Category Archives: Web Design

Open Mesh Networks Round 2

I posted earlier about buying a Meraki Pro Wireless Repeater. So far it’s been doing pretty well sitting in the window. This last week I’ve had over 100 people access it and most of them were not in my cafe. I’d say that’s pretty good for the first router.
Because it’s doing well I decided to [...]

DreamHost is a Nightmare!

On March 5th I purchased an account with DreamHost. I’d heard good things about them and they’re a fairly large name in the world of web hosting. Unfortunately our relationship was not meant to be.
The last two months have been pretty frustrating as DreamHost was constantly having problems and my blog was extremely slow. Even [...]

Joomla! is Cool

Update: Joomla sucks balls.
I’m reading up on Joomla! It’s a seriously kick-ass open-source application. I’m a bit miffed that I haven’t taken a closer look at it until now.
The reason I’m reading up on Joomla is because I accepted the IT Director’s position for the Alberta School of Business Students Association (BSA). It’s not a [...]

How to Give Nexopia a Jump Start

Months, maybe a year ago I made the recommendation that Nexopia develop a product to “import” profiles from other websites. This was of course brushed off as “hard to do” and “illegal” because it would require the scraping of data from other social networks. There was also the issue of privacy and our lead developer [...]

Are old software contracts devaluing my degree? Part 3

The University of Alberta is supposed to be a great school of business in Canada. However I’m slowly losing faith in it. This post is a continuation of my previous posts on my poorly run Management Information Systems class.
Since the last post we have had to create a continuation of our project websites as well [...]