Local comedian starts online DVD portal

Local comedian, Barry Hilton, has taken the initiative and started an online DVD portal here in Port Elizabeth. Now I don’t know about you but I think this is the next best thing since sliced bread. We tend to lag behind a bit here in PE so it is great to see a new innovation [...]

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Load shedding desktop application

I just had to let everybody know about this cool desktop application I discovered that helps you keep up to date with Eskom’s load shedding schedules. If you are from South Africa, this might just be the thing you were looking for. The application is very small and sits in your system tray once installed. [...]

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Well Formed XML tags

Geeks, developers and web designers have always been known to have quite a dry (but good) sense of humor. Here is one of those inside jokes which I really consider to be a classic. I received the image below in an email stating, “Geek joke, well formed xml tags”.

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MyStFrancis, St Francis Community Website

After having moved to St Francis recently I thought it a good idea to create a community website. There aren’t really many of them around on the web so I’m kind of trying to jump the gun. St Francis is situated on the Garden Route in Eastern Cape, South Africa.I’ve Googled for St Francis Web [...]

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Web Designers in Port Elizabeth

Shame you have to have pity on the poor web designers in PE (Port Elizabeth). My good friend over at MyPE posted this article on his website for the Port Elizabeth community. Will code HTML for food. You’ve gotta feel some pity for the poor web designer. I thought to come up with another one. [...]

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People who don’t pay bills

Every now and again you meet someone who make as if they are your best friend because you can do something for them. The friendship is normally good enough until such person has milked you for what they wanted from you. When the time comes for them to return the favour, you will find a [...]

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Convert mailto links to htmlentities

As a web developer we all know that sticking mailto: links on a site without any protection is a big no-no, because of spam harvesters. Unfortunately from time to time you get clients that insist on this. I’ve noticed that some web developers insert the mailto: link by converting the whole link to htmlentities. I [...]

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Joomla! 1.5 – Dreamweaver Extension

Joomla! 1.5 has arrived. The stable version was released on 22 January 2008. If you are a web developer, you must have come across Joomla! before. The big thing is of course, customising Joomla!. It is fairly simple if you understand how the template system works. Before the new version came out I used an [...]

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Sell stuff on the web

After recently upgrading my notebook with some more memory, I was left with two RAM modules in perfect working condition. They were barely a month old. So after looking at Bid or Buy and various other sites, I discovered a forum which I have not visited for a long time, MyADSL. It’s mainly for South [...]

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27Dinner in Port Elizabeth

The 27Dinner has made it’s way to Port Elizabeth at last. If you are a web designer, developer, programmer, blogger or just an ordinary run-of-the-mill geek, you might not want to miss this event. We are very excited about this and will be sure to be there on the 27th April 2008. It will be [...]

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