Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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SEOmoz Blog | Interviewing Web Developers – 20 Good Questions to Ask has a good list of questions to ask someone selling web development expertise – especially if you’re interested in hiring one.
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Today in a workshop I attended the facilitator recommended formating all documents in the Arial typeface. I winced. There’s something about Arial that just rubs me the wrong way – but I can’t guarantee that Helvetica will be available on every computer that prints out my documents. Later today I stumble across The Scourge of…
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A brief article on some new web site monitoring software that allows salespeople to monitor pretty much everything you do on a web site to tailor return sales calls to you. See The case of the spying salesman – Alpha Blog – alpha.cnet.com. I agree with the author that it breaks some sort of social…
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Problogger notes that the new version of Drupal (4.7.0) is out now. It has some nice videos on installation and features. A while back Drupal made my short list when I was looking around for a CMS. Now the new version is out I’ll have a look and compare it with Mambo (another on the…
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The title says it all. Go have a look at TechToolBlog » 195 Free Online Programming Books.
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Karl, Kim’s cousin and web developer, makes it onto one of Wired.com’s tech blogs at Monkey Bites : Charles the Debugger with his incredibly useful web proxy debugger and testing tool : Charles : Web Debugging Proxy | HTTP Monitor | HTTP Proxy | HTTPS/SSL Proxy | Reverse Proxy. One of its features is to…
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Back last September I posted about the Nature comparative survey of Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica (see Greenflame: Who’re you going to call (or rather, look up)?). Now it looks as if things are getting a bit nastier with Britannica taking out newspaper ads against Nature and its survey. See, The Times : Britannica hits…
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After various third-party claims of installing and running Windows XP on the new Apple Intel-based systems Apple come out with an official dual-boot solution. It’s not particularly graceful – Windows will need a separate disk partition and it won’t run Windows simultaneously with OS X (a la Virtual PC or similar) – but it’s officially…
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The journal Nature has a special issue on the future of computing at looking at the next 15 years. Future of Computing: Web focus : Nature. Currently the articles are available as free content.
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Article on computer gaming promoting creativity and stimulating the imagination at Wired 14.04: Dream Machines.