Marketing

Credit Crisis Vizualized

Chip on 24 February 2009 | 8 comments

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. Seemed quite interesting and easy to understand.

Social Networking

Twitter Fiasco

Chip on 23 February 2009 | 32 comments

At a closer look, Twitter seems a mere waste of time. While smoking 10 cigarettes a day, you waste both money and health. The time and money invested in smoking could be used for running and exercising. Money is saved, and health is restored. An ugly comparison with Twitter. These days bloggers are compelled to [...]

Social Networking

I'm On Twitter!

Chip on 21 February 2009 | 3 comments

Finally, I signed up for a Twitter account. I’m just giving it a try. So, if you want to follow, go ahead. I’ll try to find some time to post there frequently. I also started reading an interesting resource from Smashing Magazine, Tips to Become Successful with Twitter. I just want to see what will [...]

Branding, Marketing

Corporate Mistakes

Chip on 17 February 2009 | 23 comments

I’m talking about corporate web sites. I did the same mistakes ever and ever again. How many times have you seen a web design company website with an outdated copyright year in the footer? Countless times. This is one of them I’m sure the company is doing just fine, and the latest project just ended [...]

PHP

How To Test PHP/MySQL Offline

Chip on 16 February 2009 | 9 comments

I’m doing this for years and I know it by heart. You need Apache, PHP, MySQL and maybe some more tools and libraries if you plan to do big things. You might need GD library, mod_rewrite, Perl and some more stuff. Go ahead and download Server2GO, a mature software package containing everything you need for [...]

Programming, Resources

More Progress With Butterfly Organizer

Chip on 15 February 2009 | No comments

The last months brought new features to Butterfly Organizer. Multi-user support is now fully implemented, database structure is more robust and we have a fully working, bleeding version running online. Test before you download. Also, multi-language support is up and running (unfortunately it’s still offline). The next version will still require some rough SQL update, [...]

Branding

8 Strong Corporate Features

Chip on 14 February 2009 | 7 comments

1. Logo A nice, clean logo should define a company or an individual online, no matter what. 2. Typography Typography is either part of the logo, the company/individual name, or the overall online/offline theme. 3. Colors No more than 2 colours. 2. 4. Brand The sum of many variables in the life of a company [...]

PHP

PHP GD Thumbnails

Chip on 13 February 2009 | One comment

I’m helping a friend build a CMS for a site and I needed some automatic image resizing. The only possibility was GD so I decided to use it. There are many tutorials out there teaching you how to do it, but I wrote my own function from several GD functions available and some php.net help. [...]

General

Switch It Off!

Chip on 12 February 2009 | 3 comments

Did you know that computer monitors, TV sets, and other electronic equipment that allows stand-by functioning still consume 45% out of the energy they would normally consume when switched on? This is a fact, and I know it for a while, but today I decided to test it at home. So, I guess I’ll let [...]

General

Memories Of A Butterfly

Chip on 11 February 2009 | 11 comments

Somewhere about 15 years ago, I started using computers and Internet. I begin by playing Quake 1 and Red Alert 1. Those were good times! Then I got bored of playing 24/7 like other people and I started delving into the secrets of HTML 3 and 4 and JavaScript. I used Netscape Composer to create [...]

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