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Leave It To The Professionals

Imagine this: You’re a general contractor and you’re about to start building a custom home. You show up to the work site and your client has taken it upon themselves to buy all the supplies – wood, nails, framing equipment, rental equipment, and hired all the sub-contractors. But, upon closer inspection you notice that [...]



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No More Free!

I was going to try and be clever with my title for this posting, but I felt like this maybe warranted a bit of a direct approach. I think the topic is fairly self-explanatory, so I’ll just get into it. You see it everywhere now – free this, free that, “don’t pay when you get it for free” – this needs [...]



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Rules of Programming

Learn. Learn. Learn. Everyone always questions me on why I like to build a custom CMS rather than use something packaged like WordPress or Joomla. The answer is actually quite simple; I like to learn. I strongly believe that if you’re not willing to learn how to do it on your own, then you shouldn’t be doing it in the first [...]


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10 Reason To Stop Supporting IE6

I recently read an article that was talking about how as you move into the future you shouldn’t forget the past. What they were referring to was the need to always be backwards compatible and that your website should be developed for and accessible through Internet Explorer 6, just as much as any modern browser. It raised the [...]