I’ve just come back from Futurex at Sandton convention centre – its late and I haven’t got time to write a long post, so all I have to say right now is that it is a lot more impressive than I expected and the level of proffesionalism is great. Even though it is small, it [...]

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According to bokordo there are seven more reasons why web apps fail… in summary: They’re never built. They’re modeling an offline activity incompletely. They’re ahead of the curve. They don’t plan for change. They don’t charge money They have no barrier to entry…at all. They don’t think holistically. Read more at http://bokardo.com/archives/7-more-reasons-why-web-apps-fail/

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Have a look at www.remax.co.nz Yesterday we published some nice enhancements for the public front end site using some AJAX scripting. Read on for more details…

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When consulting with a new potential client, the biggest fundamental question is – “do you want to be able to update the web site yourself (lets call this “option A” or “dynamic”) or do you want to have to employ a programmer to do it for you (lets call this “option B” or “static”).” At [...]

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Get free access to Windows manuals online at http://www.helpreader.com/pages/browse/ These currently include a PHP, mySQL, Smarty and Python manuals amongst others. Useful if you have a team of developers and you don’t want to save and maintain versions on your LAN.

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Great marketing move on the part of Skype. Any chance of us getting free local calls in SA? Dream on…

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I could agree with Joshua Porter’s list more: Focus on social instead of personal. They solve too many problems, or try to. They’re about making someone other than the user happy. They sell it the wrong way. Not in it for the long haul. They show too much of what’s going on, and get gamed. [...]

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As a company with several Afrikaans engineers, the English spelling on our solutions has been an issue from time to time and part of testing has involved checking spelling. Spelling errors on web sites, blogs, intranets etc. can be rather embarrassing as they undermine credibility of both the organization and the engineers. I find the [...]

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