For a while I've had a number of subversion repositories on Dreamhost for source control. Much credit to Dreamhost, it's a doddle to setup and I've never had any reliability issues. The problem with having a remote SVN though is that it's a bit slow. So, as most of my development is done in the office, I decided to move the repositories to a local server.
I visited an old website I had been involved with yesterday. The project ran for some 3 years and it presented some very interesting challenges. It got me wondering about the quantity of code I've written over the last 10 years. It surely must amount to hundreds of thousands of lines of ASP, VB, C#, TSQL, Javascript and various other languages.
Joshua from socialmarketingstrategy.blogspot.com has just written an interesting post on the current iteration of the facebook app that we've done for Fatface.
A part of me admires them for the quirkiness and obvious "out of the box thinking" (lol), but really I can't even bring myself to read it fully. You decide have a look at "Source Force and Amazing Friends
We've just put live a major update to the simpleweb content management system.
James over at Igeek just mailed me this... Almost spot on me thinks... lol.
I went to my first Glasshouse "Second Chance Tuesday" event, I was booked in for the "Early Stage Funding Workshop" and the later event which was an interview with "Niklas Zennström who founded Kazza, Skype and Joost" (which I didn't make in the end).
Just saw this really great tip over at makeuseof.com. A lot of us use Gmail these days, we recommend it to all of our clients under the guise of Google business. It never ceases to amaze me what you can find in Gmail.
I've just been reading a tutorial at vitamin. It's a good tutorial, offering up ways to minimise the scariness of forms by grouping fields and hiding/showing them with Javascript, accordion style.
The important thing about SimpleWeb for us is that all of the websites we design use the same technology. The benefits of this for both us and the customer are massive.
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