For the last 3 weeks my blog has been running really, really slow. With the long weekend upon us, I decided to take some time to try and find / fix the issue. After 4 hours of poking around, it turned out to be a number of issues… I assumed that when I moved to [...]
Many web sites are built around the concepts of features, benefits are often overlooked. Site owners/developers some times confuse features with benefits and this results in an array of complications for the end user.
It’s been a very busy month for me. Fear not, Im back! Coworking Ireland has really taken off over the last month. We now have 4 active bloggers contributing to the project. Pop over to coworking.ie and take a look at some of the interesting topics being discussed. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Coworking [...]
I have been toying with the idea of coworking for some time. For anyone that hasn’t heard of coworking yet, the concept is fairly simple: “Coworking is a movement to create a community of cafe-like collaboration spaces for developers, writers and independents” The concept itself is nothing new. Freelancers and small business have always teamed [...]
Voting has now opened over at the Irish blog awards. It seems that I was nominated for Best Designed Blog!! Thanks guys! Voting will close at 5pm on Friday February 16th. A shortlist will be announced soon after and judging will decide the winner of each category. Winners will be announced at the Irish Blog [...]
Just to give you all a heads up. I will be heading down to Barcamp Tomorrow. Barcamp will be held in the ArcLabs Research and Innovation building in Waterford IT. If anyone wants to buy me a drink, It would be more than welcomed! More information can be found over at the Barcamp Wiki and [...]
Looks like a well known marketing consultant’s site has been hacked. Be warned! The hacker redirected all of Stuntdubl’s feeds to his own wordpress blog (has offensive language) Full list of sites hacked! To quote the hackers wordpress blog: Anyways, I just started the first hacking cruzade… The easy targets (WordPress blogs with register_globals=on) using [...]
After doing a bit of research on WordPress blog security I stumbled upon a wordpress Ticket #3142. This ticket describes an issue where every registered user that has logged into our blog can spy on the metadata of all other users by typing in a simple URL (This is after they sign up and activating [...]
Dole.ie provides a one stop shop for job hunters, the site spiders and indexes many of the larger Irish job sites. One of the notable features that dole.ie provide is a RSS feed. Many of the job sites that it spiders do not offer this service. According to a post over on boards.ie Webmaster/Flash forum, [...]
Jason is a strong advocate of blogging and coworking. He quite active in the Irish tech / social / startup community and is involved in organising social meetups and events.
Grannymar: I'm not a beer drinker, I only came to say I like ...
Andrew: Nice writeup Jason.
As for the entertainment, i...
Peter O`Brien: Looking forward to it Jaosn, see you there, Pete...
Leslie: How about a map for us non-Dubs and south siders t...
moiraobyrne: Count me in for Sept 22nd in Ruta. Thanks...