At one time, Java seemed unbeatable. It was the language which would replace C++ in many areas and it would be the premiere language for web development. This, however, did not happen due to poor marketing by Sun and aggressive marketing by Microsoft with their own development tools. Yesterday at the JavaOne Conference, Sun announced [...]

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There are about 118 million web sites online according to the May 2007 Web Server Survey from Netcraft. Technorati claims that there are about 71 million blogs. Many of these web sites, and especially blogs, remain relatively unknown due to poor or non-existent marketing. If you build it, they won’t come. You need to let [...]

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Once again, John Chow is giving away computer hardware … it’s good to be rich! He recently had photos taken for an upcoming article in BC Business Magazine and was shown demonstrating his blog on his dual monitor system. His blog post led to many readers asking how to make a dual monitor setup in [...]

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Windows applications by default save files to the My Documents folder on drive C: This is where many people store all of their documents. The problem with this folder is that it’s on the same drive where Windows is normally installed. It’s not a good idea to store data files on drive C:. If your computer [...]

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I’m always looking for better ways to do things and I’ve spent some time thinking about how I can make blog posts an easier task. It’s not really a difficult thing to do, but the editor that comes with WordPress really isn’t that great. Web-based editors tend to be slow and sluggish. I did a [...]

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