Category: Web Development

  • GreenQloud – 100% Green Cloud Services

    GreenQloud – 100% Green Cloud Services

    In 2007, Gartner reported that the IT industry was responsible for approximately 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions– equivalent to the aviation industry at the time. Since then the number of data centers worldwide has surpassed 500,000. This massive and growing need for energy is contributing, in a big way, to the global carbon emissions…

  • The cloud services explained

    Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts remote services with a user’s data, software, and computation.

  • Great Freeware Downloads

    Some great freeware that I wanted to share.

  • The Evolution of Website Development

    WEB 2.0 Design StandardsOver the last few years, we have seen the control in website development shift from programmers to graphic designers. This was a necessary step in the evolution of the industry simply because more companies are seeing the value in maintaining a solid corporate branding throughout all of their marketing pieces. This means…

  • The 9 Laws of Project Management (humor)

    The 9 Laws of Project Management (humor)

    If at first, you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. Two wrongs are only the beginning. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up. (Project Management…

  • Sharrre – A jQuery Plugin For Creating Social Sharing Widgets

    Sharrre – a jQuery plugin that eases creating social sharing widgets for Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Digg and Delicious. The plugin calls the social buttons on demand which is great for minimizing the number of initial requests and improving loading speeds. Any type of custom designs can be created for the widgets  (no need to use the…

  • How to use the linux tar command

    If you looking at creating a “zip” archive file under Linux, the command to use is tar. To create an archive using tar, use a command like this, which bundles all the files in the current directory that end with .c into the sourcefiles.tar file: tar cvf sourcefiles.tar *.c Achieving a directory, that creates a…

  • Disable javascript validation from my eclipse project?

    Disable javascript validation from my eclipse project?

    I have been using Eclipse for my projects, recently I run into some problems with Eclipse while going through the Two-Minute-Tutorial 5  for Android. While setting up a  new project using the Phonegap plugin for Eclipse with jQuery Mobile, I got an error with my jQuery library – after some investigation – I found that…

  • What counts as a View on video sites

    There is a video available on youtube.com by TubeMogul.com that discusses the findings of an experiment designed to test which actions trigger a “view” on popular video sharing sites. You can find the video below.

  • Was your Linkedin password hacked, check with this app

    You can check if your Linkedin account password was stolen by hackers with an app called LeakedIn: Is your password safe?.