Archive for November, 2006

Snap Preview Anywhere Install Tutorial

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

I recently found this neat little snippet of code called Snap Preview Anywhere™ that basically allows you to hover over a link on a given page and preview the page that the link is pointing towards. It’s a neat little idea that allows your viewing audience to see what ...

Ubuntu: Friendly Linux for Human Beings

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

I’ve been checking out this operating system for the past couple of months. For those of you who do not know what I am talking about Ubuntu is a new distribution of the Linux operating system. I originally heard about this operating system from a friend who suggested ...

Cultivating Creativity in Business

Friday, November 24th, 2006

When you think of the term “business” most people in general don’t think about fun, creativity, play and things like that.  Most see business as profit margins, rates of return or dollars and cents.  My question is, “Why can’t it be both?”  Companies of all shapes and sizes can be ...

Business is all about “people”

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Ever since I bought my laptop from dell I can tell you that I’ve been impressed by the measures they take to collect data about you.  They really get the whole “we want to learn about our customers” point I’ve talked about a few times before on this blog.  My ...

Do you have a Life Plan?

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Until recently this is something that I have been overlooking actually doing. I’ve heard about having a “life plan” but I honestly did not know how to go about even starting one until I ran across an article at StartupNation.com the other day. Why is having a plan in life ...

A Business Card is born

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

I’ve been putting together my business for the past few months and finally I am getting to the point of having business cards done up. I could pay someone just as easily to design and develop a layout but it won’t have that personal touch that I think misses ...

In Business and Stressed Out?

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Business from day to day can be stressful, trying and down right hard at times.  You rarely hear about the entrepreneur that spent nights working on his business for years never taking holidays or going out and socializing or just having fun hitting golf balls but the truth is that ...

AJAX for ASP.NET – It’s about time

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

The other day I came across the fact that Microsoft released a free version of AJAX that works with ASP.NET. For those of you developing in ASP.NET or ASP.NET 2.0 this means that you can add AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components to your applications. This was really ...

Validating your CSS, HTML or XHTML Code

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Personally, until recently I never validated my code because I just didn’t see the point in wasting that extra time to do so. As I get into developing more web projects lately I am taking greater skill and time to simply tie up the loose ends and validating code ...