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Today is the launch for the Thredbo Ski Patrol site, one done by donation of time from various sources from within the patrol. Special thanks go to Leo Kesselring, the designer from Red5 and The Web Showroom for providing his time to making it look so good. The CMS system is open source and provided […]


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  [box style=”approved”]Built to support sale of subscriptions for online Business Benchmarking Solution software[/box] Introduction: The Benchmarking.com.au platform has been built to allow any industry vertical to use the system to benchmark their business. The website provides the avenue to subscribe to the software, and make payments. It then interfaces to the application to create […]


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[box style=”approved”]Legal business benchmarking system built from ground up, javascript and ajax used heavily[/box] [box style=”approved”]2012 upgrades included benchmarking snapshots, and flexible benchmark / snapshot comparison[/box] Introduction: Legalbenchmarking came out of a niche requirement from FMRC to provide benchmarking for legal firms in Australia. We scoped and built the payment system, and benchmarking system on top […]


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[box style=”approved”]WordPress driven community site[/box] Introduction: The King St Newtown project strives to bring people back to the traditional high street in the battle against the ever convenient shopping malls. By bringing the community together and using the combined effort, the project is driving interest online and offline through social media and community campaigns and […]


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[box style=”approved”]Java build on Debian, Tomcat, Sphinx and PostgreSQL[/box] Introduction: InsideTrak is Australia’s latest entry to the job seeker market. It seeks to assist people in finding an employer they wish to work for by combining job listings and employee reviews in one place. This concept is a first in the market, and seeks to […]


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How to get UDID iphone

When you are building your first iphone app, as everyone is these days, you may need to find your device identifier (UDID) in order to load it into the code so your phone / device is authorised to run it without it going through the app store. Check out the tutorial on how to get […]


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[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] […]


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  [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, […]


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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 […]


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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 […]


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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 […]


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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 […]


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