As many of you know Joomla 1.6 has officially launched. Most people will want to know what's new, how hard it is to upgrade, and if it's worth upgrading to. Our lead developer is actually part of the Joomla team (mentioned in the credits), so I figured he is a good authority to ask. Here's what he has to say:

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So, we had a bit of a crazy thing happen to us at work (Convurgency) this week. We have a very advanced website – Flash interface for people with full browsers, but then the very same content has a basic HTML rendering for mobile devices and search spiders.

We noticed some incredibly strange errors in how Google and Bing were indexing our site this week. Both went from seeing all the code and content to seeing nothing at all, a virtually blank page. (more…)

Well, if it isn't completely obvious – I haven't written a post on my blog in a very long time. Call it writer's cramp, call it being too busy, whatever, I guess I've just been too lazy!

Anyhow, it is my goal to get back to writing regularly. I'll be posting:

1. more coding tips
2. Internet Marketing tips
3. games to play
4. random stuff (like food, ok?)

So, without further delay, here's my first new programming tip. It's for Google Spreadsheets, the incredibly powerful online spreadsheet application. Not only is it extremely powerful, collaborative and free, it also allows you to make it even more powerful by using scripts. This is entirely based on JavaScript.

We needed a script that would change the font color in each row based on the value in the last column of the row. You could use this for grading, scoring, anything – it just gives you a quick way to visually differentiate which entries score higher/lower. So, here's the code to put into your Code Editor: (more…)

This is a guest-post from my friend Andre Israel. What can I say – the guy is thorough!!

I'm sure most of you have seen the infomercials for this product before, and if you were sceptical about it, let me tell you:
I was too! But you know what? All I can say now is that, based on MY experience, since I got it two days ago, I am VERY happy with it!

The sound quality seems to be as good as a regular home phone! (more…)

We were in NYC two weekends ago, and wanted to make sure that we got in one solid New York steakhouse experience. So my wife read all over for reviews, and we settled on Bobby Van's on Broad St. There were six of us that went, and if you don't want to take the time to read this post, I'll just sum it all up by saying it was an amazing culinary experience!

First of all, our server was very accommodating. We were a little late for our reservation, but there was no hassle. We conveniently booked on a Saturday evening, and were quite happy to hear that there's a promotion running – half-price bottles of wine on Friday and Saturday nights! So, this got us a nice Chianti with the appetizers and a tasty Shiraz with the entrees. (more…)