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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Firefox Geographic Addon Geode Launches

Location-aware web applications powered by Geode

[/caption] This is very cool, location-aware web applications. In the very near future your next visit to Dominos, BoM or RetailMeNot will blow your mind away as the site requests your geographical location so that it can provide local content and recommendations. (more…)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

All About Google App Engine

Google App Engine Registration

[/caption] Google look set to open the same cloud computing infrastructure powering Internet behemoths like Google Analytics (Urchin), Google Earth and social networking site Orkut to web developers for free! Let the Cloud Wars begin! (more…)
Sunday, July 6, 2008

Brisbane Bar Scene Website Development

One of my favourite bars in Brisbane has no website, I find that a joke in todays online society! So, to kick things off not only am I going to build a website about the bar, I’m going to look into the possibility of a website dedicated to daily specials at each bar in and [...]
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Big Business Rewards Customer Feedback

Dominos Australia continue to set industry examples by rewarding unsolicited customer feedback. Usually a critical raised-eyebrow or “k thx bye” is deserved, making Dominos gesture push way beyond any customer expectation. (more…)
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Australian Web Industry Association

Out of chance I stumbled upon the Port80 Forums, an active and highly informed community of Australian web developers pulling the Web development’s socks up so to speak. Formerly Port 80 Inc, the Australian Web Industry Association represents businesses, individuals [...]
Friday, November 16, 2007

Creating a New cPanel Addon Site

Table of Contents Overview Logging into cPanel Creating an Addon Domain Connect to your addon domain using FTP Conclusion This is the second part in an ongoing series on creating your own kick ass website using available online tools and learning how it all works as we go. Get on board, subscribe to the full feed and tell your friends! Overview Covered in [...]
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Defining the Semantic Web across Industry Roles

The term ’semantic web’ is little understood and as an emerging technology is widely applied such like the explosion of interest expressed towards the ‘Web 2.0′ phenomenon. In simplest understanding the semantic web is: …an extension of the current Web that will allow you to find, share, and combine information more easily. It relies on machine-readable information [...]
Friday, January 5, 2007

Cascading Content

- How the content is structured Humans are impressionable, we are able to take on a very basic visual process to standardise the Internet, we’re not too fussed how a page is presented as long as content is of an appropriate height and style. Headers are given emphasis, be this a colour or increased font weight – [...]