Since I began blogging about design for profit I’ve learned a few things about myself and about blogging. There’s more to it than just stating your mind, when you’re doing it for money essentially you’re working for the public and your job is to be as accurate, as helpful and consistent as possible. What follows [...]
April 2008
Google became an OpenID provider. All blogger users can use their blogger URL as OpenID to log into many OpenID supported websites or services. This is a good news. When Google first started to expend their business by introducing new products, they had a vision to provide a single ID for every computer users. But [...]

In my ten part series “Designing and Coding a WordPress Theme From Scratch” we made our own WordPress theme starting with a design in Photoshop. But now that you’ve made a theme, what about releasing it to the public? So far I’ve released two themes: Tech Blogger and Unstandard Remix). A third, my first completely [...]
Last time we talked about the sweet stuff that comes with business blogging. However, like everything else in life, there’s a flipside to the story. Let’s take a look at just a few of them. Things a Blogger has to Contend With 1. Time-consuming. Serious bloggers put in a lot of hours everyday just to [...]
Love them or hate them, regular expressions are here to stay. When it comes to quickly dealing with large blocks of data, batch processing operations or screen scraping, regular expressions are often the most effective solution. There’s just one problem, though – learning them can be as hard as learning a new language altogether. Here’s [...]
From Dell to Intel, companies have started to put up their own blogs as a new way to communicate with their customers. A lot of smaller businesses are trying to follow in their footsteps (with various levels of success). The question is: “Is it really worth it?” The Good Stuff 1. Getting Personal. Many businesses [...]


