Lately, it seems the Internet is buzzing about the QR code and its potential for different applications. QR codes can be used on business cards, advertisements, printed materials and other items that users can take a snapshot of with their mobile device and it will take them to our website. This article will discuss some potential uses for QR codes so you can begin using these useful items on your own website. What is a QR Code? QR codes are basically barcodes that can hold lots of information in generated images. You can create QR codes with built-in commands… View full post »
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Best Mobile Frameworks: Our Top 5 Choices
April 13th, 2012 Leave a commentDeveloping cross-platform apps can be a daunting task; with the amount of equipment and testing required for both iPhone and Android, it can be an expensive venture as well. We’ve come up with this handy list of the best mobile frameworks to help you decide on the next cross-platform framework you’d like to use for an upcoming project! Sencha Touch One of the older development frameworks out there, Sencha Touch is no slouch when it comes to mobile development frameworks. It’s huge and expansive (though not bloated- it performs as fast or faster than some of the other frameworks out there) which… View full post »
Amazon Associates Affiliate Alternatives
July 18th, 2011 Leave a comment 4 commentsFor those Amazon affiliates living in California, a rather crushing blow has been dealt recently by California’s government. A new bill, ABX1 28, has forced all online retailers with a physical presence in the state of California to pay taxes in the state of California, and this bill rules that affiliates, such as the ones in Amazon’s affiliate program, count as a physical presence. In response, Amazon shuttered its affiliate program practically overnight and left some 25000+ affiliates floundering for a way to supplement their affiliate income. Like many California webmasters out there, we’ve had a few articles on our… View full post »
Should You Be a Hybrid? 5 Design Skills for Developers
June 24th, 2011 Leave a commentIf you watch a lot of science fiction, you might think that I’m talking about some sort of part-human, part-alien hybrid. What I’m really talking about is a hybrid of a web developer and web designer. For a long time, the two roles have been somewhat separate. Web designers often had a background in graphic design or art and focused on the front end look and feel of a web site. On the other hand, web developers had a background in computer science or software development and focused their skills on the backend development. Today’s… View full post »
How to Help IT Recruiter Get You Hired
November 23rd, 2010 Leave a commentIf you are just starting out in your IT career or trying to find a position in a slow economy, you might want to consider being a contractor or consultant. Typically, consultants are hired by IT firms and they then work on-site with the firm’s client on a specific project. Typically, a consultant’s contract will be 3-6 months in length and will specify the role they will fulfill on the client’s project. The first step to getting a contract position is to get noticed by an IT recruiter. Recruiters are not Technical IT recruiters work for IT consulting firms… View full post »
What’s Next for Twitter?
March 2nd, 2010 Leave a commentI am not a big Twitter fan and in fact wasn’t taking them seriously from the very beginning. The idea of letting people know what are you doing right now just never made sense to me, and yet here we are – at one of the vendor conferences in San Francisco last week, one of the Twitter folks declared they finally building their own data center. They’ve been hosting their services with someone else up till now. That’s great news! Who would have thought that the dumbest business idea could attract millions of unique visitors and grow… View full post »
Reason For Outage (RFO)
February 19th, 2010 Leave a comment 1 commentZDNet site was down for several hours during recent Apple’s iPad event in San Francisco. Their VP of technical operations decided to reach out to the site users and wrote a post-mortem on their blog, explaining what happened: Post mortem: Our site fail Wednesday and what went wrong. You have to give him credit for reaching out to the site users, trying to explain things on a non-technical level. One thing that immediately caught my attention was the size of this post-mortem and the content… The goal of these post-mortems, or incident reports, or RFO (Reason For Outage) as many folks… View full post »
Your Skills are Your Biggest Assets
February 1st, 2010 Leave a comment2009 has obviously been a tough year for many folks that either lost their job or have seen their salaries reduced by X percent. Several friends of mine and people I used to work with in the past, have gone through this and it was hard to swallow. It’s a terrible feeling that can de-motivate you and take back the confidence level you’ve obtained over the years of your hard work. For some, it’s a feeling of being cheated and discarded. After giving 100% of yourself to the business (or at least that’s what you thought!)… View full post »
Technorati Verification
January 27th, 2010 Leave a commentTechnorati seems to have this, IMHO, ridiculous way of verifying your blog. You have to create and publish a post just for them that contains their code. Perhaps I’m missing something here, but searching on Google for “technorati verification” yields a slue of similar posts that make no sense whatsoever. Here is the note from them: “Technorati will need to verify that you are an author of the blog by looking for a unique code. Please put the following short code 5DGGP7XBB5U8 within a new blog post and publish it. Once it is published, use the “Verify Claim Token” button… View full post »