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Yeung Will Lead Us To Victory
Credit: Cam Easdown
MAR
4
11:43 pm
Facebook introduces Timeline for Pages
Facebook’s release of timeline for pages is a move towards unifying the user experience across the two most important aspects of their site: User profiles, and page profiles. Every page owner should have a notification that warns of the March 31 cutover date – but lots of owners without doubt will already have switched over (“published” their page timeline) ahead of date!
I for one couldn’t wait – and I think timeline cover photos are one of the best things that Facebook has ever done for Pages. Here are my Facebook cover photo graphics for some of my pages!
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JAN
27
12:25 am
Scube.me Take 2
JAN
11
6:33 pm
The market for working with startups: The difficulty of being local
Is one Aussie startup hurting the success of local web developers?
For the tail end of 2011, I’ve been considering the direction that Creative Bits Design will take through 2012. During 2011, we were happy to work with any client that came to us with a problem that was solvable through a website. Mainly, clients fell into two groups – small business, and startups. Unfortunately, that’s mostly two separate lines of work; small businesses need complete, encapsulated solutions, whereas startups are after bits of contract functionality.
The problem deepens as we consider factors such as time, relative difficulty, turnover, and market for potential clients, in each line of work. Each of those factors, for instance, has different bearings depending on the line of work. However, the differences seem to compensate each other, so that no line of work has clear overall advantages. More
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JAN
3
7:02 pm
24-Hour App Challenge
Situation: Our web design business needs an effective and accessible way to keep track of hours worked. Previously we haven’t kept track; recently we’ve been using forum posts to do so, which is a clunky and inefficient way for such a simple task (too many clicks).
Mission: Develop a simple database backend to store hours worked and active projects, and a web-based frontend for both desktop browser and mobile.
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DEC
16
5:37 pm
University’s new startup scheme is a much needed local boost
The University of New South Wales recently introduced their startup-incubator program, NewSouth Innovations. It’s perhaps the single biggest action that local Universities have taken to push entrepreneurship in Sydney, where for too long, IT courses and the startup industry have not had much correlation.
The fact is that a large majority of startup founders, especially technical co-founders, are current students or recent graduates of computing degrees, such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, and IT. These courses are fantastic for working in the industry, and one fact is that they arm graduates with the problem solving and communication skills needed to become effective IT workers. What’s disappointing is that UTS teaches its IT courses in Java, and UNSW CSE teaches in C/C#, neither of which are popular as web development languages. More
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NOV
15
11:44 pm
So they say PostgreSQL is better than MySQL
By now, when a client needs a website – whether it be a a turnkey product, off a framework, or from scratch – it’s always without a doubt MySQL every time. I mean, it comes installed by default on LAMP WAMP MAMP and just about 99%* of web servers on the internet.
However. What about PostgreSQL?
I’m warming up to pgSQL now – after reading about horrendous database disasters that people running MySQL but not pgSQL seem to have. This opportunity comes at a pretty good time, since my latest project – http://scubeme.com – is a mapping-intensive web app. We’ve decided to give Kohana 3 a chance here, and conveniently enough, its ORM supports both MySQL _and_ pgSQL! Yay!
The other main reason for moving to pg for this project is PostGIS library http://postgis.refractions.net/ which my co-founder Nathan is currently getting hands-on experience with. You guessed it – it plugs into pgSQL, and enhances it as a Geographic Information System (GIS).
I’m pretty keen for some pg action!
* This claim has not been verified.
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