Archive for the ‘Reviews – client side’ Category
The Smashing Book review – final installment
Part 5 Branding and Selling 
The last instalment in my series of reviews of the Smashing Book! Whew – for me a lot of blogging. I intend to make the whole thing available as a pdf shortly so that if any lost soul out there actually reads this blog, they can read it all in one horrendous slab if they want to.
EfficientPIM review
The world of personal information management software can be a strange one. 
Wandering through the various solutions that developers have come up with, you meet some pretty bizarre applications – contorted logic and peculiar terminology, colour schemes from hell and interfaces that predate Windows 3.1. Some try to lock you into the author’s world view and others so unstructured, they barely seem to offer any management.
Then, in a breathe of fresh air, you come across a PIM like EfficientPIM.
I am looking for a candidate to replace my old PIM which is no longer actively supported and Efficient PIM is the current frontrunner because…
CMSes rock but not everywhere all the time
First IT related post in a while. It is not that I haven’t been immersed as usual. If anything, too immersed. However my main day job has quietened down a bit and I will attempt to post on the technology I have been using lately.
I have often raved about templating in the blog and it still remains an issue for me. Recently, I have been revamping my own site. Iit has been broken for a few months now, but like the cobbler’s children’s shoes, it has taken a very long time to do any thing about it. For a few weeks there I was playing with using WordPress for the whole site, of which this blog is a just part, but in the end I decided to go with a static site with some php to do the otherwise repetitive bits and some javascript to do the fancy bits. Here’s why.
Wahoo – a new record
for the longest time without a blog post. Do I rule at slackness or what?
What, really. I have been working three jobs for 4 managers over the last 6 months, a 6 day a week gig with little in the way of holidays.
But things might be a bit different for a while as I have one less job to worry about for a few months – that is after I have to fly interstate to give a seminar to 5 people and then jet off to Hawaii for a week of hard leisure. Anyway enough of my whining about how I finance this blog………………
System utilities I use when I am working – which mostly means researching web servcies, doing site maintenance and editing on the server.
Templating tales
Long hiatus but living up to my rep as a spasmodic blogger. I have been hard at work on lotsa projects but as I live in a nominally christian country, I now have a few days off from everything. So I thought I would write a bit about sNews and my templating adventures.
More lives than Beric Dondarrion
but maybe a longer time between death and rising through the ashes. If you don’t know the reference, think repeat offender Lazarus.
I have been busy with paid work for which I am thankful and unpaid work soothes my soul, but I never quite forget my bloginess. So on with the show…
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My brain hurts
Too much information and too many ways of storing it. Yesterday, I was ordering an item over the net and I needed a record of a previous transaction in order to qualify for the frequent buyer discount. This started a search (using Agent Ransack) of my hard discs (I have 6 partitions) as I couldn’t remember where the hell I stored the receipt. Some time later…..
eBooks – linear and non-linear paths
I have been really immersed in eBooks the last few weeks as I work through all the jobs on my plate. And a big plate it has been. But onto the ebooks…
Bits and bobs
I have been flat chat this past month getting some urgent work commitments put to bed. Also the blog has been down as apparently my hosting company sold the business and there was a server change which we were told was merely an upgrade. So my bits were bobbed so to speak (groan – bad, bad pun). But things are now in working order so on with the show…
expanding your search horizons
It has always seemed funny to me that when searching the entire internet, people mostly confine themselves to the little textfield box on the Google page. Search techniques like boolean combinations, synonyms and controlled vocabularies are noticeably absent from the process…