svn add * –force→ Continue reading “Recursively Adding Files Through SVN”
For each feature/benefit, etc, write a story
Weave narrative into telling people what it is that you do. → Continue reading “For each feature/benefit, etc, write a story”
Writing BIG Articles
In the latest DoshDosh article he not only provides good actionable (I can do this right now) information for people and their websites, but provides back-up information, links to other blogs and articles and books that he has written.
Instead of just putting together a 500 word article about something he writes a paper, of sort. Does he research and then synthesizes that information into something that is relevant to the online marketing worldf→ Continue reading “Writing BIG Articles”
A Modular Approach to Installing Eclipse Plugins
Creating a Bullet Using Text in Photoshop
Ok, so you have some text in Photoshop (on the PC, not the Mac) and you want to create a bullet, but don’t want to create some rasterized circle.
- Put your cursor where you want the bullet to render
- Press and hold the ALT key
- Type the following numbers on the number pad 0 1 4 9
- Release the ALT key and the bullet will appear
Problems with WD Caviar Green SATA Drives
I needed a couple of 1 TB SATA drives to put into external enclosures.
I have found that in many cases MicroCenter offers prices very close to that found on Amazon, and/or Buy.com. The thing that I really like about MicroCenter is that they actually have knowledgeable sales people. When seeing if the drives that I was looking for were in stock the sales associated told me that I wanted to stay away from any of the “Green” drives. In → Continue reading “Problems with WD Caviar Green SATA Drives”
bad owner name (check-names) Error in BIND 9
I added a subdomain to a zone file and when I reloaded named I noticed the following error in messages:
Oct 29 09:31:06 master named[28254]: tabordesignbuild.com.db:59: beta_live.sampledomain.com: bad owner name (check-names)
Oct 29 09:31:06 master named[28254]: zone sampledomain.com/IN: loading from master file sampledomain.com.db failed: bad owner name (check-names)
We are running BIND 9 and after doing a little searching it turns out that with the default configuration for BIND 9 underscores are now verbotten.
Evidently, if you need to include → Continue reading “bad owner name (check-names) Error in BIND 9”
Interesting Article Regarding "Freedom" of the Operating Systems on Maemo vs. Android
An article that discusses the level of freedom (User Access Rights, Cooperation and Interoperability, Presence of Closed Source Software, and Freedom in Practic) between Maemo and Android.→ Continue reading “Interesting Article Regarding "Freedom" of the Operating Systems on Maemo vs. Android”
Marketing Book Review: Purple Cow by Seth Godin
I recently finished reading Seth Godin’s Purple Cow, Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable and would strongly suggest that any business owner, manager, C-Level executive, or marketer read it.
His main thesis is that the marketing paradigm has changed and that instead of trying to market to a broad audience with traditional methods you must position, or change, your brand or company so that it highlights something that is remarkable and targets a very specific niche of early adopters. And → Continue reading “Marketing Book Review: Purple Cow by Seth Godin”
On WYSIWYIG HTML Editors and the jQuery.UI web user interface toolkit.
Building advanced web applications and frameworks often involves getting incompatible pieces from various projects to work together cohesively inside a majority of browsers. The more advanced the functionality, the more of a problem this becomes especially when you’re trying to support older and very broken browsers such as MSIE 6.0.
At the present moment, I’m involved in building a substantial ecommerce project with a desktop style interface that includes popup dialogs, drag and drop lists, multiple tabbed interfaces among other → Continue reading “On WYSIWYIG HTML Editors and the jQuery.UI web user interface toolkit.”