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The Site Doctor

A collection of 138 posts

First thoughts on the BlackBerry Pearl

I’ve always been adverse to getting a BlackBerry for a few of reasons: 1. I don’t get away from work much as it is so I felt having emails on my BlackBerry on the go all the time would be one step too far. The size of the

Employing someone 101

Stacey recently wrote an excellent brief on the pro's and con's of employing someone however this morning when I came to post it online I realised that it was deleted when I formatted the laptop for a system demonstration last week. Luckily however I have a

DasBlog RSS Feed Macro

As part of my blog’s re-design I wanted to integrate my statistics from Last.FM which monitors what music you’re listening to and generates a stack of statistics about your listening habit (see About Last FM for more information). Anyways, I started writing my own RSS macro when

Business start up advice downloadable PDF

I’m still somewhat shocked at how well the series on business start up advice was received, I was expecting one or two hits on it but so far I’ve had over 1,000 visits to the article which is pretty shocking as this blog in its entirety was

The Behemoth has arrived

Quite why I’m posting about my new mug I don’t know but hey why not –it’s all good for a laugh! Basically Stacey got me a new mug for Christmas and it’s put my last ones (largest “old” mug was ½ liter) to shame so much that

WebDD -I was there, were you?

What an awesome event, I was originally in two minds about going to the latest conference installment from Phil Winstanley, Dave Sussman (and all the other dedicated people involved with the other DDD events) but boy am I glad I went. This time I decided to take it to the

Finances (VAT, Accountants etc)

Billing This is something that we’re in the process of re-working as we have a variety of billing periods ranging from ad-hoc to annual. This is fine as long as you have some method of determining which method a client requires. Stacey has devised a very good suggestion that

New Business

Call me a sceptic if you like but once you’ve been in business for a while there are two common elements to pretty much every new client: 1. Every client’s idea is going to be the next big thing (in their eyes anyway). 2. Every client has so

Day-day running

Day-day running Evaluating when it’s best to do something in-house and when to outsource it is invaluable -especially in the case of a developer, the temptation to develop all your internal applications is great. Sometimes it’s better to outlay £500 rather than spending many hours not getting paid

Working from home

When you set out, cutting costs is crucial to your long-term success so working from home is an ideal solution, but is it really a good idea? What will happen when a client wants to meet? Will I ever be able to leave work? Your working environment Firstly, make sure