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Make money blogging by making blogging a part of your job description 1

blogs / Tips

26 Apr, 2009

Make money blogging by making blogging a part of your job description

I have been making money blogging. A lot of money blogging. In the last 5 years I have calculated that I have earned above 70,000 USD in blogging alone. And I have managed to do so very easily and without marketing or any other related costs. The money was guaranteed every month and I got free editing and proofing services.

Here is my simple secret.

I have made Blogging a part of my job description. In the last 5 years I have been working for an open source company with only 20 employees, and for the one of the biggest and most profitable hi-tech companies in the world, with more than 80,000 employees worldwide. And they both paid me to blog as part of my job.

And you can do it too:

Will Oracle kill Java and MySQL? 4

Java / Open source / Tips

21 Apr, 2009

Will Oracle kill Java and MySQL?

Oracle is going to buy Sun and control Java and MYSQL.1
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In an interesting post in ZDNET ,Mr Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu is claimed to state that:

“.. he doesn’t seem too worried that the proprietary software company will kill Sun’s open source Java, OpenSolaris and MySQL jewels, in spite of Oracle’s hold on the database market.”

I am not sure I completely share his optimism. I am not so much worried about Java, there is no competition there. But think of it -If you were Oracle’s CEO, You just got the chance to kill the number one competitor product- Wouldn’t you want to kill MySQL?

Add your blog to the World Blog Map 0

AJAX / blogs / fun

14 Apr, 2009

Add your blog to the World Blog Map

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14 Apr, 2009

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World’s Blog Map

Want to put your blog on the map? Ever wondered where does the blog your reading come from? Where are most Bloggers Located? How would a World Blog Map look like?

Here is the first world wide map of blog sites from all over the world.
Click on the marker to find out more about the blog.

To submit your blog to the map click here.



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Feel free to view source and see how this is done.

Open source community should employ Microsoft’s business strategies 0

Microsoft / Open source / Opinion

7 Apr, 2009

Open source community should employ Microsoft’s business strategies

In one of the press conferences I attended 6 months ago, Steve Bulmer was asked “Why can’t Microsoft be cool like Apple?”

His reply was simple and to the point:

“I rather be popular than cool”

He further explained that Microsoft business strategy is to try to reach EVERYONE and not only the cool guys.

I suggest that we, as the open source community, employ the same logic:

“We rather be popular than the good and righteous”

Let me explain why we should be popular rather than right.

Effective Development Environments – Development, Test, Staging/Pre-prod and Production Environments. 12

Architecture / Best practices / Software development / Tips

31 Mar, 2009

Effective Development Environments – Development, Test, Staging/Pre-prod and Production Environments.

The following happens in many software projects –
At start, it seems you only need one environment for your web application, well, at most two:
One development environment (AKA your PC) and one server.

But as time pass, you find you need additional environments:
The clients might want their own testing environment, sometimes you need to have a pre-production environment or a staging environment, so business managers can approve the ongoing content as well as look & feel.

Do you really need these environments? What are these environment good for?

Here is a short description of some of the more popular environments and their purpose.

How much should a web site really cost? 1

Open source / Opinion / Reviews / Software development / web hosting

25 Mar, 2009

How much should a web site really cost?

Lately I have been asked by many people how much should they pay for a personal or small business website. It seems that these are good times to get some extra cash from a web initiative.

The problem is that, for most people, building and hosting a website is somewhat of a mystery. And when people treat something as a mystery they tend to over complicate it and over pay for it. Some people I talked to spent 20-100$ on simple basic hosting alone! That is, in most cases, more than what they need to pay.

How to do cross browser sanity testing in less than 5 minutes for free 1

SAAS / Software development / Tips

17 Mar, 2009

How to do cross browser sanity testing in less than 5 minutes for free

Cross browser, cross operating system testing is a costly and tedious task. Most often we test our web application on the Internet Explorer and Fire Fox installed on our machine and hope for the best. In big projects with rigid compliance requirements we test the major operating systems (Apple, Windows and sometimes a popular Linux distribution) with the major Browsers. The underline assumption is that this covers 99.x% of the population and we are happy with that. But what if we could, without additional cost, see how our web site looks like in many operating systems and multiple browsers?

10 ways to spot a good software consultant 0

Opinion / Software development / Tips

10 Mar, 2009

10 ways to spot a good software consultant


How do you spot a good software consultant? A good software consultant could be the key for your business success and bad consultants could be very damaging and counterproductive. Here are 10 cummulative ways to spot a good software consultant (can also be read as – 10 tips for the good software consultant)

He == he | she

1) He will listen to you very carefully

A good consultant knows that we were born to this world with one mouth and two ears and there is a good reason for that ratio.

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