Archive for October, 2006
Cool Code v Working Code
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Developers and Administrators under the age of thirty have no idea why old farts like me are sceptical of the productivity claims, why we roll our eyes at the hype and buzzwords that sell books and consulting engagements, about the amzing new programming language / technique / methodology du jour. Occassionally, it’s because we’ve seen [...]
Cluetrain manifesto
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006The entire text of The Cluetrain Manifesto is now available online. Bookmark It Hide Sites
Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Monday, October 16th, 2006Heroic leaders are a disaster. Seventy per cent of mergers fail. In most organisations, financial incentives cause more problems than they solve. There is no connection between high executive pay and company performance (well, there is – the wider the pay differentials, the lower the commitment of the less well paid). The main result of [...]
Set up a personal, home SSH server
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006How to set up a personal, home SSH server Why SSH? Unlike a home web server, SSH is read/write, meaning you can get and put files on a server with it. Unlike a home FTP server, SSH is secure. All the transactions are encrypted and cannot be sniffed. Unlike a VNC server, SSH alone doesnt [...]
Opensource CMS blogs e-commerce groupware Forums etc
Saturday, October 7th, 2006www.opensourcecms.com is designed to give you the opportunity to “try out” some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. The site provides an administrator username and password for every system which allows you to to add and delete content, change the way things look, basically be the admin [...]
Web-Developer Server Suite: WAMP [Windows, Apache, PHP, MySQL], ASP, JSP, Perl, SSL – DeveloperSide.NET
Thursday, October 5th, 2006DeveloperSide have a comprehensive set of install packages for building WAMP [Windows, Apache, PHP/perl, MySQL] systems, including guides to making wordpress and phpBB work. Bookmark It Hide Sites
Include SOME Google Gadgets Into Any Page
Thursday, October 5th, 2006Google has announced that some of the gadgets available for Google Personalized Homepage can be embedded into any web page. The list of the gadgets includes: Google Calendar Viewer, Google Calculator, US Traffic Information, Moon Phase, Picasa Album Viewer and more. This way, you can enrich your web page with live information. Google gives an [...]
Top 10 Lies told to the Naive
Thursday, October 5th, 2006For freelancers / contractors, in the end, working commercially, being a terrific artist, designer or technician is about half the task. The other half is “the business”, chasing work, chasing money, chasing client commitment, keeping up to date ….. Sure, you can outsource some of that to an agency, but then you have to manage [...]
Creating a Static Front Page in Word Press
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006For various reasons, you may want to present users with a static page, but still use your word press themes etc. Happily, there’s a WordPress plugin, Filosofo Home-Page Control, that does easily, without manipulating your code or editing. Install plugin. Choose which page to be the home page. Thats the functionality I’m using at the [...]
Ten Business Myths
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006Venture capitalist Ron Garret has posted a list of eleven (despite the title) common mistakes entrepreneurs with a technology background make. A common theme is that good ideas sell; in reality, what a customer wants sells. By extension, having a Ph.D. and holding a patent are not particularly helpful if the intended end-user does not [...]
