Off to Wellington
Its been sometime updating this blog due to well being busy (as usual) and being caught up in the 22nd Feb Earthquake in Christchurch. Just a bit of an update of what we are doing and where we are heading. Firstly we are relocating to Wellington where Tim will spend his time during the day [...]
New Windows Phone 7 App coming soon
We have been developing a new Windows Phone 7 application called “Prepare Yourself” which will be in the marketplace very soon. The application helps you track items that you should have in your survival kit in case of a natural disaster. You can view the demo here
Auckland 2011 Website Hickups!
Auckland 2011 Website isn’t too bad but it has a few design flaws! Can you spot them? This appears across all browsers, look closely where the Visitor Services text is.
Techxplosion.net is live!
A group of us have been working on creating a new tech, geek, gadget site which includes news on the latest trends of all types of technology including mobile devices, smart phones, computers and a whole lot more! A special thanks to Andy at GT Solutions (www.ghozali.net), Seruni at Madcow Solutions and all the guys [...]
Spot the IT Guy!
This is soo funny but soo true? http://www.deansproperty.com.au/Home/Profiles
A way around page refreshes/back button problems with a simple concept
The problem: You have a form in which the user fills out and clicks a “submit” button that validates their input, does some processing and output’s some results. The problem being the application needs to cater for page refreshes, back buttons and the case of the page being submitted more than once (latency/slow internet connection). [...]
Facebook “like” button API rocks!
You can now add the “like” button on to your own webpage by using either their iframe html markup or using the new Javascript SDK which is more flexible than the iframe solution. You can see a live example of this on http://www.medicsafe.co.nz which uses the like button on each product listed on the website. [...]
Timaru District Council is on Youtube!
You can view the photos taken as a time lapse video from the Timaru District Council’s web cam here. I implemented the software and web cam back in the days when I was apart from the IT team, and they since have extended it further to make good use of it. Well done!
Quotes from Clients/Project Managers
Here are some quotes that clients/project managers have asked me while working in the web development industry: Can you do me a wee favour? Can you do this 10 minute job for me? I have this small problem I need you to fix This job should only take an hour! The website is broken Yes, [...]
Search any major auction site in NZ
Checkout http://www.auctionsearch.co.nz/ You can search for listings with TradeMe, Zillion and Sella all from the one site, very useful tool for looking for bargins across several systems. A very good example of using the .NET (C#) framework.
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