BSD Hacks

October 17, 2005

BSD Hacks As an O’Reilly “Hacks” fan, I got myself a copy of BSD Hacks hoping to learn only a few tips and tricks. If that was the case it would have been worth it, however I greatly underestimated this title. Not only did I learn the tips and tricks one would expect from a [...]

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Firefox and Web Standards

September 26, 2005

I recently wrote an article for Macromedia’s The Edge newsletter briefly summarising the benefit of using alternative web browsers, in particular Firefox. Far from a complete look at the importance of web standards, it will hopefully expose many web designers and developers to the many resources that the Internet has to offer. The article should [...]

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SEOworkshop.com.au – SEO Training Course

September 12, 2005

I’ve just started taking bookings for a 1 day training course on the topic of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). I decided to offer this after several calls from people asking if I’d heard of anything in Melbourne I could recommend. The course will mainly cover SEO and the technologies used by various search engines, however [...]

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Reinstalling or Repairing the Windows XP Bootloader using the Recovery Console

June 25, 2005

If the Windows XP Bootloader gets erased or corrupted, you can repair it without a complete reinstall. Below describes how to do this. More useful Windows tips can be found at WindowsInternals.com. Disclaimer: Attempt this at your own risk, I assume no responsibility for any data lost. Boot from the Windows XP CDROM in to [...]

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Search Engine Positioning

June 17, 2005

Search Engine Positioning by Fredrick W. Marckini When this book was written (2001!), this title was the only book you could get on the topic. It covered lots of technical details on how each of the major engines work and lots of tips and tricks for SEO professionals or web developers alike. The world of [...]

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Web Essentials 2005 (WE05)

June 6, 2005

Molly Holzschlag, Eric Meyer, Tantek Çelik, Jeff Veen, Kelly Goto, Douglas Bowman, Derek Featherstone, Dean Jackson, Cameron Adams, John Allsopp, Russ Weakley and James Robertson. Do I really need to say any more? WE05 will be held in Sydney on September 29 and 30. It is a truly killer line-up. Check out the conference details [...]

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Broadband Troubleshooting Steps

May 29, 2005

Broadband technology (as with most information technology for that matter) has come a long way in the past few years, however expect the odd glitch now and then. There can be many reasons why Internet connectivity or web sites fail, the trick is to try and isolate where the problem is. This article describes what [...]

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Mounting an ISO as a file system in Linux

May 29, 2005

Ok, so you’ve got data on ISO’s (or CDROM) you need to access all the time, for example the images of your favourite distro. You can extract the file to directories on your hard disk, or you can directly mount them as a file system! It’s very straight forward, simply run the following command with [...]

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Disabling Screen Blanking (or turning off the root screen saver)

May 29, 2005

If you’ve got a few boxes around your workspace, you occasionally might like to be logged on as root (you normally shouldn’t be logged on as root unless you really have to, use su or sudo instead!) and watch something on one screen while working on another. No problem, until the screen blanks. Of course [...]

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Starting A User Group

May 29, 2005

This article is still ongoing. I decided to publish it because I figured it still might help some individuals even in this primitive state. First things first. What exactly is a user group? A user group is a group of people that get together by interest in a particular technology. It may be a programming [...]

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