August 29, 2008
Last week, I decided to start writing down some of the ideas I have that might make useful additions to programmes or even apps of their own. I don’t expect that they are world changing ideas or anything I just think they are better served out there rather than in my head.
An image search engine, [...]
August 28, 2008
Damien Mulley hosted a half day training session called ‘Media Training for Tech Companies’ yesterday in the Airport hotel in Cork.
It was an excellent morning. Diving straight in, Damien gave a great talk full of practical information and techniques on how to approach the media. Damien was able to back up these techniques from [...]
August 26, 2008
The Tuesday push is part of a coordinated effort to spread the work of the Irish tech community.
Crewger is new to me so I took a look around the site to see whats available.
Watching movies is a favorite pastime of mine, its great to have a site like this with news and updates, especially for [...]
August 26, 2008
Bummer. Received an email from Seedcamp yesterday thanking me for applying and unfortunately I didn’t make the short list this year. I was pleased enough to get the email at all, last year I applied without any preparation and received no response. You get back what you put in i suppose. This year I put [...]
August 22, 2008
I often have ideas that would might make useful web apps, I’m sure I’m not the only one. Rather than write them down somewhere and loose them I’m going to write them on this blog. Perhaps there would be someone else that could run with some of them.
I’ll keep this going each Friday for the [...]
August 21, 2008
Yesterday I used OnlineMeetingRooms.com for the first time as part of James Corbetts Coffee Cooler. Online Meeting Rooms is run by Joe Garde and when I logged in, Joe himself was logged in so we had a quick chat.
I assumed it would be a little clunky especially considering my ongoing LAN/Broadband reliability issues but it [...]
August 20, 2008
A few months back I wanted to get a separate phone number for the home office so that I wouldn’t have to use the home phone for calls.
At the time I checked Skype to see if I could get a phone number for Cork. For whatever reason it wasn’t available at the time. The other [...]
August 19, 2008
A good friend and fellow developer Matt Hart has created a handy tool for helping developers find unclosed HTML tags on their sites.
HTML Tag Checker can check the HTML tags of online web pages. It will tell you how many errors there are, and highlight them within the structure of the HTML.
To date it has [...]
August 19, 2008
eWrite has been around for a number of years, operating comfortably providing software and support to a number of businesses in Ireland.
Earlier this year I started something which I’ve wanted to do for some time, I begun to make smaller versions of the various tools we have created along the way focusing on content management, [...]
August 19, 2008
To help spread the word for the Moviestar.ie Irish Web Awards 2008, eWrite have put an ad on facebook to run for 14 days.
We’ve spent only a small amount on it, $73 (50 Euro). The ad will run from Tuesday August 19th to Monday September 1st. The parameters for the Facebook ad are : $1 [...]