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Posts from ‘April, 2009’

My Sitecore Training Experience

Apr 24th, 2009
by Gary.
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My experience at Sitecore Content Management System Training in Mill Valley, California.

Measuring Success with Cookies

Apr 16th, 2009
by Loyan.
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As a web professional, how can you measure that your clients are pleased with what you are doing? Simple. Cookies. No not that kind of cookie. Home made delicious mouse cookies with almond ears and pretzel tails personally delivered to your office. You know you want some.
Thank you to Gloria Pozniak of Pozniak Pottery who will [...]

6 Techniques To Add Visual Interest To Page Elements

Apr 16th, 2009
by Alan.
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There’s quite a buzz out there about what’s hot in web design, and it’s always ringing in my ear when I fire up Photoshop to create a web page. Once I have chosen the appropriate look and feel for a site, such as a clean and structured business look, or a rough and textured expressive [...]

My Social Media Presentation Experience in Newport

Apr 15th, 2009
by Loyan.
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Last night Jason and I had the honor of visiting Newport to discuss social media and social networks with seventy-five business owners. That was in a nutshell: scary, rewarding, exhilarating, nervous, thrilling, insightful and intimidating. All at the same time. I have to admit that I was expecting a lower level of web savvy business [...]

Working with the PayPal API

Apr 10th, 2009
by Rob.
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So I sat down to write my proverbial “Hello World” (or better yet, “Hello Money!”) sample application to understand the work flow. Should be simple, right? Well, it was a bit more involved than I thought! Isn’t everything.

Why I Switched To GMail

Apr 9th, 2009
by Rob.
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I recently switched over to google’s free gmail client.  I’d been using Thunderbird for a couple years and really liked it. But moving to gmail has definitely simplified things for me and greatly improved the usability of email.
Here are some of the reasons I switched:
Migration was simple (from Thunderbird) – since Gmail supports IMAP I was able [...]

jQuery Is My Favorite New Tool In The Toolbox

Apr 9th, 2009
by Jason.
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Last weekend I attended BeaverBarCamp and had a great time.  This year I gave my first BarCamp talk/session called jQuery 101.  Surprisingly, the session was packed!  I should have upgraded from a “medium” room to a “large” room.  People were sitting on the floor…now that’s dedication!
It was meant to introduce people to jQuery and [...]

My Early Experience With Windows 7 On A Development Machine

Apr 2nd, 2009
by Jason.
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Windows 7 is coming. Thank goodness.
Last week my Windows XP development machine got to a point where I simply couldn’t take it anymore. Between the OS freezing after a recent Windows Update and Visual Studio getting corrupted after a futile “restore” attempt I knew it was time. If you have used Windows [...]