Business No one gives a shit, unless you broke it Software development is an 18+ hour a day job. Clients pay for solved problems and don’t have much patience, some problems are difficult to solve, some are easy. Clients don’t appreciate
Business Launching a Website Business is online. Whether you like it or not, we’re living in a connected society and consumers are more enabled to do product and company research than ever before. The average household
Business Launching an App We often engage with clients who would like to launch an app or software solution. We feel it is our responsibility to make our clients aware of some of the issues pertaining to
Development Ten years on the Web Ten years ago today, I decided I was going to build a website. I started my journey by registering my first domain. I needed to get the site hosted so I signed up
Development I am an edge case After much anger, frustration, rage and ranting I had the opportunity to engage with Sam Brown, Foursquare's lead UI designer and front-end developer. He was receptive and open to critical feedback, which I
Development A case against Unbundling The news broke that Foursquare is splitting off part of their functionality to build a new app called Swarm and it got me thinking about this unbundling situation. I'm disappointed, frustrated and angry.
Development Software Night at G3ECS We had a full house tonight and started off with a quick refresh of the basics of HTML as well as how the Web Works. Rudie, was great at explaining some of the
Development Introduction to the web and some HTML basics Tonight would have been hardware night, but we had a smaller turnout than usual, due to an event at one of the high schools and we had a few new faces so we
Development 2013 kicks off with a bang The office hasn't even officially been open for a week yet and you can already sense that this year is going to be great. The team are busy with two new apps and
Business Office 2010 First Windows 7 and now Office 2010! Microsoft has really come to the party with a higher performance and truly worthwhile business productivity suite. For quite some time now, I have not been
Development Desktop Collected my new PC today and busy getting it configured. This is my first desktop so I'm seriously stoked. It's no super computer, but it's a darn lot faster when it comes to
Business MyEcommerce is Growing Today sees our team grow to ten. MyEcommerce now has a dedicated hardware and networking team, Social Media Management and SEO team and a lot of fresh project ideas. Welcome to <a
Business Windows 7 Got my Windows 7 upgrade DVD from the states a few days ago. Why it had to come from the states I'll never understand. The DVD was free but the transport was flipping
Development Google Chrome Frame My first thoughts when reading about Chrome Frame in one of Google's developer newsletters, was "Awesome we can now ditch support for IE". IMHO I feel that as a development community
Development Bing Anyone who knows me will know that I am a Google Supporter, but will also know that I am a Microsoft partner and believe that Open and Proprietary software can coexist and should.
Development Google Changing the world Ever since I opened my Gmail account I have grown to become a Google Fan. I have seen Gmail and other Google services, change and grow demonstrating a unique breed of innovation. I
Development Education System As much as I hate to say it, education is critical to success. The problem I have however is not with education but with the education system. As a country we are suffering
Business Energy Efficiency Energy efficiency is a doubled edged sword, it is not only the green way but it is the economically sustainable way. I feel that there is a lot that can be done around
Development MyEcommerce Goes Dedicated I had the privilege of ordering a dedicated server today. Core 2 Quad 2.33 GHz 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz 2 x 160GB SATA HDD H/ware RAID 1 99.9% uptime