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Scale PHP Apps - OSCON 2006 notes

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 28th, 2006

Scale PHP Apps , 0SCON 2006 - Niall Kennedy shares his notes and podcast from

“Rasmus Lerdorf on scaling web apps with PHP”

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Microformats - An introduciton

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 28th, 2006

Microformats Introduction - Just found this great Microformats introduction.  Nick Nettleton presents the theory of Microformats in a very accessible way. Good resource to use when introducing other developers to the format.

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Microsoft Issues Tool To Block IE7 Auto Updates

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 27th, 2006

informationweek.com - “Microsoft on Wednesday released a tool that will let enterprises indefinitely postpone upgrading to the new Internet Explorer 7 browser when it debuts later this year. “

While this might slow the corporate adoption of IE7 , companies do need a way to make sure their web based systems don’t all of the sudden stop working because of any weird incompatibility issues.

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IE 7 - Microsoft to push as “high priority”

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 26th, 2006

news.com - “Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. “

Looks like you will still be able to deine the insallation.  It will be interesting to see how this effects wide spread adoption of IE 7.

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Digg Labs - Data visualization tools

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 25th, 2006

labs.digg.com - Digg.com has launched two data visualization tools that allow users to graphically view real-time site activity.  If you like sites that use treemaps to view large sets of data , you’ll want to check this site out.

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Track your part-time / contract web development jobs

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 24th, 2006

sidejobtrack.com - Basecamp like solution for your side jobs or one person design shops.

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Webvisions 2006

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 24th, 2006

Webvisions 2006

Got back from Portland on Friday. Lots of informative panels and presentations.

The Webvisions site has posted presentation notes from Matt Mullenweg’s “Scaling For Your First 100K Users“.

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Online Invoices - Blinksale.com

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 13th, 2006

Blinksale.com - “… for anyone who needs to invoice clients for services or products sold.”

Free introductory account.

Site Features:

  • Recurring invoices
  • Payment reminders
  • Customizable invoice layouts
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Resume Tracking - Online application for managing your resume

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 13th, 2006

emurse.com - Create , distribute and track your resume on-line.

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Examples of an IT Professional Blunders

Posted in Uncategorized by webtech on July 13th, 2006

Becky Roberts from TechRepublic.com on learning from your mistakes
” … The mistakes I’ve made fall roughly into three categories: technical, political, and career management.”

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