links for 2007-06-24
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us Sunday, June 24th at 1:19 pm
Most companies give you a terrible black & white manual with poor grammar and spelling errors. Apple recognizes that marketing and advertising doesn’t end when the money is exchanges hands.
How do you react if Amazon goes down or if Amazon decides to shut down AWS? What happens next December when a busy holiday season makes Amazon divert bandwidth from S3 to their main business, Amazon.com?
After 3 mos of no payment, I had to put a debt collection agency on a blogger who I did work for in 2006. He still owes close to $2k on a contract I steeply discounted to $2500. I found this automated Debt Collection. I’ll let you know if it works.
Mandriva has followed the lead of other Linux distributors, such as Canonical and Red Hat, in publicly spurning Microsoft’s advances for a patent protection deal.
I needed to sort some XML in C# before itterating through the document. In the end I used the XslCompiledTransform to apply an XSL stylesheet to the XML document. Works very quickly. For reference, this is how I did it.
Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special.
One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning.
Hat tip to Neil. What a fantastic technology that could absolutely help small businesses to manage phone calls without the expense of a call center.
Abhijit wrote an excellent post on the flexibility of WordPress as a feature-rich Content Management System that can be deployed for any website.
Three months ago, I met the two startup founders of Zenter, Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker, and blogged about how they wanted their online version of PowerPoint to get bought by Google.
When I viewed the new iPhone site something struck me: did Apple change the dimensions of the unit?
