This past Friday, myself and three others, launched a new app into the world of iOS. Sandra Molyneux, Erin Lockert, and Sharon Leyne, and I have been working on this app for about a year. This app crosses over into my personal life, as well as business.
Two years ago, my wife and I were trying to teach our kids a little more about the rich history the church has with Saints. Some of the more famous ones come to mind: St. Mary, St. Joseph, St. Christopher, things from my childhood, typical Catholic Saints. Together we couldn't remember much. Since both of us are practicing Catholics, we wanted to share this with our kids. The trouble was, there just wasn't much out there that we found useful for our 3-7 year olds, that wasn't too graphic, too long, or very 'modern'. It was also spread out all over the place, and wasn't easy to keep coming back to. We wanted something handy, something that our kids could play with.
LinkedIn is one of the most popular social networking platforms for professionals and business owners, with millions of users all over the world. It allows you to setup a profile, personal or business, to showcase yourself and connect professionally with others both in your community and far away.
BPW Saskatoon approached me a number of months back with a need for a revamp of their advertising material, specifically their sponsorship package. It wasn't that their material was terribly out of date, it was the just needed a refresh, and it needed to be done quickly. I had a open project slot and so I took it on, in exchange for some advertising time, as well as tickets to their main fundraising banquet. The main international Women's Day dinner is what really impressed me. It was a full house at TCU (a local venue, that seated over 500). Their guest speaker was Mellissa Fung. She spoke about her experience overseas, and how she is not advocating for the women (specifically in Afganistan) to have their rights, their voices heard.
Blogging can be a challenge, especially if you never experience 'daily' journaling or writing. Blogging isn't something that you can take lightly. If you want to get into blogging on your website, I would suggest that you try out weekly journaling first. It is difficult to get into. Once you get into the habit, you have proven that you would be committed to blogging. Can anyone do it, sure, but make sure you will first before you announce to the world that you are blogging.
A great place to get started is over at amylynnandrews.com. She has a great post on getting organized first. This will dramatically help you to get going. It encourages setting up easy places to store bits of information that you would like to blog about.
I been experimenting with a great tool. The Sihouette. It is a great little machine, and gives me an outlet to create objects in 3D. Here is a great little gift to my readers. It is a K-Cup holder, it can be used for Easter, or you can embelish it with whatever you want. I have included the Pink, Brown, and main pattern.
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I updated a drupal 7 install without much thought, and I didn't have a backup. Arg!!! Why would I do that? So it messed the datatables up royally, and I thought no worries, I am backed up with my server restore feature. But for some reason R1 backup was not working properly to restore, try as I might I kept coming to the same error.
AGENT: !InnoDB table Restore failed, mysql exited with error.
Occasionally, I have clients ask me to recreate a poster that they have from long, long ago. They want the fonts the same, photos etc. I have had posters, postcards, and business cards given to me. How do I know what size their fonts are. Well, I could go into math and create complex measurements after scanning at 100% and then measuring.
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- Importing of previous website content
- Web design/creative
- Joomla 2.5 Integration and customization
- Search engine optimization
- Launch on IIS platform
- Training for new Joomla system
Blogging is a fun and creative way to express your thoughts on a given topic. There are lots of howtos on the web about writing a blog but I thought that I would offer a couple of tips to help you out.
I have been saying that getting your own domain name is a must for a long time, but many people still ask that question, so let's talk about it once again. More specifically, let's list the three main reasons why having and hosting your own domain is important.
- You have greater control over your material.
When you have content, including cloud content it may or may not be 'yours'. Have you stopped to read the TOS (Terms of Service) agreements of your provider? Sometimes they sneak that little bit in there, that they have the rights, retain the rights, or just at any time can take your rights to your content from you. - Having your own domain gives you credibility.
Since Blogger is a free platform, you'll find all sorts of blogs there. Sure, there are some good ones, but the majority is low quality, and you'll have a lot of spam blogs that are created just to manipulate search engines, too.
As a result most people get suspicious as soon as they see the .blogspot on your domain name. That is why having your own domain will give an immediate dose of credibility to your site. - Hosting your own domain gives you more flexibility.
When you host your own domain name you'll have complete control regarding the software and the setup that will be used there. You'll be able to use simple HTML pages, to load a CMS like WordPress, to add special scripts and so on.
As your blog grows you'll find that this flexibility is vital, as it allows you to expand the scope of your site and generate more traffic and money.
Would you add any other reason as to why getting your own domain is vital?
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Developing and Launching Saint of the Day for Kids App for iOS
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This past Friday, myself and three others, launched a new app into the world of iOS. Sandra Molyneux, Erin Lockert, and Sharon Leyne, and I have been working on this app for about a year. This app crosses over into my personal life, as well as business.
Two years ago, my wife and I were trying to teach our kids a little more about the rich history the church has with Saints. Some of the more famous ones come to mind: St. Mary, St. Joseph, St. Christopher, things from my childhood, typical Catholic Saints. Together we couldn't remember much. Since both of us are practicing Catholics, we wanted to share this with our kids. The trouble was, there just wasn't much out there that we found useful for our 3-7 year olds, that wasn't too graphic, too long, or very 'modern'. It was also spread out all over the place, and wasn't easy to keep coming back to. We wanted something handy, something that our kids could play with.
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Blogging can be a challenge, especially if you never experience 'daily' journaling or writing. Blogging isn't something that you can take lightly. If you want to get into blogging on your website, I would suggest that you try out weekly journaling first. It is difficult to get into. Once you get into the habit, you have proven that you would be committed to blogging. Can anyone do it, sure, but make sure you will first before you announce to the world that you are blogging.
A great place to get started is over at amylynnandrews.com. She has a great post on getting organized first. This will dramatically help you to get going. It encourages setting up easy places to store bits of information that you would like to blog about.
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BPW Saskatoon
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BPW Saskatoon approached me a number of months back with a need for a revamp of their advertising material, specifically their sponsorship package. It wasn't that their material was terribly out of date, it was the just needed a refresh, and it needed to be done quickly. I had a open project slot and so I took it on, in exchange for some advertising time, as well as tickets to their main fundraising banquet. The main international Women's Day dinner is what really impressed me. It was a full house at TCU (a local venue, that seated over 500). Their guest speaker was Mellissa Fung. She spoke about her experience overseas, and how she is not advocating for the women (specifically in Afganistan) to have their rights, their voices heard.
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LinkedIn is one of the most popular social networking platforms for professionals and business owners, with millions of users all over the world. It allows you to setup a profile, personal or business, to showcase yourself and connect professionally with others both in your community and far away.
