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Monday, February 6, 2012

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July 8th, 2007

Robertson II Grounding

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It's a very sad story but the Robertson II that I used to sail on is aground on Mink Reef off Saturna Island. I have been closely tracking this story over at bosunsmate.org
November 25th, 2005

New Web Site

As if you haden't noticed - this whole blooming web site is brand new - it's only taken 6 years for me to get around to it...
July 27th, 2011

The Google+ Real Names Policy

and how it affects Scammers, Spammers, and Trolls

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Everyone is talking about the real names policy and how it's partly there to help prevent against abuse. The sad thing is - I sincerely doubt it will do that at all. As with most proactive software controls the abusers will find a way to circumvent it and the only people that are affected are legitimate users who would appreciate some anonymity.
August 1st, 2011

Adobe Edge

Did adobe just kill Flash themselves?

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Adobe released the first preview of their new HTML5 media authoring tool called Edge. To give this a ultra-fast test-drive we wanted to see what we could produce in just 5 mins using the software for the very first time and what that output actually looks like. The results are actually quite impressive.
August 30th, 2011

Windows 7 Fresh Install Tips

Start right with some fresh install tips for Windows 7

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Having just completed a fresh install of Windows 7, it seemed fitting to share some tips for starting off right with your new (or renewed as was the case for me) system. A good fresh install for an existing system may take several days but the speed and space improvements are usually worth it every couple of years.
December 27th, 2011

Resolve to be more secure in 2012

Make a New Years Resolution you can keep and update your passwords

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This new year, protect yourself by taking a little time and updating your passwords around and about your digital world: New year = new passwords - it is well worth the time. Here are some tips for creating and managing secure, easy to remember passwords.
January 3rd, 2012

Use Klout to build your Social Network

Designed to measure your influence, Klout is also a great networking tool

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The outward focus of Klout is to measure social influence online, but it is also a great way to grow that same influence, using Klout as another place to interact and meet new people. Their +K system for assigning influence can be a great way to grow and help others do the same.
January 10th, 2012

Google Search Going Social

Google search now understands not only content, but also people and relationships

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Google is starting to do exactly what everyone thought they would and combining more and more of the content from Google+ (their new social network) directly into search results. Now they have announced that you can control your search results to include the personal "social" results and/or global results in a Google Blog Post. The important thing to consider is how all this affects you when you're seeing where your web site fits in the search results.
January 19th, 2012

What did the SOPAstrike accomplish?

after thousands of web sites went offline in protest - was anything acomplished?

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After the dust settled on what some refer to as the SOPAstrike and others are calling the largest Internet protest ever what was the result. Did it acomplish anything? All initial reports would seem to concur that is a resounding Yes!
January 29th, 2012

PHP 5.4 nearing release

Help test some of the key changes in the PHP 5.4 release candidate

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PHP 5.4 final release testing
In a recent post on Google+ the opening is laced with humor "We are in the final push to PHP 5.4 and we need your help. Everyone who is using PHP can give us a hand here, regardless of your technical abilities. Facebook employees, take a break from calculating your stock option scenarios and give us an hour of your time...."
January 30th, 2012

Google, Facebook, Pay Pal, and others: anti-phishing email protocol

Can some of the web giants work together to help stop deceptive email?

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The plan surrounds the existing systems DKIM and SPF and from a quick read seems to basically be an attempt to back and promote these existing systems with a few add-ons. To quote the dmarc.org web site "A group of leading organizations came together in the spring of 2011 to collaborate on a method for combating fraudulent email at Interenet-scale."
January 30th, 2012

Web Design in 1995

Inspired by a History of Web Design article

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The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Gold Award Society home page (c) 1995
Inspired by an article about the history of web design shared by @timothywhalin I went hunting in my archives to find the oldest web design for which I still had a copy. Since I started building sites in 1992 I wasn't sure how far back I could go - Managed to find my moldy oldies from 1995 through 1998 and though I'd share them for fun.
January 17th, 2011

