Productivity
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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 [...]
Cluetrain manifesto
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006The entire text of The Cluetrain Manifesto is now available online.
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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 let you drive your [...]
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.
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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 [...]
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 moment.
I’m also [...]
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 [...]
incoming RSS feeds on wp
Friday, September 29th, 2006Shaolin Tiger’s “How to Use RSS Feeds on Your WordPress Site”
from Adding RSS Feeds to WordPress
One issue I did come up against is that although you can put Template Tags and PHP code into a Page Template, you cannot put these into the content of a Page and expect them to run. This meant I [...]
Use Excel to make a timeline
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006The Microsoft Education Center has a good step by step tutorial on how to make a timeline in Excel.
Whether you’re looking to make a somewhat involved chronological timeline, or just a simple from Point A to Point B kind of deal, this tutorial’s got you covered. Create a Timeline in Excel [Microsoft Education Center]
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How to get rid of startup programs (XP only, sorry)
Thursday, September 7th, 2006I recently removed some programs from my home PC. however, the uninstall process didn’t work properly for some of them, and while the executable or DLLs have gone, there are still some references to them. This causes an error at startup. It’s just a windows dialog box that I click OPK to, [...]
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