Open Source

Stupid Shiny Ribbon in Windows Live Writer 2011

Published August 28, 2010 | By admin

It Started With Zemanta

It all started when I noticed the Zemanta Windows Live Writer Plugin had an update, so I went to the page for the update. I love Zemanta. Great tool. I have the extension installed on Chrome too. It lets me be lazy, suggests pictures, tags and links and I don’t have to think. But I saw this:

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Posted in Blogging | Tagged desktop blogging software, extensibility, open source, windows live writer 2011, wlw beta, zoundry raven | 29 Comments

Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook Review

Published June 1, 2010 | By admin

This is the third Magento book I have reviewed at this blog. The first book took a beginner through the basics of adding products to and running a Magento store and not much more. The second book was for Magento Developers interested in extending Magento’s functionality. So both of those books covered the “build it” part of running an online store with Magento. And this book covered the “and they will come” part of running your store. Read more... (1150 words, 2 images, estimated 4:36 mins reading time)

Posted in Ecommerce, Magento, Traffic | Tagged Electronic commerce, Magento, Online shopping, open source, Shopping cart | 66 Comments

How to MacGyver Yourself Some Software

Published August 14, 2008 | By admin

Other working titles for this article were “Guerilla Programming” and “How to Build Rube Goldberg Apps”, but I had to make a choice.

I fell into programming because I was broke and bored, and I knew software would speed up some of the things I do, so I learned a few languages. All you really have to learn is one major language and then you can write code in a lot of the rest, because most of the common languages are very similar. At least that has been my experience. I started with Basic on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, wrote shareware in Visual Basic 6, then went to the web with PHP. Along the way, I’ve played around with Ruby and Javascript. Read more... (1210 words, 3 images, estimated 4:50 mins reading time)

Posted in Programming | Tagged Apps, Google Code, KlipFolio, open source, Programming, Tweetdeck, Visual Basic | 14 Comments

Employee of the Month

Published March 18, 2008 | By admin

I have come to the decision that I will never hire employees. Nope. I have managed people before and I have come up with a equation that sums it up. Take the amount you can mess a job up and multiply by the number employees you have for the complete screw up potential. I’ve run into it in every job I worked. I eventually got it. I learned to dole out my potential for strategic raises and advancement. If you can’t beat them,… Read more... (1062 words, 1 image, estimated 4:15 mins reading time)