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jQuery 2 0 Launched and No Support for IE6 7 or 8 jQuery 2 0 was launched last week…
If Your Website Doesn t Make Sales Check Which End of the Sales Pipe has Problems I often hear small business…
Pinterest is a fantastic way to promote your Prestashop products and by adding a Pin It button to your product pages it…
Here s a great little poster with 10 lessons for marketing It s from Kissmetrics and they have extra notes on their page …
If you are a SME owner it seems that you no longer require a PC or an office to run your company if…
Using Integer Math instead of Floating Point for Speed It s a well-known fact that integer calculations are…
Which tablet is better a 7-inch or a 10-inch I often get asked which tablet is better…
The entire World now competes for business This infographic not only looks at the economic reasons what makes a city competitive but also…
Business Owner Priorities Your Health Your Family and then Your Job A few years ago someone told me the…
Twitter Followers for Your Business Go for Quality over Quantity Let s start with a little sales test …
I have read several articles and used a number of tools that tell me what the best time to tweet is but what is…
Microsoft have anounced that between today 5th March 2013 and 31 March 2013 Windows 8 Pro will be sold for…
Does your Job Suck – or is it You The Tale of the Two Ice Cream Salesmen I know two people…
Which is better: .Net v Java v PHP? I finally give the ultimate answer
Feb2013
.NET, Java, PHP, Programming
Which is better Net v Java v PHP I finally give the ultimate answer I ve been programming since…
Got a Google account and don t know what to do next Here s a little infographic that will act as a check-list…
Continuing the security theme of yesterday s blog Date of Birth should NOT be a Security Question I found this infographic describing…
Your Landing Page is probably the most important part of your website It s the first page that your potential customers see and it…
To get the the best sales possible from your eCommerce website like Magento or PrestaShop you need to understand your customers Understanding…
Magento is one of the leading eCommerce platforms around today and used by some of the major stores But you have…
Date of Birth should NOT be a Security Question Using a person s Date of Birth as a security question…
I think many of us developers dream of writing an app and then making 6 or 7 figures out of it Most of us…
By Matthew R Anderson Let s say you ve got an awesome twitter growth strategy You ve got quality content coming…
By Camille Rodriquez Buzz words come and go but some are here to stay Take for example SMM …
By Camille Rodriquez No matter what business you re in or which social media network you re on sometimes the biggest…
While to marketeers Content is King there s no doubt that the King for Content is WordPress WordPress is amazingly simple to use…
WordPress brags some 60 million users and it s not really difficult to see the appeal simple yet powerful What was once was…
The use of colour in marketing and advertising has long been understood although I ve only seen a few designers who really understand which colours…
Since Android 1 0 was released in the second half of 2008 Android has come on in leaps and bounds The mobile operating…
Big Data and the Future of Healthcare Infographic looks at to whether Heathcare can be improved and made more efficient by adopting new…
There s a big discussion around development houses at the moment and that is Should we build Native Apps or develop HTML5 apps …
What is Tizen Tizen is an Open Source Linux OS family operating system for Smartphones Tablets Netbooks …
Ultra-High Definition Television UHDTV has a resolution 4 times higher of that current HD It s available now – if you…
Incredibly there are now over 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions globally and almost a billion of them are Smartphones These are dominated…
Last time we looked at how Students use social media in education this time we look at how the Professors and the rest of…
It is hard to imagine young people without mobile phones I know my kids could never envisage life without a mobile phone and the…
Once again this year we have seen a giant leap in the adaption of technology and social media in education Ownership of mobile and…
If you want to be an entrepreneur which university should you attend There may be many billions of dollars available but some universities…
Microsoft YouthSpark is a program that aims to promote education for children by using technology in schools and to increase chances of employment by boosting…
I ve worked from home for most of the last 20 years There s many fors and against but if you can maintain…
Education can be a very expensive business these days with many University places being cancelled or postponed because the students simply can t afford…
Here s a great infographic that shows some of the best iOS Mobile Learning Apps available They have been categorised as Brain Exercises …
How safe is your PIN number The Personal Identification Number is an ubiquitous method of adding security to card and input devices yet a…
What do you use Social Media for This infographic looks at the way Educational institutions are using Facebook YouTube Twitter LinkedIn…
You probably know Zynga through Farmville Cityville Poker or one of the other fantastic on-line games that Zynga create Founded in 2007…
For most young people Social Media such as Facebook and Twitter are open places a very large part of everyday life But…
Who uses the Internet best An interesting question but the answer must vary according to the context that you are assessing Nevertheless…
