Today marked a number of firsts for me this year but, above all, it was the first day for Lemonade 2.0. An application that will help school teachers and students be better organized both in and outside of the classroom.
03.9.10 | Development, Featured, Working in Japan | Jason
HotaruCMS is a new web project that’s being led by Nick Ramsay as an alternative to systems such as Pligg. He’s put in an incredible number of hours on the project and it’s currently sitting at version 1.0.4. I see Hotaru as an exciting project because, unlike the other projects I’ve had over the last [...]
01.28.10 | Development, HotaruCMS, Internet | Jason
It’s a pretty bold title, considering I’m just a lowly contract developer, but there are certain things that Microsoft should work hard to do before the end of this year; and preferably before the end of this week.
I’ve been a loyal Microsoft user and supporter for the last 17 years, investing an awful lot of [...]
01.4.10 | Development, Featured, Internet, Technology | Jason
Windows 7 is an impressive Operating System that offers many refinements and improvements over every previous version of the software. However, as with all new OSes, there are complications when installing some older and out-of-date hardware and software. In my case, I ran into trouble while trying to install Visual Studio 2005 on Microsoft’s latest [...]
01.3.10 | Development, Featured, Technology | Jason
As anyone who knows me will attest, I have avoided using Apple products since the Apple II was released so many years ago. Was it because of the interface? Was it because of the fanbois? Was it because of the arrogant advertising suggesting that a product containing last year’s technology is worth twice the price [...]
12.29.09 | Development, Featured, Technology | Jason
With 2010 around the corner, it seems like as good a time as any to update the look and feel of this blog to something a little less … noob. As a result, I’ve spent the bettter part of the afternoon putting together this design and making the whole thing look as professional as possible, [...]
12.27.09 | Development, Featured | Jason
It’s hard to believe that we’re in the final weeks of 2009, and even harder to believe that mobile development has only just recently started to go mainstream. If you would have asked me ten years ago when I thought the mobile development scene was going to take off, I would have said 1999. If [...]
12.9.09 | Development, Featured, Technology, Windows Mobile | Jason
GoDaddy: The company was once one of my preferred online destinations whenever I needed a domain name, but has quickly devolved into a pile of AOL-like feces; the stench of which is so detestable that a single whiff can cause instant blindness and fits of uncontrollable rage. Why, you ask, has GoDaddy gone from being [...]
11.24.09 | Development, Internet | Jason
Several years ago I worked as a freelance programmer in my spare time to earn some extra money and learn new ways to solve difficult problems. All in all, it was a lot of fun. I did have the odd run-in with customers who refused to pay or who wanted something that could be used [...]
11.1.09 | Development | Jason
Why do companies employ IT departments? Is it to help support the business process, or dictate it?
Over the last few months I’ve had some pretty disturbing conversations with various people about the role of the IT department within a rather large corporation here in Japan. It seems that at this particular company, 8% of the [...]
10.20.09 | Development, Technology, Working in Japan | Jason
With the recent number of Fail Whale’s on Twitter recently, there have been an increasing number of people that are looking to archive their Tweets elsewhere. Aside from the obvious benefit of keeping our messages regardless of what happens to this online service in the future, we can easily make every one of our Tweets [...]
08.16.09 | Development, Plugins | Jason
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