Posts Tagged ‘tools of the trade’
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.