These are the winners of the 2012 Innovators Awards as awarded by CampusTechnology in June 2012 The awards were given in 5 categories…
There s a number of Javascript UI frameworks around at the moment and KnockoutJS is one of the leaders It…
Schools Colleges and Universities are adopting Cloud Computing A third have already using Cloud Computing and nearly all are looking at the possibilities…
Big Data is attracting considerable interest at the moment This infographic explains how big data is being used in colleges and universities By…
ASP NET 4 5 is available and has a pile of new features ASP NET Web Forms gets a load…
Tablet computers have already had a massive impact on education and it s a no-brainer to predict that one day tablets will replace books and…
Social Media is a great way to find a college or University But it also allows the college or university to find if the…
Smartphone ownership continues to grow in the past year it has moved from under half of 18-24 year olds to more than two-thirds …
Often you need to display a grid with a list of text items stored as nText Some of these items may run into thousands…
What s the cheapest way to get computing power for employees or students Just tell them to bring their own computer It sounds…
Ever fancy sitting in front of the TV watching your favourite wizard cast all sort of spells against evil demons and…
There s no doubt that Social Media is a great tool for education However there are still many challenges for educators to overcome to…
A Teachers Guide to using Social Media
Jul2012
Education, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Social Media, Twitter
Social Media certainly has a place in the classroom one of its greatest assets is social media s ability to disseminate knowledge and information…
Zig Ziglar is one of the greatest motivational speakers of all time His friendly often humorous distinctive style is instantly recognised …
Online Courses have now become common in educational circles they are convenient flexible and relatively less-expensive At first on-line courses were…
Brian Tracy in one of the World s leading Business Trainers His work has inspired and motivated people to become self-made millionaires…
There s been a lot in the News recently about how applications can surreptitiously get personal and sensitive data from you while you are just…
OK you ve written your latest blog and it s another stunner now what No matter how good it is just…
If you re like me once the computer is on I ve got several applications open simultaneously have a number of browser windows…
After adding a nice white-on-black theme to Eclipse for my PHP work I decided I wanted a similar theme in Visual Studio 2010 for…
This is a great SEO Cheatsheet and gives you a quick checklist of what your site should confirm to if you want to improve its…
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With my association to Booking Systems with RobotBooker com I use date time formatting frequently So for convenience…
The ASUS Windows RT Tablet 600 is the World s first Windows RT consumer device Windows RT is the Windows Operating System for the…
After watching a few webinars where the speaker used his sample code in a black-background editor I decided to change my box standard black-on-white…
It s amazing how fast technologies come and go these days The first ever text message was sent in 1992 but it was around…
With the big day looming tomorrow 18th May 2012 the Facebook IPO is one of the biggest anticipated floats in history and…
Measuring the growth of and investment in the internet on a global scale is a difficult thing to do but this interesting infographic shows…
Social Media can be a key tool in promoting sales and marketing but it may also help in the post-analysis This infographic shows…
Products sold through on-line shops can get a huge boost by being tweeted and the easiest way to encourage this is to place a…
Blogging can be a great way to promote your company your product or yourself but to be successful you need to blog frequently…
Dropbox is a web based file hosting service which as started in 2007 8 by a couple of MIT graduates Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi…
LinkedIn is a business related social media site that was founded in Santa Monica California in 2003 It currently has in excess of…
It s amazing how quickly people can change a Social Media platform from one audience to another Pinterest a social network that allows…
The CIO or the IT Manager Director as they would be known in Britain have always had a crucial role in the running…
By Joe J Zim Today we ll be talking about the Chain of Responsibility Pattern This pattern decouples the sender…
Marketing has had quite a paradigm shift over the last few years Companies have moved to Social Media in a big way and…
Products sold through PrestaShop can get a huge boost by being tweeted and the easiest way to encourage this is to place a …
As a Software Developer over the years I ve have some friendly and some not so friendly banter with Web Designers…
For some reason software developers have a bit of an obsession at discussing which is the best programming language Of course it s…
by Ken Sundheim Every day I make sure to study business and learn from not only my mistakes but the mistakes…
It s that time again a new version of Windows on the horizon Microsoft Windows 8 is going to unify the desktop …
One of the biggest mistakes for bloggers is to get spelling or grammer wrong If you want readers to think you are some kind…
If you haven t seen the promotional video of the Samsung Flexible AMOLED screen technology then you should watch the short video below and be…
by Peter Nisbet If you can improve your Google listing or any other top search engine listing you will also improve…
