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Zip proximity search

Gotta love the internet and the fates, those sly greek chicas. A few days ago I came across some one’s blog posting about his articles in the Oct CFDJ. I can’t remember where I saw that, but I did download the PDF version. I didn’t read it at that time, but I scanned the cover. [...]

Skype

I give! I just installed Skype. I hate phone calls, too distracting. I’ll try out Skype. I’m j_wilker if you’re interested

SF wrap up

Flex training was great. I have a much clearer understanding of the technology and different aspects of using it. Rob Rusher is a great teacher of this course. Saw a few sites, we went to the Coit Tower one night. THe group from class was supposed to go out Salsa dancing with Rob, but I [...]

San Francisco, Day 3

Nicole and I are in SF this week. She’s working remotely, I’m attending som Flex training at Roundpeg. We flew in saturday morning, drove from San Jose to SF. Not overly impressed with the lands between the two cities. We arrived in SF and worked on finding the hotel. I hate renting cars, but Hertz [...]

And that’s why Starbucks/T-Mobile suck

I work from home, which rocks! I can work in my underwear if the mood strikes, it hasn’t… yet. Sometimes I like to get out of the house and work someplace else. Cabin fever is real people!!! It’s not people (that would be Soylent Green) , but it is real. I wanted to get the [...]

CSS

I’ve never been a big fan of CSS. No real reason, it just seemed like such a PITA. And it is really, let’s be honest. BUT I’m working on a site for a client and they want it mostly CSS. More search engine friendly and all. I know enough CSS to fill a shot glass. [...]

Search Engine Friendliness

A client of my client recently had me make their site Search Engine friendly. Was quite an interesting project. I had never really looked into SEO, and SES stuff before. Gave me a chance to get a little insight into how the search engines work in relation to dynamic sites. We used <cf_fake_url> to accomplish [...]

Scope Creep! I damn near killed her!

There really should be fines for those who indulge in either scope creep or over engineering a solution. I’m all for delivering a quality product, obviously. I’m a professional. However, delivering an over engineered solution that solves problems that people aren’t having, late, is not cool. In my experience users would rather have what they [...]

My version of Captcha

Rob Brooks Bilson has an interesting post on how CFX_captcha is (or was at the time of his post) is proving to be tough to beat. For those (are there any) that don’t know, captcha systems are those annoying little things that ask us to type in some random string of letters and numbers. As [...]

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