Archive for the ‘Computers, Technology & Programming’ Category

OpenOffice.org for your Open Business

Monday, December 11th, 2006

As I wrote about yesterday if you are in business and even if you use computers recreationally you've probably come across open source applications like WordPress (like this Blog has used), Ubuntu (thanks Jason ;) ) and the closed source products from such companies as Microsoft, Trend Micro, Adobe among ...

Closed Source & Open Source for Your Business

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

So much of today’s software is open source based because people use it in mass quantities. There are competitive advantages to both Closed and Open source software but how do they affect your business? With software being used by pretty much every business in the modern world today ...

3 Things I love about MindPetals.com

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

I’ve been a mindpetals blogger for about 2 months now and I’ve been impressed with the site and the format every since I heard about them. David Askaripour is the founder of this niche Blog that puts excellent startup business content before everything else. I was telling a ...

Ubuntu Lovers show your pride

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Now I am sure you’ve heard me talking about Ubuntu and the trials and tribulations I’ve been having to get Ubuntu installed on my Laptop but for all you Ubuntu lovers out there that are interested you can now get stickers to show everyone that you are an Ubuntu supporter. This ...

The Ubuntu Install Continues

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

As I originally wrote in my last posting about Ubuntu entitled, Ubuntu: Friendly Linux for Human Beings, I got talking about this interesting little operating system. I had recently bought a dell laptop and as you may or may not know dell does not ship system disks with their ...

Abused Buzzword: Web 2.0

Friday, December 1st, 2006

I’ve got to say that one of the best blogs around is Kathy Sierra’s, Creating Passionate Users Blog.  Recently she wrote about the Web 2.0 phenomenon and I personally thought this passage was quite fitting… Many people hate the phrase "Web 2.0" even more than they hate what they believe it ...

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 ...

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 ...