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Sending Yourself a Bill

By Chris on July 23, 2009

I’ve been using Billings for about a year now. It’s a great OSX application for managing clients, projects, and invoices. It’s currently $40, and for the price, it has saved me enough time to be worth it. On the downside, I’ve found it to be less than intuitive on occasion, and I’ve often had to search for a function that really should be apparent. It allows me to create custom invoices, and generate them based on project work, or even monthly invoices for hosting or maintenance.

All that is great, but I’ve begun to expand my use of the program.
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Posted in Macs, Programming, Reviews, Software | Tagged billing, clients, time | 2 Responses

Blueprint CSS Framework

By Chris on June 22, 2009

I’ve hated almost every CSS framework I have come across. I’ve always viewed CSS as something very unique to every site. Since every single view of your content involves parsing a CSS file, I feel it really needs to be as optimized as possible. CSS frameworks have always added a bunch of code that would never be used.
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Posted in ColdFusion, CSS, Programming, Web Standards | Tagged Blueprint, CSS, Design, Frameworks | 5 Responses

Apache, mod_rewrite and Sexy URLs

By Chris on June 16, 2009

99% of the people who visit a web site don’t care how it works, or how it was built. They don’t care if you’re using ColdFusion or PHP, and they don’t care if you’re using post or get variables. The remaining one percent comprises some techie types like me, and probably you, and some people with less than honourable intentions. For members of the latter group, you don’t WANT them to know what type of technology you use.

This is a good argument for URL rewriting, as is the fact that semantic and descriptive URLs assist in search engine ranking, and general usability. I rewriting my URLs because I like the way they look. I think a website looks much more polished when the URLs are descriptive, free of variable/value pairs, and as short possible.
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Posted in ColdFusion, Hosting, The Web | Tagged Apache, ColdFusion, Hosting, mod_rewrite, URL Rewriting, Web Servers | 4 Responses

Querious – MySQL Client for OSX

By Chris on June 15, 2009

This is for Mac people only – sorry Windows friends. I’ve been looking for this for a while.  Now, I’m pretty hard core, but I’m not hard-core enough to use the command line for all my interactions with MySQL.  If you’ve been using the MySQL Query Browser that can be downloaded form mysql.org, you probably know that it will crash if you breathe on it. I’ve looked at a few of the clients that have come out for MySQL, but none have made me want to shell out money to replace what I had.
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Posted in Macs, Reviews, Software | Tagged Databases, IDEs, MySQL, Software | 7 Responses

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I am a web developer in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I’ve been designing and developing websites for many years, and playing with computers since they could only be found in a lab.

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