Archive for July, 2006

Paying Yourself: From Startup and Beyond

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Have you just started your own web company? If you have, you are probably wondering how much you should be paying yourself! Entrepreneur.com has a wonderful article that might give you some great ideas on Paying Yourself From Startup and Beyond.

Using Picasa to Upload to Flickr

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

A year ago I posted my method for uploading images from Picasa to Flickr. My solution was pretty simple, but if you’re looking for a more technical solution for uploading images from Picasa to Flickr, you might want to check out this Python solution fo Using Picasa to upload to Flickr. The technique does involve some pretty advanced computer expertise (installing a programming language and running scripts) but the solution works very well! It also has the advantage of allowing you to upload your original images as opposed to my solution where the images are resized by Gmail.

Firefox Extension Development Tutorial

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Here is a comprehensive Firefox Extension Development Tutorial. The tutorial covers the following topics:

  • Development Overview
  • Environment Setup
  • Configuration Files
  • Creating GUIs
  • The Backend
  • Preferences
  • Localization
  • Distribution
  • Security

Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags looks at what makes folksonomies work. They suggest that tags are no replacement for a formal classification systems, but they see this as being the core quality that makes tagging so useful. They look at the common problem of “sloppy tags”, and ask if the folksonomy community could offset problems by creating systems that are better suited to searching, sorting and classifying.

10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

PHPBuilder.com has a list of the top 10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know. The article is separated into two parts. Part 1 has the first 5 tips and part 2 has the last five.

SEO Advice: Discussing 302 Redirects

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Google employee Matt Cutts offers some more SEO advice. This time Mat disusses 302 redirects and how you can use them to help search engines index pages.

Bugtracker Web Application for Zope

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

If you live in the world of Zope/Python, you might want to check out IssueTrackerProduct. This user-friendly issue and bugtracking web application looks to be a nice solution for tracking larger projects.

Mastering Ajax Series

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Brett McLaughlin has a 5 part series at IBM Developer works that provides a complete introduction to using AJAX technologies in your web applications…

Multi-User Blogging Platform

Friday, July 21st, 2006

The Lyceum Project is a stand-alone mutli-user blogging application that utilizes the WordPress blogging engine. This free open-source project enables stand-alone, multi-user blog services for small and high-volume environments.

Prototype 1.4 Documentation

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Here is great guide for using prototype.js v1.4.0. This site is full of great help and is probably the best online documentation for the Prototype JavaScript library.