I am very excited to announce that my second article has been published in “Coastal Christian Family”. The first one was about Podcasts and this one is about Blogs. It seems relevant to post on my blog that I wrote an article about … “blogs”.
I have been working with Regular Expressions lately and this site is SO handy for testing your expressions quickly.
Gotta love it.
Love this blog entry:
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html
It sort of feels like, “finally”. I have had to justify to clients why Flash is not going to get them the sort of search results they want, even though it will have aesthetics for those that are already there. And now, we can have both worlds. I still think text is going to work out better for menus and links because of its minimal bandwidth and accessibility options -but for those things that just serve us better as flash - its nice to know that they will be visible to the engines too. At least, one engine.
Several years ago, this KB article would have been very handy. I needed it again today, so here it is:
I love this article…
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing3.html
Not a very clever title. Certainly, to be published more I will need better hooks. But I’ll work up to that. For now, I am very excited that a local publication will be printing my articles about religion and websites/technology. I have felt for a long time that in order to market vertically, I needed to prove my expertise by being published. And, although the compilation of these writings may be book worthy some day, for now, the subject just doesn’t contain enough content to warrant a book. So monthly articles will certainly do. And we have so much success building church websites that we feel it is wise to exploit that fact and grow our name in that community. Just like Amy Grant and Reliant-K, we aren’t restricting ourselves to the Christian realm, that is not part of our business model. But we are certainly excited to market to that audience. And since we do not take on projects that are morally ambiguous, we are a solid vendor for those clients. We’ll see how it works out. And I’ll refer you to those articles as they come online.
Recently sent this to a client regarding email applications…
I recently read a SitePoint Newsletter (Tribune #387) that was titled, “Why This Industry Sucks”. It outlined some points that I have been thinking for a while. Things like, how to prove you are a good developer in a sea of bad developers. I look at other people’s code all the time (when we get hired to take over a project from a failed effort) and some of it is really crap. I mean, its not modular (or object oriented) it doesn’t have any (or many) security measures in place and in general, its just thrown together. And people just want the cheapest solution possible and frankly, you get what you pay for. And it ends up costing more in the end when someone like me has to come in and try to fix it. Anyway, head over to SitePoint and check out that article, it makes a lot of sense. And the last line, “…the same challenges every business faces. We need to adapt, and make it work, or fizzle out” is true because in the light of the very challenge they describe we have found that getting certified by the vendors we trust and recommend to our clients, gives us the credibility to be hired and trusted as a new developer for our clients.