Archive for October, 2006

Developing Intelligence: The Question is ASP.NET or PHP?

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

I’ve been having a hell of a time trying to figure out what would help me more so in the development of BizCandy, ASP.NET or PHP. I finally had a chance to talk to a friend of mine this weekend, Bruce, who is a .NET Developer that lives up ...

Canada Business - If you an Entrepreneur in Canada Check this out!

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

I was watching the news this evening and during a commercial break i saw an advert for this site.  The Government of Canada has launched a new online service for Entrepreneurs in Canada to help them with various aspects of there business.  I wanted to share this information with those ...

Paper for the mind

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

A recent post on SmallBusinessBranding.com prompted this posting to be completely honest.  Danielle Rodgers and I were talking about idea generation and the best way to keep ideas.  Personally having a past as an art and design student I am used to keeping journals and “sketching out” ideas.  It is ...

Do You… Office?

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Many people who become entrepreneurs do so, in part, to get away from the dreaded office. The bland walls, cubicles the separate you from the outside world, the smell of toner in the air, that feeling of quiet desperation and the stress that seems to mount with each new ...

New Laptop Time and New Business

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

I finally went out and got a new laptop. I am getting into running my own day-to-day business operations and naturally I have a desktop that I’ve been using. I picked it up on eBay for around $400 in the spring of this year. It works great ...

Business Geek for October 2006: David Heinemeier Hanson

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Thanks to the help of Jason Liebe we have our first Business Geek for October. Mr. David Heinemeier Hanson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework. Jason had some other good selections that you can read about in the comments section of this post. For those of you unsure ...

What are “White Hat” & “Black Hat” SEO Techniques?

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

I am just getting into doing SEO on my respective sites, CommerceCubes (this site) and BizCandy (the new business I am launching). I’ve been reading a bit so far about SEO and becoming comfortable with it. I came across the terms “White Hat SEO” and “Black Hat SEO”. ...

“By Committee” Development: Work with your Customers NOT against them

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

I came across an article on the Creating Passionate Users Blog site today and finally its nice to see someone that thinks about users as much as I do. The posting he wrote was entitled "Oops... we forgot about the users", Written by Kathy Sierra. My favorite excerpt ...

Business Geeks - Who you do look up to?

Friday, October 6th, 2006

I am sure that anyone who has a business also has someone that they look up to. For that reason i decided to start the "Business Geeks" category. I know that i personally look up to certain successful people and i figure that most entrepreneurs and smaller business ...

Finding your voice when writing… or blogging

Friday, October 6th, 2006

I personally before this hadn’t written in years before starting this blog. Only recently (about June 2006) did I really want to involve myself with writing again. At first I tried to write content that I thought people would want to write (didn’t work too well) and then ...