www = Wild Wild West II
January 23rd, 2008
Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
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.
Viral Marketing
January 11th, 2008Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
Defined here: http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/viral-principles-clean.htm. . Fantastic article and emphasizes its point by being viral itself. I highly recommend anyone interested in making money with the web, read this.
All Table Based Layout Designers Please Read This
January 9th, 2008Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
Great presentation for those considering table based layouts. I think its an old link, but still VERY relevant. 
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/
podcast format for iTunes
January 9th, 2008Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
In case anyone is searching around on Google or Yahoo! for a character encoding format that works for iTunes - I have found that UTF-8 works great. And I use htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, “UTF-8″) to get the text formatted properly.
Also a note, that if you leave the length field empty, iTunes doesn’t display the file as an option to the consumer. It makes sense, but I just want to put it out there because after we fixed our encoding issue, we realized we had to fix a filesize() error that was occuring.
Free tip from Uncle Leroy
New Year and New web design
January 7th, 2008Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
For me, it is very refreshing and brings a sense of newness…at least during January. Once we get past February, the newness has faded and when I write the date on checks, it is more of a habit to write out the new year. But for now, lets settle into newness. And to go with that, we are launching a new website design. Thanks to Riotta.com and RyanFidler.com for helping us get this new site launched. Our hope is to bring our website look up to par with the quality of work we deliver. We had many new clients launch successful new websites and we have many more projects in the wings right now. We hope 2008 is prosperous for all our clients and wish you well.
Updated Blog Links for SEO
December 18th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
Just to let everyone know, if you are having difficulty finding a post on our website, we are moving to a new format that includes our post name in the title. So this means two changes, one is in how the posts are referenced and two is in the names. We are going to select titles that more accurately reflect the content in the post so that search engines are able to figure out what is the most important information in our posts. This is a valuable tip for everyone looking for some easy, cheap seo. Make sure your url has a search term or two that relates to the actual content of the page.
Openid.net Integration, a Necessity?
December 4th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
Now that openid.net has announced that google and microsoft are putting out products with openid included in them i guess its time to get on board. with so many technologies changing so rapidly i like to wait and watch to see how things will evolve. i think they have evolved. anytime you have google AND microsoft backing something, its got some wallup - some real umph. its momentum enough for me and we’ll start recommending it to our clients.
Increasing Productivity with Synergy (2)
November 8th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
For those of you working on more than one machine, we have found that Synergy is a remarkable tool. please visit: synergy2.sourceforge.net to skyrocket your multi-machine productivity.
In case you are wondering - yes it shares a clipboard. We have successfully used it to span Solaris/PC’s and also Mac/Win 98/Win XP systems. Very impressive.