http://www.technomonk.eu/blog Technomonk Industries - VoIP, Web, Infrastructure Thu, 07 May 2009 12:49:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Paypal is a pain in the neck from a business perspective, albeit not as much as other credit card processing companies (where 90days can be often seen). You receive the payments instantly but then need to wait 3-5 days after initiating a *manual* transfer to your bank account. After being bombarded ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/05/paypal-prepay-card/ Many people are of the opinion that product names are unimportant. I believe they are wrong. Imagine for one moment, you have a cocktail in front of you. It is a yellowish colour. Now if the barman describes it as a 'sunburst' or equally pleasant name, then this will affect its taste. ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/05/a-rose-by-any-other-name/ Over the last few years many of the governments across the western world have used terrorism as an excuse to erode our civil liberties. If you rank cause of death over the last few years then terrorism comes way down the list. If it was significant, then there would be some blip ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/04/security-theatre/ There are many people on the net who aren't economical to have as our customers the way we currently work. They are after rock bottom prices and are willing to make sacrifices to achieve it. This isn't the way we work. Our priority is good customer service and transparency. We wont ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/03/about-technomonk-dreamhost-discount/ I apologise if I appear to have disappeared online a lot over the last month. There have been a lot of things pulling on my time both business and personal. Hopefully this is an indication that some of the economic downturn is easing. I'm not holding my breath though. It has been ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/03/time-and-money/ Its been a while since I designed the main Technomonk site. Its old, it was thrown together before any of the recent browsers were out and it wasn't a good advert for the company. The problem wasn't that I couldn't do it. I could. Its just that whenever I started changing ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/03/new-site-design-for-technomonkcom/ When we take over a project, frequently we find that there is nothing to show how far along a project is and sometimes even worse that there is no requirements statements as to what the project is actually for. Without knowing what your goals are and how you measure up how ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/01/metrics/ I first came across the concept of a 50% goal as part of a green incentive. The aim being to reduce power use by 50%, ideally without changing your workstyle much. This has worked well here and we managed to reduce the office power consumption by just over 50%, saving ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/01/reducing-consumption/ I've never been an avid blogger. Sure I will write entries, but its more about me. Putting finger to keyboard can quite often allow me to get my thoughts in order and to structure stuff in my mind better. Given the above information it might suprise many people to learn that ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/01/new-stuff/ Everyone makes mistakes. Its a fact of life. The question is how do you cope with them? [Note: version control of websites, while very common in the wider software development community, is still fairly rare in the web industry, so don't be suprised if you ask a web developer and they ... http://www.technomonk.eu/blog/2009/01/version-control/