As per usual when I go a little quiet for a few days I'm normally working on something equally as geeky as this blog. Anyway to cut a long story short this year I plan to roll out a suite of affordable web applications for other developers, my first is well underway. This is my first project built...
I was having a read around the web on the latest Internet Explorer incarnation to hit the shelves soon - Internet Explorer 8. It still amazes me that Microsoft are adding software to their browser which are supposed to give extra features, trying to encourage developers to implement these feature...
As developers we all know the highs of launching a new site, but how many of us have went through a step by step list checking off all the to-do items. The following is (in no particular order) what I normally go through before setting a site live. 1). Meaningful Page names and folder structures ...
Where does a company like Google move to next? They have yet to solve the problem of search, and we have seen an explosion of web 2.0 ideas, within the search field. I've already blogged about a few of the not so hot search ideas already. In my opinion there is still plenty of scope for innovation f...
1) Get loaded. Its 8.14 here in Belfast, and I've sent my girlfriend a text message to get up. Its drinking time. Get some Green Guiness down your gullet.
2) Go watch a St Paddy's day parade
All the more fun if you have adhered to point 1.So for those of you who aren't here via del.icio.us or Yahoo's UI blog, I put a post out about rich text editors that became a little popular with some folk. So what plan's do you have in place to capitalise on new traffic on your website? I'll be honest, it was unexpected for me, and I didn't expec...
NHibernate..Oh how I have struggled with you for the past day and a half or so..But eventually got there. Here's what to do with Visual Studio 2005 that they dont tell you anywhere else. In your bin folder...I have a hibernate.cfg.xml file.. Which looks like this badboy. <?xml version="1.0"...
If (and I repeat *if*) I wanted to get my website listed on Google super quick here's how I'd do it. I wouldn't guarantee 48 hours inclusion with this, but then nothing in life is guaranteed. 1). Remember backlinks are God. Create an article, a decent article and get it up on your site. Make ...
I've seen it time and time again with business in Northern Ireland, they have their branding sorted, they have their vehicle livery sorted, and this includes mr white van man. Plumbers, Electricians, Painters and Decorators, Paving Contractors Ok, so paving contractors is a bit special, I optim...
Everytime I start a new web application, I keep wondering what rich text editor Im going to use, and hunting around the web wondering which one meets my needs only wastes time, so here preserved for eternity is a list of the best of the best, if not for anything else, for my own sanity. Feel free to...
I design, develop and market a range of lovely web solutions for businesses in Ireland.
Oh and I also create some pretty awesome .NET web based products too.
