creating a website in a week for jobless and proud

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 [...]

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Tuesday Push: Twitter Mosaic from Sxoop Technologies

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 [...]

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Missed opportunity for Register365 on Twitter

January 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase

For context, Twitter is “a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time”.  Sort of like a message board or the office water cooler. Anyone can join, post short messages and interact with others.
I use it often, I find it to be an excellent tool to ask questions and get feedback. When [...]

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the hosting of our sites

January 12, 2009

Over the past few months, I have moved over 12 of our customers’ domains to Blacknight hosting. This year I will be moving or recommending all customers to Blacknight.
With 60 sites and growing, the majority of our sites are hosted with Webhost.ie and have been for several years. I have enjoyed a great relationship with [...]

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Register365 Support Fail

November 9, 2008

The past few days have been particularly tough. I’ve been working on a new clients email newsletter making sure they can get their monthly newsletter into their recipients inboxes.
The clients site is hosted with Register365.  One of the measures to make sure the email gets through is to add an SPF record. To do this [...]

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Tuesday Push : Pix.ie by Marcus Mac Innes

July 29, 2008

The Tuesday push is part of a coordinated effort to spread the work of the Irish tech community.
This week, the Tuesday push is Pix.ie by Marcus Mac Innes.
A few months ago I asked a few contacts on Twitter if they could recommend a good web app for storing photos, several recommended pix.ie.

When using pix.ie, there [...]

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New blog posts to Twitter

July 15, 2008

I’ve added the ‘Twitter Updater‘ plugin to Wordpress to post updates of new blog posts to the @ewrite twitter account. If I have it set up correctly, this blog post will trigger the first update.
I’ve turned off the option to post updates if I edit a post or save a post, I don’t think they’re [...]

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