I’ve only recently started using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (Mturk), the 6-year old brainchild of the brilliant Jeff Bezos, which allows you to assign tasks that can’t be automated through programming and requires a bit of human ingenuity. It prove that humans …

I created this as a sort of quick personal reminder to help me calm down when I get a bit carried away. I’d like to add more to help people relate, so please submit yours. It’s always fun creating a list of features that you think people “want,” in the …

When I first looking for a framework solution to build some PHP web applications on, I searched for an option that had inherent simplicity and that was well documented with the support of forums and wikis. In my first search I came across a Wikipedia entry on comparison of web…

I’d like to apologize for my long absence, I’ve been occupied by work, personal projects and family. But I will make up for it all with this juicy and informative post! This will be useful to all of you ambitious start-ups who don’t have the programming skill…

There are increasingly more threats that web developers face when protecting their software. With vigilant individuals (OWASP) highlighting the sneaky tactics of would be exploiters, majority of the vulnerabilities can be shielded against through proactive effort. In this docu…

There are several ways to go about selecting a developer for your project. In this article I will run through some techniques that I use when selecting a developer. In all honesty, it is similar to interviewing someone for a position. You want to find out about their backgroun…

The essential first step in creating a business is defining your business model which requires two steps: Realizing your customer, and defining your website accordingly. The first step in defining the business model requires you to realize who will make up your customer base, …