Archive for September, 2006
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Lately I’ve been thinking about people and that fact that most people are truly excellent at a small number of things. Experimentation is the key to finding out your strengths and your weaknesses. In business it’s the same thing, you have to be out there stomping out the fires to ...
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Aren’t you sick of hearing about web 2.0 this and that? I love when people ask for a "web 2.0 look" when Web 2.0 is more to do with functionality then anything else. It’s the latest in a long line of buzz words used to distract developers, designers ...
Posted in General, Computers, Technology & Programming, web development, Tutorials | 1 Comment »
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
I think that to showcase good web development is not nearly as important as showcasing bad web design and development. It’s funny, it’s interesting and there is a ton of it to be had out the World Wide Web. If you’ve recently come across bad design feel free ...
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Today i turned on my PC and found that i was getting a windows error code 8100030d because the firewall i was accessing MSN through jammed this particular version of MSN. This prompted me to uninstall my current version of windows live messenger (7.5 i believe) and try hunting ...
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
I see a lot of people from many various avenues of life all angling for the same thing. Their catch phrase is standard “I wanna be rich” to which I reply “Don’t we all”. The question is what does it mean to truly be rich? Does it ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
I am taking more time to talk about my next side venture, BizCandy, in the past month as i've mentioned it a few times on CommerceCubes. I suspect that by the end of September you'll have your first taste of BizCandy ( no pun intended... okay maybe ;) ).
What ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
I was recently reading a thread off my favorite web development community site, SitePoint, where a member was talking about how often people should update their sites. I personally think that most current sites aren't timeless; they are dynamic, meaning that they are consistently changing.
Part of the reason i take ...
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Sunday, September 10th, 2006
We recently created a module for Braids by Breslin that helped them sell an ebook to their customers. The site itself uses a shopping cart known as EcommerceTemplates. The architecture was a bit bulky and because it is not a cart built using the standards of OOP (Object ...
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
I am a big advocate for m-commerce personally and I have to tell you that I am really looking forward to the day when m-commerce comes “centre stage”. After hearing that Google is entering the ring with AdWords campaigns that can now be seen on mobile phones it is only ...
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
I’ve been playing around with WordPress over the past few months and one problem I’ve noticed is that the WordPress install defaults to using dynamic URLs like this….
http://commercecubes.com/publication/?p=59
By changing the structure of what is known as a Permalink you get a link that looks like this…
http://commercecubes.com/publication/2006/09/customer-loyalty-the-science-and-the-art/
It is pretty easy to ...
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