by Les Kendall Programming Language Popularity has long been a heated subject among developers Just because a language is popular does…
by Peter Nisbet Which are best iPad or Android tablets What s the difference between them and which should…
by Peter Nisbet Shock Gasp Horror Article writing is now pointless and article marketing services are dead So…
Agile has become one of the key words in the Project Leader s vocabulary and Scrum is probably the best known methodology used in software…
We often spent a considerable amount of time effort and money to attract visitors to our website or eComerce shop but what effort…
Viral Marketing is a fantastic way to advertise and if you can get it right you may boost your product by a 1000 times more…
This is an interesting and somewhat controvertial infographic to my mind about what makes a great software engineer It s from Kissmetrics…
Bill Gates has been at the top of the World Wealth lists for many years Instead of just sitting on his wealth he and…
One of the the websites I enjoy visiting every month is the TIOBE Programming Community Index tiobe com Tiobe gives…
With over 1 2 million downloads of PrestaShop it is the world s fastest growing eCommerce platforms It is Open Source written…
We often think of Computer Programming as the process of writing software on a digital computer but actually programming started early in…
Open Source is not a modern trend it s been around since the birth of software Under various guises it has been cooperative…
In an effort to reach the top of the Google ratings in recent years the SEO chant has been Get more Links …
SEO Search Engine Optimisation is one of the most used words in marketing While most would agree that it is vitally important…
As 2011 draws to a close I d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New year …
How Google works is really an educated guess based on an analysis of search results and maybe rumours from insiders The truth is that…
In Google s quest to create the best search engine they have changed and revised their search algorithms many times over the years These…
When searching the internet we usually consider the most popular words will be searched for and the most popular results will be given But…
NASA s Curiosity is a Rover weighing almost one tonne and after it s 200 million kilometre journey to Mars there is the major…
NASA s Curiosity is a rover that will land on Mars Gale Crater some time in August 2012 At almost one tonne in weight…
Back in 1966 Gene Roddenberry s Science Fiction series called Star Trek was first shown on American TV It was not…
Illusion of Choice We all think we can choose what we see and what we hear But the reality is that a mere…
NASA s Juno spacecraft is due to reach Jupiter in 2016 and will help increase our understanding of the Jovian system In is another…
The Russian Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars has recently been launched November 8th 2011 but unfortunately has encountered problems that has seriously damaged its…
Amazon is one of the Internet s greatest success stories Formed by Jeff Bezos in 1994 Amazon became the place to buy books…
Malware viruses and other digital threats have been around since the start of the software revolution But back in the early days the…
WordPress started as a simple blogging engine written in PHP and has grown to be one of the World s most successful pieces of software…
Search Engine Optimization is one of the biggest challenges being faced by virtually every company With the simple goal of getting the visibility of…
Cloud Computing has become one of the buzz words of the last few years but in actual fact the technology has been evolving for…
Patents were originally intended to protect innovative people from having their ideas stolen but increasingly we see so much legal intervention affecting companies that…
We have been building websites since the early 1990s Maybe not that long for some things but for software technologies it s an age…
Hailed as one of the best jobs in the Software Industry a job a Google is unsurprisingly difficult to obtain More than a…
Software Piracy has happened since the birth of the software industry This Infographic charts the untold tales of the history of piracy since the…
One way in which the recession affects software developers is that old servers that should have been retired many moons ago are still in use…
Computer languages date back as far as 1957 and we ve come a long way since This Infographic takes us a little tour through…
A comparison of Javascript Frameworks and their applications Javascript Frameworks and jQuery Infographic is brought to you by WebAppers…
This Infographic tries to explain the important SEO concept of PageRank Via ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews View Larger Image…
When you drop a NET control on a page and give it an ID you may expect that the ID will be the…
Sometimes I have existing customers who need their database upgrading to a newer version – new tables or columns need to be added …
JSON is a very popular data format Although it is simple in scope it can sometimes be confusing to decode in PHP I…
by Les Kendall Many of my IT friends keep asking me to show a little information inside my apps so that they can see…
The American Debt crisis is almost unbelievably big The figures going around sound like something out of a book on astronomical data This…
WordPress is the most popular blog engine but many people customize it as a CMS system or simply as their private or corporate web…
What are the best Plugins for WordPress This Infographic shows 12 of the most popular plugins that you should consider for your website …
