1000th Twitter follower @supjustaine
Ive been on Twitter with as @developersteve for 1 year, 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 hours at the time this post (since Feb. 25, 2011) and today i hit 1000 followers. So thank you to all my followers on Twitter and...
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Big Brother Australia Violates Facebook’s TOS
The TV reality show Big Brother is back on Australian TV and already it seems the shows producers think they are above Facebook's Terms of Service. For over a week now Big Brother Australia's Facebook page has featured a cover photo...
Nett Magazine – How to avoid dodgy web designers
“You can get any number of developers that will build things as per specifications on this page, but you want someone who’s going to sit there and go ‘Yeah, we can do that, but this is what’s going to happen...
RewriteRule in .htaccess
I was *ahem* inspired to create this meme after spending 2.5 hours getting RewriteRule working on the uWant.com.au Alpha site. Setting the rules themselves up is easy enough but getting them to work happily with code (database queries, and code...
Yarra Valley Water – Saving Water?
Savingwater.com.au is a campaign setup by Yarra Valley Water to apparently help reduce water usage, and rightly so with such a resource being wasted in years of late. Indeed even on its main website www.yvw.com.au they drive the saving water...
Nett.com.au interview on business tablet use
Steven Cooper, senior developer at Thinktank Social, reports that his business uses tablets not just for sales presentations and demonstrations, but also for remote web and app development and continuity....
X.commerce Australian Cocktail Party
Last night i attended a cocktail party in Sydney which featured the Enigmatic Matthew Mengerink and Magento Founder Roy Ruben from the X.Commerce team....
Startup Bus Australia
Startup Bus was created in 2010 by an Australian (Woot Represent!) to help showcase the talents of the chosen "Buspreneurs" which are made up of not only developers but those with the gift of seeing opportunities in innovation where others...
Magento Convert
Ok so i am now a Magento convert, before going to the X.Commerce conference this year i really didnt like it mostly because its a pain to dev in. Well to be fair its still a pain to dev in...