News & Updates
April 20, 2010
Four Corners' "Chinese Whispers" - Wake up Australia
On June 24th 2009 I wrote the blog "Please keep sending IT work off shore…. I need a new car!" Part of it highlighted the risk to National Security of not having sufficient and qualified IT skills in the future. From last night's ABC TV Four Corners ...
April 19, 2010
Lean css in javascript
This weekend I was looking at the lesscss.org project and found it very interesting. There is also a .net implementation. The basic features of these projects is to make css less verbose, they do this by offering features like mixins, variables and n ...
April 14, 2010
Javascript Tips, Tricks and Hacks
JavaScript is by far the most expressive language I use today, that expresiveness is a result of the amount of flexibility that the language gives the developer. This is also the same reason why it is so hard to develop in JS, however I will not be f ...
March 29, 2010
How to create a customer service culture
Here are some basic tips of DOs and DON'Ts on how to create a customer service culture within your organization, in particular I highlight behaviour that needs to be exhibited to achieve superior service and also what management can do to entrench th ...
March 15, 2010
Google Explorercanvas (excanvas) for IE. Silverlight vs VML
Many people do not realise that excanvas has a silverlight implementation. This implementation is apparently less stable (I have had very few issues with it) but much much faster. The only real draw back as I see it is that it requires clients to hav ...
March 10, 2010
Automatic Google Page Position Report
Overview The position of your website in the Google organic search is quickly becomming one of the most critical marketting measures. This page/script will allow you to automate this process. How To - You will get a jsapi key from google, something l ...