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Blogging

Me? A Professional Blogger? Yep, somewhat.

May 15, 2009
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Today I became a professional blogger for Future Shop, the Canadian technology retailer. Professional as in ‘compensated’ for my writing. No, I’ll not be leaving my most excellent day job, I’d need a bunch more of these to make blogging my sole source of income and I’m not that prolific
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Simple update adds iPhone style to your blog

April 23, 2009
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Yesterday I installed the WPTouch plugin on this blog. Basically it’s a Wordpress theme that reformats your blog so it’s much more readable on mobile devices (Android, iPhone, iPod Touch). Full list of features here.
More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design [...]

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The reasons why people follow me on Twitter

March 4, 2009

In the previous post, I started to answer the question “Why people follow me on Twitter.” I went through some background, reviewed my tweet history, and wrote a bit about my experience using Twitter’s Direct Message (DM) to ask the question.
This follow-on post gets into the actual reasons and numbers.
Over the three months I conducted [...]

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Organized: A great thing to be when guest editing at someone else’ blog

February 16, 2009

Last week I had the honour of curating One Degree’s Week in Review. My contribution: Meltdowns, Monitizaton and Monks. The week in review: Friday the 13th edition, February 2009
Quick background:
OneDegree.ca is one of Canada’s leading online publications about digital marketing, online communications and social media — penned by some of Canada’s most insightful and innovative [...]

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What to know when changing website hosts

December 3, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I found the following in an email from my webhost:
Your web hosting account for bradgrier.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for
up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
After a quick call to the [...]

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A fast and fun way to mockup almost anything

August 12, 2008

Online Mockups…easy!
Part of the regular web development cycle is the user interface mockup. I’ve worked with many different tools including Google Sketchup and Adobe Photoshop to build representations for clients.
But nothing has been as quick, easy, and fun as Balsamiq Mockup, and online (and desktop/offline) user interface mockup tool for PC, Mac and Linux.
Desktop version [...]

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Lesson learned: Relying on one of anything is bad (Gmail Down)

August 11, 2008

The online world was in a tizzy this afternoon as Google’s Gmail application crashed and burned.
Gmail and Google Apps for domains all seem impacted.
This is a breaking event so I’ll update this post when more is known. Gmail’s Blog has nothing on it, currently.
*** UPDATE ***It looks like the big brains at Gmail have [...]

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Bag Open. Cat Out. Internet in danger! OpenDNS to the rescue?

July 22, 2008

Your ISP may be vulnurable to the Multi-Vendor DNS Issue. Here’s how to tell, and a simple fix you can do to protect yourself.

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Merging domains — important things to consider when you feel the urge to merge

July 18, 2008

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A friend recently asked me for a bit of advice regarding merging two corporate domains. Two organizations, with similar or complimentary lines of business are now one. What to do about the left-over websites. A quandary.
Below I’ve outlined 6 areas to consider, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
I guess the only [...]

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Wordpress 2.6 is out — and you’re using it now.

July 17, 2008

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It was a fairly painless update (thanks to the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin), but there were a few quirks I’ve had to address:

Avatars. WP 2.6 has much better support for Avatars (images used to identify authors of comments). But, my theme doesn’t natively support them so I’ve had to maintain use of [...]

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