Google Reader recently announced that it would be closing it's doors this summer. Google Reader is a service that delivers news from a variety of feeds that I have hand-selected to keep updated on. Apparently this technology, RSS, hasn't caught on with the masses, so Google is shutting down the service.
What is catching on, however, is social sharing of news. So I find myself needing to keep abreast of information that is relevant to me, and Paper.li seems like it could fit the bill. Essentially, Read more [...]
I have spent a good portion of the last 2 months watching the stock market. In general, the market has done well. There are even a few stocks that have made a significant comeback (Nokia and Research in Motion, makers of Blackberry), doubling their worth in a matter of weeks. Watching this happen makes me want to sell everything that I have, dump it into the stock market, then pull out in a few weeks when all stocks have doubled, and make gobs of money!
However, that's a really, REALLY bad idea.
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First of all, I know that nobody asked me to write this. In fact, many may not care, but I just felt like putting my opinion out there anyway, and it will take more than 140 characters to do so.
I think it is fine that EllisLab wants to charge for support. It is their right, it takes paychecks to power the forums with support staff, and it is not really that foreign of an idea. In fact, it could provide peace of mind for many "enterprise" folks (starting to hate that word).
As far as free Read more [...]
This year I will be speaking at the ExpressionEngine/CodeIgniter Conference in Austin, TX. Much of the technical details of my talk are from a blog post that I wrote a while back on my agency’s website, and I am posting it here for quick reference for those in attendance:
Visit Guide to 404 Pages with ExpressionEngine from the Jovia Web Studio archives.
