[panel style=”success” text_align=”left”]iPhone & Android mobile application for national community[/panel] Introduction: OzNepal was set up to bring information to all of the Nepalese community across Australia. With a strong, and large community across the continent a mobile app was seen as a big opportunity to help get the next generation involved, and included. [raw] [one_half] […]
[box style=”approved”]AdviserVoice is on WordPress, a custom build[/box][box style=”approved”]2012 upgrades include upgrade from WordPress 3.0 to 3.4 and removal of core code hacks and back track to standard plugins[/box] Introduction: AdviserVoice is one of Australia’s top 4 sources of news and information for Financial Advisers. Producing 4-5 fresh new stories and content every day, […]
Pinterest is the next big thing – why? Because the user base is massively in favour of females. This is a new phenomenon in social networking, and its growing FAST! This small tutorial will show you how to add Pinterest pin it button for images on your site. I have had the pleasure of doing […]
How to use agrep, a windows based version of the linux command line grep tool. This example comes from finding lines related to a message in smartermail log files. Lets assume we are trying to find an email and track the actions our mail server did for that email. First I am going to filter […]
I just took a trip around on CVSDude, and had a look at their testimonials page. We use them for source control, outsourcing it is so much easier than doing it at work or home your self, and they have excellent rates. Anyhow – I noticed that my quote, made while at a small (but […]
I have been working hard on a new site, and having put Adwords up I no longer want to see my hits on the Google Analytics reports because it all just gets in the way. Analytics gives you 2 ways of excluding traffic using the filters. The first is by IP Address, and the second […]
Recently I discussed how to set up HTTP Compression in IIS 6 using its native gzip support. Here are a couple of tools you can use to verify your compression is set up correctly. Both tell you pretty much the same information, simply enter your URL and it tells you the result, and how much […]
I have just come across 2 articles on the web based around how to hire the best developers and I think they are both well worth reading. They are great articles, especially like me you are going through a ‘team re-adjustment’ period. First up is Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame, this article is […]
A while back we made the move to managed source control (in our case Subversion) hosting and having done some hunting around we found CVSDude. Despite slightly surferesque name the company seemed to have a shining reputation from blogs, mailing lists and on their own site. Looks like a great deal right? Well yes it […]
I have a job where ad-hoc client support via email is a regular occurrence. Taking screen shots of sites and particular screens to help explain the sometimes random and crazy words that come out of my brain is always helpful for the hapless recipient of my ramblings. So I went on a hunt for a […]
Trying to get a local network talk via a VPNto another internal network is not something I want to try and do again in a hurry. However – once I had my local machine at home chatting nicely with our hosted production server network I realised that something came to my attention that hasn’t for […]
I recently moved my site from PHP over to ColdFusion, and this gave me a nice warm fluffy feeling. However, some of the articles I posted actually received a fair amount of traffic, so I had to leave a few php pages in the system and ask them to redirect to the new and improved […]
I have recently signed up to both of these sites, for different reasons, but have been stunned when my chosen user name of length has been accepted on both sites. I would have thought that sites like this, with so many users, someone would have claimed that username long ago. My Technorati Profile and my […]
With so many extensions out there and so little time to choose them I thought I would share the ones I have installed and use all the time. FireBug Simply a must have for any web developer, allows you to inspect the webpage, its elements, css, script, downloads size and speed, edit css, script and […]
