Your client wants to work with you but is happy to use their existing hosting provider. Fine. You ask them for the FTP and/or control panel access. They don’t have a clue what that is, so you explain and then they go off  to look for it.
Days or weeks later, they send you a copy [...]

I love the idea behind the ideas Campaign!  It’s terrific – stop whinging and start acting – send in your ideas on how to solve Ireland’s economic problems.
I had an idea I wanted to share so I went over there to submit it and was dismayed to find that the website uses a third party [...]

Robot © Jack Ryan

When unemployment figures are at an all time high, it is reassuring to read that Microsoft are busy working on virtual replacements capable of multi-tasking for those who still have jobs.
Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, during a discussion about why Microsoft continues to invest in research and innovation [...]

Have you ever tried to migrate data from MS Access to MySQL?
It should be straight-forward enough. Export to Excel, then save as CSV, import to MySQL.  You will probably need to customise the format of some fields such as date or currency. Checking that all the data has slipped nicely into the correct fields takes [...]

Someone suggested to me that joining twitter is good for business.  So I did…

It’s completely insane! You ‘follow’ people, they ‘follow’ you. People ‘tweet’ stupid stuff about themselves:
‘I have a headache’, ‘I’m on the bus’, ‘I hate the rain’,  ‘I’m eating a kebab’,  ‘I love my new coffee machine’, ‘nn now’
So how is this good [...]

Wednesday’s  poll produced some interesting results. The poll was set up to find out if Cork bloggers are in fact taking over the Internet.
All Irish bloggers were invited to take part but only a fraction of visitors over the three days used their vote.

56%  of  visitors  over the last three days were from Cork and [...]

Harvey Norman Superstores in Ireland are performing catastrophically but they’re stuck here now because  “the investment is too big to pull out”.
Is there a teeny weeny chance that their in-your-face,  obnoxious, crass, shouty radio and TV ads might have contributed to their stores doing so badly in Ireland? If they were not performing well, surely at some stage somebody would [...]