General
Why I don’t use Microsoft technology
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m big on Linux, well Ubuntu to be more specific. I also have strong tendencies towards Java and open source when it comes to programming. But, it wasn’t always like that… Long ago, when I was still a lad, I was BIG on Microsoft. I guess because that’s all [...]
Stackoverflow
When Stackoverflow went in beta I was really excited. Joel & Jeff had been discussing it for a couple of months already in their pod-cast and I was kind of curious to finally see it in action. I already had an OpenId which I had never actually used so Stackoverflow gave me a chance to [...]
New hosting
Just got myself some new hosting. I used to have my stuff hosted at MDWebhosting in Melbourne and they gave me a pretty good deal. However, I came across HawkHost and I just could resist their offering. Good storage, good bandwidth, unlimited add-on domains, unlimited sub-domains, unlimited databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL), the list goes on [...]
The proprietary (in-house) CMS (revisited)
I’m sure you’ve seen them. You might even have worked with them. The company with the proprietary CMS. Almost every company that specializes in web development has some sort of self proclaimed spectacular and ground breaking CMS that was developed in-house. My opinion? Try to avoid them!
Why? You ask. Well let me explain. Say you’re [...]
eBooks
Ever since I got involved with computers (20 or so years ago) I’ve always been buying books about various subjects to extend my knowledge and learn about new things. Over the years I’ve built up quite a little collection of books and a quick peek at my bookshelf learns me that there’s about 250 or [...]
WebDU 2008
Somehow I’ve been able to get my big fat head on the WebDU about page! I’m the one looking straight into the camera and my buddy Dave is sitting right next to me. Man, that was a shock when I saw that page for the first time. Funny enough I remember that photo being taken [...]
Mate, your blog is broken…
No, its alright! I chose to go for the minimalistic theme called SandBox. Not only do I actually like this theme, it also gives me a great clean template to work from if I ever want to change the CSS for this blog myself.
I influenced Google Analytics
…or as I would like to believe. I have a number of websites for which I use Google analytics and I check the stats on a regular basis. However, ever since Google applied the “new” design I had some trouble interpreting the main visitor statistics graph.
When ever you would hover with the mouse on one [...]
First Post
So, it finally happened. My blog is online! I’ve been thinking about this for some time now and finally I’ve taken the time to set it all up (which was surprisingly easy thanks to WordPress).
What is this blog all about you might ask… Well, the purpose of this blog is more about the articles rather [...]