Advice Blogs

19
Jul

Importing contacts from Facebook into Google+ Plus

by Alex

You've signed up to Google+, and are starting at a blank screen full of empty circles. If only there was a way to import your existing network from Facebook rather than having to manually copy email addresses one at a time.

28
Jun

Perfect Magento Workflow using Git

by jonathan

Magento has been gaining a lot of momentum in Australia over the last few years, and the need for us to allow developers to collaborate on projects whether they be in Perth, Melbourne or Sydney has pushed us to address a problem many web developers face with every framework they use: workflow. My main goal was to allow multiple developers to work on their own versioned copy of a project and be able to deploy Magento to multiple sites (live, staging, dev) with one click. Here's what I came up with.

18
May

99designs.com

by Simon

As online market places continue to grow, 99designs is one of the latest trends to be gaining media attention and market traction. A website developed by the guys behind Aussie company SitePoint.com, it has recently attracted a $35 million investment from Accel – one of the biggest investors in Facebook.

So what is it and what is all the fuss about?
11
Mar

Google says update your browser... so do we.

by jeremy

Google has said that it will cease support for old browsers such as Internet Explorer 6 this month.  This is a great move on their behalf and they boys at DogHouse central are over the moon with this news.
 

You can read more here:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/01/web-browser-support-for-docs-and-sites.html

And if that isn't enough then here are a few more reasons to upgrade your browser
 

25
Nov

Suppressing errors with PHP's @ operator

by Cameron

Don't do it.

I know this has been covered in various places around the Interwebs, but I'd like to add my voice to the chorus - every time you use @ to suppress a warning or error you can't be bothered dealing with, a puppy dies. There is essentially no good reason to use it, and if it ends up suppressing an unforseen yet important error, you're going to have a nightmare of a time trying to track it down.

11
Sep

Turn an old PC into a media centre with boxee

by jeremy

Years ago I purchased my first Xbox and with my love of the saying "If it’s working fine then hack it”... I of course instantly ripped it apart and mod’d it to run homebrew, a non Microsoft certified operating system. Over the following few years I found a wealth of fantastic applications that would run on my trusty mod’d Xbox, however nothing ever came close to the one killer app... XBMC or Xbox Media Center.

03
Mar

Tech job market a bit tough? Learn Linux!

by Cameron

According to this blog entry, the number of Linux-related jobs posted on Odesk's boards has increased more than 1400% since 2006. We've been Linux + OSS advocates ever since we were founded (I personally installed my first copy of Slackware in about '95), it's good to see the rest of the world finally catching up with us!

29
Jan

Web 2.0 - State of Mind?

by Simon

The concept of Web 2.0 is elusive to most of us, and keeps expanding constantly with the advent of new online services. Web 2.0 is basically a methodology of using the Internet as a platform for connecting needs with services through an ever-expanding architecture. The platform concept is important because it evokes a foundation to be further built upon, unlike the self-containment limitations that held back the original Internet.
Web 2.0 is an evolutionary platform that supports extensions as it expands. Thus, it can achieve highly complex functions using basic steps, as far as users are concerned. Developers are finding new services to integrate as the technology matures. What we see now as Web 2.0 cannot be deemed complete; it is always growing and reinventing itself.