growth ( Kawasaki is light with examples in his excellent book The Art of ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
By Elmer Thomas
Napoleon Hill described this formula as "A success formula that always succeeds when applied." This formula was created by none other than Benjamin Franklin. Basically, Franklin wanted to leave a formula behind for his son through his autobiography. Franklin came up with a list of essential virtues and ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
It seems that most business models are heavily based on generating revenue through online advertising. This includes giant companies such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This also has been the primary motivation for the purchase of online communities such as MySpace, YouTube, and probably Facebook in the near ...
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