I attended the Microsoft Mix Essentials ’08 event on the 26th of June 2008 and got two pieces of trial software, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional and Microsoft Expressions Web. Today I am installing Visual Studio, and it’s taken 20 minutes so far to install. It’s a 2.9 GB install!! The features I am most [...]
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Why would you want to use Powerpoint and Access together you may ask? I can give you a brief description of a scenario to illustrate the possible use of Access and Powerpoint, and I believe its always a good idea to narratively describe a problem (or solution) before you jump straight into it. The church [...]
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I attended the Mix Essentials 2008 event at Canal Walk (Cape Town, South Africa) today and there were quite a few things that interested me. There were five speakers at the event: David Ives – Developer and Platform Strategy Group for Microsoft in South Africa – Microsoft Brad Abrams – Group Program Manager for the [...]
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Social media is the new craze and one of the most popular platforms is Facebook. Facebook allows its users to develop applications which other users can add and use. So today I thought about a list of applications that I might use on Facebook. Applications for Facebook can generally be grouped in two areas, business [...]
Firstly determine the purpose and aim of the website. What do you want to achieve with the website? Determine the type of content you want to put on your website.Once you have determined the aim and purpose of your website you need to determine what the nature of the content on your website will be. [...]
While chilling to Armin van Buuren’s A State of Trance Episode 356 I decided to instal Wordbook, a plugin that: Use your WordPress blog to publish updates to your Profile Mini-Feed and your friends’ News Feeds. It takes a few seconds to download the WordBook plugin and a few more seconds to extract the contents [...]
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As a web developer I have not find a way of tracking my work, and creating invoices or time sheets for that work. Its often a tedious and difficult task, and I do believe if it time management is applied wisely it can greatly improve productivity. In comes Ora Time and Expense, a Flash Application [...]
One of the issues that has been plaguing me for the last couple of years is the issue of bringing the design of a website closer to the functional requirements of a website. Web development, in my opinion, involves the creation of frameworks that allow a business requirement to be effectively represented in a web-based [...]
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There are a couple of design techniques that I have not spent enough time to learn, or master. Web design is not one of my strong abilities, but it is a skill that I believe you can learn and become good at. As with a lot of things good web designs can be created by [...]
