Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Concrete to the rescue

The second in my series of articles exploring some of the tools that really excite me or make my life as a web developer easier. In this article we explore a fantastic content management system, Concrete5 which I first used in a project last November and now once again am using to power a project for a new client.

Freelance Tools – Paymo

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the tools I use as a freelancer to make life easier for me and my clients. In this article we take a look at one of the core parts of any freelance business – effective time tracking and invoicing using the fantastic web based tool “paymo”.

Are you mobile friendly?

Most web campaigns seem to focus on the desktop user, where there is gradual trend away from desktop based web surfing to hand-held devices (smart-phones, portable Internet enabled gaming devices and PDAs) and lounge-room based devices. Over the last month alone mobile-based web surfing has risen from 0.6% of all traffic to around 1.6% of all traffic.

Cyanogen Adventures

I’ve had my HTC Magic (32B) for a month now, and figured it was time to push it a little.  Cyanogen seems to be the popular choice for this, so I went with it.  I had a very painless experience doing this, and this is how: First, get hold of the stable Cyanogen image.  I [...]

An effective social media campaign

It’s not all that often that an advertising campaign grabs my attention and actually gets me curious – it’s even less often that I see a campaign that makes effective use of social media. Even more rare than both those things, a campaign I actually feel compelled to blog about – today these things happened.