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Hoffman’s Rule

0 Comments Published 1 year, 7 months ago in design + dev, small business, sysadmin

Interesting quote:
A common rule of thumb I tell people is to target their performance goals in application design and coding so that their infrastructure (not including people) is ≤10% of an application’s revenue.
Does that mean if I’m spending 5% of revenues on application infrastructure, I’m way underspending, or making more money?

Disable Snap Previews

3 Comments Published 1 year, 7 months ago in design + dev

Q: Can I disable Snap Preview Anyhwere?
A: Yes, you can.
Goto the Snap FAQ page, wherein the second question tells you how to turn off those stupid Snap previews everyone seems so fond of putting on their website.
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This one is for Frank: Beginners Guide to .htaccess # 0 comments

12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards - Excellent article if you’re interested in this kind of stuff. # 0 comments

Microchip Cufflinks - great geek gift for Christmas at $50/pair. They’ve got lots of other cools cufflinks too. # 0 comments

8 Invaluable Wordpress Plugins! - Awesome list. Found a few I didn’t know about. # 0 comments

Shorty - TinyURL for your own server. Gonna have to install this… totally cool! Great for branding! # 0 comments

Reflection.js - Reflecting images are everywhere now. Use this Javascript class to do it to your images. # 0 comments

Del.icio.us Adobe - Adobe has a group that people save bookmarks to. Very cool. # 0 comments

Rapid Learning Rails - I am Ninja. # 0 comments

ClickTracks - free web analytics # 0 comments

Server Side Sessions are a Hack # 0 comments

50 Reasons Why More People Aren’t Using Your Website # 0 comments

Favicon from picture - Upload a photo, and they’ll create a new favicon.ico file for you to download and use for your site. Too cool. Have no idea what a favicon is? Then read this introduction. # 0 comments

Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! - totally agreed. # 1 comment

The Homepage - thoughts about designing that all important homepage from ALA. Good thoughts. # 0 comments

Converting a color photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop - neat tutorial # 0 comments

5 Tips for Organizing Your CSS - finally some tips for CSS that I understand ;) # 0 comments

Where to find good images online - good list of stock art images for sale and for free. # 0 comments

Getting Things Done with PHP # 0 comments

The Art of Innovation from Guy Kawasaki, one of those guys I’ve always wanted to call a mentor. # 0 comments

How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes - I had no idea it could be that easy. # 0 comments

WP-Cache 2.0

1 Comment Published 2 years, 8 months ago in WordPress, design + dev

I just turned on WP-Cache 2.0, because I’m getting nasty notes from my hosting company (Dreamhost) that I’m using too many resources on my shared server. I totally understand their wanting me to use less resources, so, I’m hoping this cache plugin will help… Though, I’m not 100% sure Wordpress is the thing that’s [...]

If you use Wordpress, go read parts one and two of Claire Campbell’s Customizing Wordpress series on Performancing.com. # 0 comments

Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005 - ’nuff said. # 0 comments

Web 2.0 replaces Office?

1 Comment Published 2 years, 8 months ago in design + dev, small business

I’m wondering when there will be a Web 2.0 application to replace PowerPoint.
Currently there is:
Writely, the ever capable browser based Word stand-in (I won’t call it a replacement yet, but it’s damn close) that lets you create documents that need a word-processor, share them, edit them, and publish them on the web. Cool. update: [...]

Simple means launching something - launching a new product? or a new company? pay attention to this advice: “If you find yourself talking more than walking, shut up, cut the vision in half, and launch it. You can always fill in the gaps later. In fact, you’ll know more about what gaps need to be filled after you’ve launched “half a feature” than if you tried to fill them in before launching anything.” # 0 comments

Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization # 0 comments

5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop - great tips. # 0 comments

The Five Wordpress Plugins You Want # 0 comments

Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures - pretty good advice from Kodak for those of you looking to become better photographers. # 0 comments

The Awesome Antiquated Look - cool photoshop technique. # 0 comments

BudgetLog.com - a new site, totally in development (in my spare time thank you) that’ll evenutally grow to catalog our journey into financial freedom through smart budgeting… (hopefully) ;) Go subscribe to the XML feed… you’ll like it as it develops, I think. We’ve been doing a lot of finacial planning lately, and I plan to add lots of long-form articles to the BLog (you like that? BudgetLog = BLog) as time permits… # 0 comments

- lots of good little tips that have big payoffs # 0 comments

Two Minute Photoshop Tricks - some very cool photo related tricks… # 0 comments

San Francisco in Jello - go take a look at these photos… too cool, and totally eerie… love it! # 0 comments

Budding Film Maker?

0 Comments Published 2 years, 10 months ago in design + dev, marketing + advertising, publishing + content

Here are a few links to good resources for the budding film maker:
RonDexter.com - no nonsense answers to questions about film making
The Complete EEJIT’S Guide to Film Making
No Budget Video - the making of…
Beginners Guide To Digital Video Production
Seen originally here: http://www.andyt13.com/movies.htm

Remember when Wired News redesigned in 2002, to an all CSS+XHTML design? I do. Here’s the original WiredNews.com design documents from 2002. Hat tip Douglas Bownman. # 0 comments

Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason) - fantastic advice # 0 comments

What version of Flash do I have installed?

5 Comments Published 2 years, 11 months ago in design + dev

Have you ever wondered what version of Flash you have installed?
I needed to know what version I had installed this weekend, and I found this page:
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/flash.html
If you visit that website, it’ll tell you what version I have. I have Flash 8… nice to know, and almost impossible to find out using Safari [...]

Continue using Photostack or… ?

1 Comment Published 2 years, 11 months ago in design + dev

Here’s three online photo gallery software solutions: Simple PHP Gallery, Plogger, ZenPhoto. My buddy Josh switched to ZenPhoto recently, but I haven’t asked him if he likes it yet… Plogger looks cool from a weblog integration standpoint… as does some of the future dev work for ZenPhoto…
If Noel doesn’t turn out a good upgrade [...]

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 - Jakob Nielsen brings it all home for us… # 0 comments

Nice little Mod_Rewrite Cheat Sheet for all of you .htaccess junkies. And here’s a litttle HTML Entities cheat sheet as well. # 0 comments

Unit testing is teh suck, Urr. # 0 comments

Slimstat - Statistics software built using php and mysql. # 0 comments

A Short Course in using your Digital Camera # 0 comments

Why all good programers are dumb and lazy # 0 comments

Alexander

0 Comments Published 3 years ago in design + dev, random

Great image:
Click for larger version
I just love that image. It’s from the movie Alexander in case you haven’t seen it… that image comes from a major battle almost half way through the film…
update: Just finished the 2nd half of the movie… damn good story.

Tasks Pro 1.6 beta 1 is out - I gotta check that out one day… I think it’ll make life easier by helping me keep a good strong list of stuff I need to do… # 0 comments

Fade Anything Techinque - so FAT! # 0 comments