The goal of this post is to help establish some key questions to ask up front to ensure that joiners to our start-up are a good fit.We have limited financial resources so need to use other incentives like restricted stock agreements, options, sweat equity etc... to ensure joiners are adequately motivated and rewarded. We have … Continue reading Questions to ask potential joiners to a start-up
Tips for making your website run faster
You'll learn how to optimize CSS declarations, how to optimize JavaScript code and avoid memory leaks, how to use the best image format and prefetch resources. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/06/tips-for-making-websites-run-faster.html
UserTesting.com – Quick and affordable usability testing
I recently came across a low cost usability testing service provided by UserTesting.com They have already worked with some impressive clients including CNN and Twitter. The co-founder of Twitter said 'Use it, and your site will get better'. I would have to agree.This innovative new solution allows developers, designers and digital marketers to quickly and … Continue reading UserTesting.com – Quick and affordable usability testing
Intranet Design – Content is King
Intranet owners must realize that users appreciate substance over flash. While the system might be great to look at, this can wear thin very quickly. Flash will result in an initial spike in system use, but the majority of these are going to be "one-night stands". If you want long term success, your intranet must have more than a pretty face.
Social Graph Toolkits
A list of Social Graph Toolkits http://prefuse.org/ (Java Based toolkit) http://www.thinkmap.com/architecture.jsp (Licence required)
Digital Marketing – Use Google Ads to prospect new direct advertisers
Banner advertising and direct advertising is hard work. At a simplistic level you need to find the advertisers, approach them, sell the value of advertising on you site and negotiate terms. Many entrepreneurs will be able to come up with an initial list of target companies but often the hardest part of the sales cycle … Continue reading Digital Marketing – Use Google Ads to prospect new direct advertisers
The Green IT Perspective – Ethical Markets
I was recently referenced in an article by Ethical Markets. The article references how we suggest CIOs and IT professionals can make Green IT the core of an enterprise-wide sustainability program. http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/2009/04/08/the-green-it-perspective/
Putting the Green in search – GreenRank
I recently noticed an advert for a competition Bing was running in conjunction with Gnomdex called 'Will Code for Green' and it inspired me to think of an innovative solution that could leverage the Bing Search API.After literally 42 seconds of deep musing I arrived at a possible solution, that for now, could be called … Continue reading Putting the Green in search – GreenRank
Conditional Formatting using UltraWebGrid
A code example of how to apply conditional formatting to cells in an Infragistics UltraWebGrid control using ASP.NET 2.0 private void populateSolvents(){ SolventsCollection solvents = new SolventsCollection(); solvents.GetMulti(null); if (solvents.Count > 0){ uwg_Solvents.DataSource = solvents; uwg_Solvents.DataBind(); foreach (Infragistics.WebUI.UltraWebGrid.UltraGridRow row in uwg_Solvents.Rows.All) { if (row.Cells[1].Value.ToString() == "h2o") { row.Cells[1].Style.BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("red"); } } … Continue reading Conditional Formatting using UltraWebGrid
JQuery problems with ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel
I recently started to use JQuery on an ASP.NET 3.5 project. The JQuery worked fine until the first async postback event when it would then stop working. The postback event seems to conflict with the JQUery Ready Function. In order to resolve this you should move all affected code to within a new function called … Continue reading JQuery problems with ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel
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