PawPrint Welcomes Jacques Tredoux

New Team Member

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Jacques Tredoux
PawPrint is thrilled to welcome Jacques Tredoux as a new designer/developer to our team. Jacques returns to PawPrint after several years away in Alberta and we are thrilled to have him back in an expanded role.
January 28th, 2011

Mobile Friendly HTML5 Video

New automatic video converter makes uploading modern video easy

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The video upload dialog
By 2014 (or some say even earlier) more people may browse web sites on mobile devices then using desktop computers. As video becomes a key content element, it is essential that web sites can deliver video to all devices. Until now, the process to provide that level of compatibility has been very complicated. The PawPrint AVC (Automatic Video Converter) is going to change that.
February 11th, 2011

Minor Softball Gets a Web Re-design

www.secheltminorsoftball.ca gets a new look donated

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the new look for secheltminorsoftball.ca
PawPrint.net has donated a web site to Sechelt Minor Softball for several years now as a small way to give back to the community. The site was starting to show it's age and we wanted to give it a new look and some added features...
April 23rd, 2011

Recovery from Amazon EC2 Outage

Understanding the recent Amazon Cloud outage.

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The PawPrint.net web site is finally back online after a 3 day outage due to the recent, massive failure of the Amazon Cloud data center in Virginia. Many of our customers and colleagues were also affected by what some are calling the "Great Internet Fail of 2011" This article is geared for those who are still trying to understand what happened and how to prevent it.
June 2nd, 2011

Google Dropping Old Browser Support

As of August 1st IE7 will no longer be supported

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According to a June 1st Google Blog post the company will be dropping support for older version browsers starting August 1st. This is great news for the web as it will hopefully start to push more late adopters forward and allow web developers to continue to innovate.
July 13th, 2011

Social Networking for Small Business

Four degrees of involvement every business should consider and take action on.

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There has been a lot of hype about social media, advice running rampant. Much of it disseminated by "consultants" eager to get your business by 'helping' you with social media campaigns etc... For most small business this is not a viable approach. In fact, we have seen little good information specifically catered to small business about how best for them to tackle the social networking world. This article is specifically aimed at providing advice for small business and non-profit organizations about social networking.
July 15th, 2011

XDe CMS Updates

Enhancements to News, CMS, and addition of Google + 1 button

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XDe CMS Update
A series of enhancements to the XDe CMS will help web sites get listed better on the search engines as well as on Google Plus the new social network from Google. In addition the news module has been enhanced to provide a more streamlined form for adding articles.
December 10th, 2011

Massive XDe Update

Sweeping enhancements to the XDe for better content management

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This could be the most comprehensive XDe update ever. From users to new content building wizards to enhanced multilingual capabilities across the platform.
January 5th, 2012

Scheduled Chirp Updates

Schedule Tweets and Facebook Updates with the enhanced Chirp module

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Just released updates to the XDe CMS Chirp module that allows you to schedule updates for social networks as well as on-site viewing. Just set a future date and the update will automatically publish at the time you choose as much as a year in advance.
January 18th, 2012

PawPrint is Back Online

After going dark for 24h participating in the global #SOPAstrike

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The Pawprint.net homepage during the #SOPAstrike
On January 17th at 8pm PST we intentionally replaced the PawPrint.net home page with a message effectively disabling our web site for the first time since 1994. This extraordinary action was taken to show support for the thousands of web sites and millions of people who spent the day rallying against this flawed proposed legislation.
February 6th, 2012


July 6th, 2009

Which OS - My MS Muddle

XP64, Vista, or wait for Windows 7 - trying to unravel the OS arena

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In my ongoing quest to get more performance out of my system, and thus more productivity for my day-to-day existence I'm starting to bat around what will be my next operating system choice. As much as I complain about Micro$oft I know it will be some form of windows - the only question now is... which one!
July 7th, 2009

Clarks Maritime Online

A new web site for some old friends

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Screenshot of the clarksmaritime.com site
I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Clarks Maritime web site, a home for the various nautical endeavours of Martyn and Margaret Clark (who will be familiar to many of you by name) This site was a joy to design and produce.

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