Moving an artist’s website onto Wordpress
Last month, I migrated my brother-in-law’s sculpture web site Ronald Rae Sculpture onto the Power Blog Service. Ronnie is a famous sculptor who hand carves enormous granite sculptures. They are awesome.
We have kept the way the site looks pretty much the same as the old site as this was [...]
I am back in the UK after ten days in Atlanta; four of which of which at Stompernet’s annual Internet Marketing Conference and six days holiday with family. Still jetlagged, I am now getting back to work with a head full of business strategies, online and offline marketing strategies, web design tips, SEO best practices [...]
Salutory example of basic error in moving shell scripts written on Windows on to a UNIX platform
Today was a typical day in my new, post Barclays life, in Devon.
Having fed the dogs their breakfast of Weetabix (don’t say anything), I sat down at my computer at 08:30. I had neglected my CFA studies for a couple of days this week so decided to catch up on Session 4, Private Wealth Management. [...]
Today I discovered a website that really impressed. It is called http://www.widgetbox.com
What it does it allow you to build widgets, or in my case a blog widget or blidget which produces a cool viewer of my recent posts on my creditlust.com.
It literally took under five minutes, it was intuitive and it all worked first time. [...]
Today was spent developing a couple of web pages on Spring MVC Controller technology.
I find it difficult to know what logic to put in the remote EJB’s, what to put in the controller, what to put in the service layers and then what to put in the JSP. This is how I broke it down:
HIbernate [...]
Today I spent about 12 hours getting to grips with a number of technologies:
codeigniter – a Model View Controller PHP development toolkit
simplepie – a RSS feed reader
artisteer – a page design tool that generates two sets of output such that the main web site and the Wordpress blog have the same styling
The outcome is that the [...]
Welcome all to 2009!
Today, I started on a new venture: a website and an ebook on the credit crunch and how to survive it.
The site is www.creditlust.com/blog .
Today, I
bought the domain from http://joker.com
set up the DNS to host the site at http://rackspace.com
downloaded the blog software from http://www.wordpress.org
created the database from http://www.mysql.com
styled the blog using a theme [...]
Last Tuesday night in SF, managed to win a pairs Pool tournament. First prize way an Apple IPOD shuffle, one of greatest achievements of the human race to date, 2cm by 3 cm and so much pleasure! I have downloaded a heavily restricted subset of my music, but hey, every track is a winner! A [...]
When financial data is supplied by a vendor it tends to be keyed on that vendor’s own identifier e.g. Bloomberg unique identifer, Moodys issue id, etc. Market identifiers such as SEDOL, CUSIP and ISIN are sometimes but not always supplied.
As part of the research and investment processes we want to be to identify an instrument uniquely whatever identifiers are supplied in [...]