nil desperandum

To kick start my reading of blogs I've started listening to podcasts again.

I used to listen to ColdFusion Podcast and Weekly, but unfortunately they are now deceased, so I had a bit of a search and asked around on Twitter. Here's the podcasts I'm now listening to and a few thoughts.

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This blog round up is some what later than I had intended, but for good reason.ﾠ I've been waiting for a couple of blog posts to emerge into the public domain, so that I could include them in the round up. I can't impress upon you how important it is to read these posts.

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Sorry..... Its been a very very long time since I posted a blog round up.ﾠ

I recently moved my blog from hosting on my PC at home to extremely cheap Coldfusion 8 hosting with Hosting A to Z and I've updated to MangoBlog 1.4 with a new site theme, so I've decided its time I got my act together and started posting again.

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I was asked at work to give a bit of a crash course in using twitter and how they could use it to market our business and our products without upsetting the general twitter populace.

I spent an hour and a half talking to my colleagues, but yet only just scraped the surface of what twitter is capable of, what applications are out there and all the related applications. Having not really planned ahead the session left me exhausted and in true twitter fashion I tweeted this.

Announcing what I'd been doing elicited some interest in my thoughts on marketing using twitter and also made me think I should probably write something up.

This article started life as that write-up, but soon became more of a "how to twitter" and I ended up writing "Twitter marketing. Should I? Shouldn't I?" This will now be a series of articles on my thoughts as to how you can use Twitter effectively as an organisation.

It should be noted that I am a techie, I could be considered a Twitter power user (I will have been using twitter for 2 years later in July), but I am not any kind of marketing guru.

What this write-up will hopefully do is help you and your business build a network in as efficient a manner as possible, while avoiding annoying Twitter users. It should also help you find desktop and web-based applications that will help you manage your offering.

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I mentioned on Twitter that I did a crash course in using Twitter to some of my colleagues. They needed to know how it could be used for networking and marketing.ﾠ I was asked what my thoughts on marketing using Twitter were. I said I would write something up and get it posted.

I started writing an article, which I will finish eventually, but it was more about getting started with twitter and how to network/market with Twitter.ﾠ With the recent viral marketing campaigns that have been going on on Twitter I realised what the content of this article should be.

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Previously I wrote a number of weekly blog round up of the 100 or so blogs I'm subscribed to, but I've let it get all out of date and I've not been reading as much as I should.

A few months ago, in an attempt to try to get back into the habit of scanning, if not reading, blog posts, I set up a twitter account and twitter feed from a folder in my google reader account. ﾠIf you're interested its http://twitter.com/nilBlog,ﾠbut it didn't work very well.

So now I'm taking another look at making sure I do read more and letting others read what I read as well.

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My first post for ages!ﾠ Sorry about that....

Something quite exciting, that I've had a crack at fixing myself, but the combination of my poor java and python skills has prevented me from completing this adequately.ﾠ However, the combined skills of the trac developers and the development team for Mylyn and the Mylyn Trac connector have managed to combine to finally provide the highly awaited Mylyn, Eclipse and custom Trac workflow integration!

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I few weeks back I wrote an aritcle for the bdaily bulletin on Web 2.0.ﾠ I ended up writing a little too much and it ended up as a two parter. Here now are the two parts back to one article.

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Yesterday I was doing a bunch of testing of a site that went live in the afternoon.ﾠ Most of that testing involved making sure that there were no faux pas in the CSS that broke the display in Internet Explorer 6.

After spending so much time making sure that the design worked in Opera, Safari, Firefox 2 and 3, IE7 and IE8, I bregrudge running a virtual machine to with IE6 in it to then break the design in every browser by making it work in IE6.

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One of the many blogs, newsletters and electronic publications that I read is a Newcastle-based business daily newsletter called the bdaily.

The bdaily publishes selected business news from the north east of england to recipients locally as well as globally.

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