We use the Internet for all kinds of things browsing searching emailing tweeting social networking But how does it…
From Microsoft SnackBox Microsoft Windows Azure platform supports various Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies and provides a flexible environment and several open-source resources to develop…
From the Microsoft SnackBox site Once your PHP application is installed how can you add content to the site and customize the look…
From Microsoft SnackBox IIS and Windows have become a fantastic platform for PHP based applications Learn about the advances in technology that will…
XML Quick Intro XML extensible Markup Language is one of the most important technologies that have emerged in recent…
After a large investment in the American health care system in 2009 many Doctors and medical staff have embraced hi-tech devices such as iPads…
Google made 10 million users in the first 2 weeks and an estimated 30 million in the first month Google has now thrown…
Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners Volume 1 Authored By Addy Osmani Copyright 2011 Addy Osmani…
Is Hand-Coding Becoming Obsolete By Alan Fisher Increasingly IT managers CIOs and software developers are turning…
I ve worked with several people who brag how many names they have in their database or on their mailing lists It can be…
The days are gone when a webmaster could stick AdSense on a blog page and sit back watching the bank balance clock up the cash…
After restoring a database on WordPress and viewing the blogs I was surprised to find that I couldn t log into the Admin site…
This Infographic shows the correct way to design a blog Blogs can be a fantastic way to promote yourself your company or your…
In the mid-2000 s AdSense was a very easy way to make money In 2011 the situation is very different Google looks at…
I know this has been done many times before and there are some great widgets out there but if you need some very simple…
Social Networking With Foursquare – 3 Essential Things to Know About Foursquare By Michael R Smith Foursquare is a…
FourSquare Marketing – Making Location Based Marketing Part of Your Business Campaign By Randy G Bess Many people might…
Twitter Tools and Marketing Success Tips By Ted Sullivan So you are interested in marketing your business using Twitter…
how to get more followers on twitter Affiliate advertisement …
Leveraging Location Based Marketing – How Foursquare Is Moving In the Right Direction By Matt Bodnar Location based services…
Twitter Marketing Success Tips – Three Keys To Successfully Using Twitter For Marketing By Dawson Alexander Barber In you re interested in learning…
How To Use Foursquare For Businesses By Matt Bodnar Foursquare is a new location-based app that lets customers check-in…
10 jQuery Plugins for Enhancing Your Web Site By Michael Dorf Web design like any type of design…
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by Les Kendall I had a strange problem where a simple jQuery expression worked once only on an ASP NET page…
by Les Kendall Why not just dig some more Gold has long been a popular choice as an…
by Les Kendall LesKendall I watched BBC Horizon some time ago and was gutted to find out that Stephen…
by Les Kendall Can jQuery replace ASP NET or PHP Recently I experimented with a jQuery event calendar…
My Top jQuery Sites – Les Kendall jquery com The home of jQuery A good starting poing…
Les Kendall discusses why we need Database Transactions and gives simple examples for Microsoft SQLServer in C and VB NET …
by Charlie Cook 2007 In Mind Communications LLC all rights reserved You re in…
www asp net Microsoft s Official Site for ASP NET A mine of information tutorials …
NET Named Color Chart Ordered by Value These colours can be used safely on the web and the value and names…
NET Named Color Chart Ordered by Name These colours can be used safely on the web and the value and names…
Zen-Cart is an open-source eCommerce package derived from osCommerce When you build your site it is useful to have some kind of…
by Jonathan White You have a good website perhaps about a niche area that you specialize in or about a passionate…
Steps To Boost Your Google Ranking by Doni Underwood Let s face it There are googols of information about getting…
Many times you place a button on a form which calls an external process such as a SQL Query or some other…
Mobile Agents are units of code that are capable of running autonomously on a network node and are capable of migrating along with their…
by Charlie Cook 2007 In Mind Communications LLC all rights reserved Your marketing message or elevator…
There 8217 s a lot of people telling you how easy it is to make money on the web and they 8217…
Many times you insert a new record into a database and you need to know the ID of that record either to…
by Charlie Cook 2007 In Mind Communications LLC all rights reserved How do you explain what…
by Charlie Cook 2007 In Mind Communications LLC all rights reserved If you live in a…
By Chris Le Roy The Internet has become a haven for crooks pushers thieves and many more terms I…
Custom software has considerable advantages You get exactly what you want It works the way your company…
Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons gives his 16 rules to success in business and life 1 Get…
Telephone conversations with the IT help desk – What they really mean The problem has been reported already…
An IT manager is walking down the beach when he finds a bottle He opens the bottle and a Genie comes out…
What if Don Bradman had Played in 200 Tests I ve normalised the aggregates of some of the great players of all time to…
Even today there are problems in science engineering and business that are too big for the biggest of supercomputers causing…
