May 5, 2009
Over the weekend I merged the old blog at ewritecork.com/blog into this blog. I didn’t put much thought into how I would merge them beforehand, I just went to the wordpress tables in the database and started to export them.
Quickly enough I realised that I’d run into a bit of work having to import the [...]
April 2, 2009
We all have Google Analytics or something similar on our websites and blogs recording info about visitors.
A part of the information that’s available is the search terms that are directing visitors to your site from Google.
I have a script running on the ewritecork.com site and blog that sends me an email every time someone searches [...]
March 30, 2009
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As part of manging my time a little better by not reacting to emails and phone calls until certain times of the day, I’ve been able to dedicate some time to working on our own software and services.
What I’d like to work on more than anything else is developing our eWrite content management [...]
March 12, 2009
Checking Google Analytics numbers I often wonder about the numbers that Google Analytics shows me about visitors or referrals to my site.
At the moment Im using Google Analytics, StatCounter, Blacknight Logs and my own PHP script to log the visitors to my site which I’ll compare at some stage to see if they all match [...]
March 11, 2009
We use Springloops to version control our ewrite software. I’ve been using it for a number of months now with excellent results. I can easily get the latest version of our code when Im on the road using my laptop, update some aspect of one of our apps and commit the changes to Springloops which [...]
February 27, 2009
This isn’t a personal blog so the posts here are usually ewrite and work related but every now and then either by accident or design some personality creeps into a post. This is one of them.
This week has been an interesting one with about a dozen reasons to be down in the dumps. Remarkably though [...]
February 25, 2009
A content management system (CMS) is an application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish content on the web, usually web pages.
There are thousands of content management systems out there and tonnes of directorys of content management systems too.
Open Source CMS is one of these directories. Its a great website allowing you to try [...]
February 17, 2009
Joblessandproud.com is a new website set up for the author David Jones who recently wrote a book after being laid off from his job.
Rather than sitting around, David wrote this book to help people in a similar situation who are looking at an uncertain financial future for the first time.
His book “Oh No: I’ve Lost [...]
February 10, 2009
Walter Higgins from Sxoop Technologies has put together a great app that users of Twitter will love, its called Twitter Mosaic. If you use Twitter, you will know that as a user you ‘follow’ people of interest you to and others ‘follow’ you if you’re interesting enough.
Walters Twitter Mosaic application allows you to compile all [...]
February 9, 2009
A few weeks ago I wrote a short post asking for advise on a temporary member of staff.
Last Friday marked the last day of Grzegorz’s 4 weeks of work experience working with eWrite. In a nutshell, I can’t praise him highly enough. From the very beginning he showed nothing but enthusiasm to get a job [...]