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  • How often do you type “www.”?

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    In a world where simple, clean and compact are becoming more desirable, and we pride ourselves on having short and simple website addresses, how often do you type “www.”? To briefly explain “www.”, it is what is refered to as a subdomain on the domain you are visiting. It has become the accepted convention for…

  • Content Management that enables developers

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    Content Management has always been an area of web development designed to make updating a website simple and easy for the end-user. Over time, I believe, the concept of content management systems (CMSes) has developed, in certain aspects, in a point-and-click direction. By point-and-click, I mean where developers sign into a console and click through…

  • Perch – a new lil’ CMS is on the market

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    This Monday past, I received an email from “Perch”. On opening this email, I was reminded that Perch, a new “small CMS”, has now launched. Content Management Systems being an interest of mine, I took a look into this new lil’ guy on the CMS market. Perch is lightweight and easy to install and integrate…

  • Do you use Twitter’s “Favourites”?

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    I do. The main question is, how do you use the feature? Also, where do your favourites go, and can other users view them? For those unfamiliar with the feature, it allows Twitter users to mark a tweet as a “favourite” for viewing at a later stage… kind of like an archive.

  • The 31DBBB Challenge

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    A few days ago, while reading through my Twitter stream, I came across a link to the “31DBBB Challenge”. Having seen “31DBBB” in a few tweets by various bloggers, I thought I’d see what it’s all about. The 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge is a programme run by Darren Rowse of problogger.net,…

  • Prophets preach at NetProphet ’09

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    OK, not real prophets… and not really preaching either. Either way, before I start, let me some up my experience of NetProphet ’09 in a single word: awesome! NetProphet 2009, for those who don’t know (or those South Africans who’ve been living under a digital rock for the past few weeks) is a conference that…