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Feb 1, 2007

We're movin' on up!
Posted by: Mike

For the few of you that actually know about sourcegate and use it, I am letting you know that the site will be moving and improving!

As this site was my first foray into blogging, I decided to kill two birds with one stone - learn a little about blogging, and try to collect the myriad of tech tools I have into one place.  I did that, but I was never really ready to officially "launch" it, so it remained a backburner project.

Along the way I launched a blog for a client using ExpressionEngine, and I really liked the tool, so much that I setup and launched a blog for myself, The Hot Iron, on the platform.  I have decided to move sourcegate to EE, and will do so over the coming weeks.  It will be down at this address soon.

I have temporarily moved the site to my business Web site, and you will be able to access it here for a short time:

http://www.dunkirksystems.com/sourcegate/

I will not be posting anything else until sourcegate is up on EE and I migrate the content over to the new platform.  As I write this, I noticed the RSS feeds are not working there, and I probably won't fix that... they will work on the new site, and will be using FeedBurner as does The Hot Iron.

Here's to bigger and better things!

mp/m
 
Permalink - 7:37 PM | Announcements | Send to Friend
Dec 29, 2006

Business Structures
Posted by: Mike

This is a comparison chart for the types of ways you can structure your business.  It is from a for-profit service that helps you incorporate your business, but in the site are some good resources to review:

http://www.mycorporation.com/forms.htm
 
Permalink - 8:03 AM | Business | Send to Friend
Who is using ColdFusion?
Posted by: Mike

There are many critics to the ColdFusion language.  Here's a list of non-critics - large companies around the world who use CF:

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/proven/
 
Permalink - 7:57 AM | ColdFusion | Send to Friend
So what is Web 2.0?
Posted by: Mike

Here's a good definition of Web 2.0 from book publisher O'Reilly:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
 
Permalink - 7:54 AM | Web Design - General | Send to Friend
Free Domain Name Appraisal Service
Posted by: Mike

Here's a basic domain name appraisal service.  Where it only takes a few factors into consideration, compared to paid services, it is a decent quick estimator for a domain name.

http://leapfish.com/domain_name_appraisal.php
 
Permalink - 7:52 AM | Internet - General | Send to Friend
Add Digg links
Posted by: Mike

Here's how to add a link to Digg on your blog or Web site:

http://diggtheblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/integrating-digg-within-your-website.html
 
Permalink - 7:50 AM | Blog | Send to Friend
Add the NewsGator button to your blog
Posted by: Mike

Here's how to add the NewsGator button to your blog:

https://www.newsgator.com/thebutton.aspx
 
Permalink - 7:48 AM | Blog | Send to Friend
Dec 12, 2006

Free Ticket Management System
Posted by: Mike

This is for a free version of SmarterTicket, from SmarterTools, and is limited to just one user, but is free nonetheless!

http://www.smartertools.com/Products/SmarterTicket/Free.aspx
 
Permalink - 8:25 AM | Web Development - General | Send to Friend
Free Online Diagrams
Posted by: Mike

Gliffy is a free service where you can create online diagrams, similar to a product like Visio, and share them:

http://www.gliffy.com/
 
Permalink - 8:21 AM | Internet - General | Send to Friend
Time Tracking and Invoicing
Posted by: Mike

Time59 is a time tracking and invoicing service - free at first, then a monthly fee:

https://www.time59.com/login.asp
 
Permalink - 8:18 AM | Business | Send to Friend
Open Source Image Software
Posted by: Mike

Paint.net is an open-source photo and image manipultion program for Windows:

http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html
 
Permalink - 8:16 AM | Windows | Send to Friend
Web Business Contingency Plan
Posted by: Mike

A good article for your business continuity:

http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1482
 
Permalink - 8:15 AM | Business | Send to Friend
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