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8 Awesome Uses for DropBox
Although only a very small part of my backup strategies post dealt with Dropbox, after using it for a second week I’ve fallen for it. Sure, it’s useful for syncing commonly used files between computers, and there’s many more files that it would be useful to have revision history on, but there’s more to it [...]
Orlando Events for this Week
If you’re in Orlando this week there’s a lot of cool stuff going on. Monday is our monthly Adogo meeting with a very interesting talk on Ajax by Brian LeGros. He’ll be going over some Ajax basics and move onto some “push” Ajax, a topic that’s extremely useful but rarely covered. A majority of ajax [...]
Blogging as a Habit
Breaking habits is a slippery slope. You work for months, or years, to build up certain behaviors that your body and mind get used to, but it only takes a few weeks to break them. Maybe you’re changing jobs or going through some major life issues, but once routines are stirred up it’s a lot [...]
Your Office: Fun or Functional?
If you’ve ever seen pictures of the crazy work environments at Pixar or Google you’ll notice that most offices/cubes are cluttered, but people obviously get a lot done there. Well, IZEA decided it was time to bring a little of that creative clutter into the office and is having it’s own cube design content — [...]
Groups know better than Google
How do you filter out what’s important to you? For knowledge that flows towards you, you have a lot more control over this. Through our feed readers we have precise control over what we follow, and through email we can filter out spam and label all mail automatically. When we go out searching for something [...]
9 Rules Accepting Submissions Today Only
If you’ve ever noticed that little leaf on my sidebar, you’re probably familiar with 9 Rules. 9 Rules is a community of bloggers focused on, you guessed it, 9 Rules. These are available in their about page, but the focus is to Love what you do and Never stop learning. If you’re even reading this [...]
Design Books for Developers
Designing the Obvious is a book I ran into at Books a Million a few months ago. Usually when I head out to bookstores I grab a handful of books and end up scanning over them for tips, maybe reading a few relevant chapters, then putting it back. Very rarely do I end up reading [...]
BarCampOrlando After Party
Izea put on a great (open bar) after party dubbed Geek Out ‘08 that bogged down their office with wet geeks. I was completely soaked from the knees down, but enjoyed geeking out in both games and tech talk. They had 2 entire rooms devoted to Rock Band, and others for Wii Sports, Smash Brothers [...]
@BarCampOrlando
I’m downtown in Orlando at BarCamp and so far overwhelmed at both the quality of the venues and the community! As someone who doesn’t trek downtown all that often, the area on Wall Street between Slingapours and One Eyed Jacks is an excellent social atmosphere. Kudos to the organizers for keeping things going.
If you’re wondering [...]
Wordpress 2.5 Worth the Upgrade?
Absolutely. Wordpress hasn’t undergone a major release in a while, and this one certainly fits the description. What do you have to look forward to in this upgrade? Here’s a few examples:
New Admin Menu that’s easier to manage
More reliable widget management. Instead of having all widgets on the page now you setup individual sidebars as [...]
