Monthly Archives: March 2007

WebDU WebJamming

Mar
18
2007

I’m on the countdown now for , this will be my first WebDU, not that I’m a stranger to the conference scene as such (see previous post on WebDU). It’s just I have been a little bit quiet on the ColdFusion scene of late. That’s not quite work wise, but just getting to events and all the rest. Flash, well I used to love Flash and enjoyed working and coding in ActionScript. But business reality hits home. I don’t really think Flash has a place as a serious tool (flame away), it’s just I can’t find any work for people with Flash skills in the long term. Flex, well I have a love hate relationship with Flex. This is why I’m bundling myself into Sydney a day early for the Flex crash course workshop to see if I’m just missing the Flex-goodness or not.

Twitter Explosion

Mar
10
2007
Explosion!

Well its SxSWi time again, and the usual suspects have descended on Austin, Texas (USA). It’s all over Twitter, Flickr, and the blogosphere already (as I watch from the sidelines). The guys from Twitter are making a big splash this year, to the point that the Twitter has been ramped up dramatically. I suspect the downtime for Twitter the other day was more on the network realign and increase in resources front than streamlining of the application. The statistics on Twitter are just amazing on the explosion of its use.

Business Networking without Wires

Mar
7
2007

People in the web industry have often complained that they hate traditional marketing, hate cold calling, and dread using a sales team. Or themselves becoming the salesmen they despise. So what’s left that you can do to promote yourself in the business or career arena professionally. Well the only thing is networking. “Okay?!” you’re all gasping, “but networking is really bad worse than cold calling”. Well maybe you have it all wrong.

This is the basis for a Mini Talk I gave at the Port80 meeting on the 7 March 2007:

The Web Industry and Ethics

Mar
3
2007

We all face this from time to time; an ethical dilemma of what to do when a client or project request crosses one of our own self imposed ethical lines in the sand.