Launching a Website

What are static text websites good for?
- Communicating basic ideas. Complex or layered ideas can also be shared, but this is more effective via video or WiKis which have a dynamism that holds attention better than a few paragraphs.

What will pointconsultants.com be used for?
- Primarily, the site will be used to outline our products. The first four pages cover this in varying detail. The idea of consulting and services as products is new and different for many of our clients, so a few pages covering the basics is worth while.
-Secondarily, we will post our experiences in the small business computer service industry. We will cover case studies, how we handle new technology, and the various hurdles we encounter. I think this will give us and our clients some perspective on the work we do.

January
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Gene
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When Flash is Abused

January
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China to ‘clean up’ the internet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7811550.stm

Dear China,

Please realize that this is what makes the internet so amazing. Unfiltered content is creating the next cultural movements in the world. Please go easy.

Your Friend,

Gene

December
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This may take a while….

Another great feature of retrospect - messages that mean nothing.

Suggestion - This may kinda work most of the time.

December
1
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Google Apps iCal integration official

Google Calendar, available through google as a free service or through Google Apps, now officially makes use of the CalDav standard for group calendaring. Google’s Post

You can now use Apple iCal with your Google Calendar, so you can work even when you’re offline, sync almost instantly, respond to invitations from others and see the free/busy data of your friends and coworkers.

They even made a little helper app that will get you up and running quickly. Setup Tool

November
20
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Age and Tech

Great thread at Slashdot about the advantages older tech workers (programmers in the case of the poster) have over their younger peers.

Some Choice quotes:

” I think this is exactly what the OP was talking about. Sure, you’re a huge computer nerd and can code anything and make it work, but that’s a very small part of a software dev job. Collaborating with others, sharing ideas, designing, working with customers, leveraging your position to gain resources, convincing management why you’re right, scheduling, so on and so on.. you don’t get that coding at home and you don’t get that at school. ”

and

“ Are you looking for ways to justify hiring more experienced candidates instead of less experienced candidates? Are you worried that the older folks you interview won’t outshine the younger folks like you want them to? If you want to build a successful team, you should probably just make hiring decisions based on who you think will be more successful. Your pre-interview biases can only hurt your company and the industry.”

and finally

“ Don’t forget that coding consists of 80% programming and 80% troubleshooting.”

Link to Thread

November
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Bubble Timer

The BubbleTimer app is small, straight forward, web application of a paper system.

The Paper System: Emergent Task Timer

The Web App: BubbleTimer

What does it do? You fill in little bubbles for what you did in 15 minute slots, and it adds it up. Why? Well, this is not a forever system, it is more for reviewing the times when you feel your Time is not being well spent. I like it because it is not an all inclusive anal system. If you dont fill in some bubbles? So what. Don’t want to make a category for bathroom breaks or sleep? Fine. This type of loose requirements for functionality is the quality of a universal tool, like a wrench or hammer, rather than the do-it-this-way to do it right™ “systems” we see in most web applications.