September 2, 2011 – 10:02 pm
I got my copy of RAD Studio XE2 last night and since then I’ve been busy exploring what it has on offer, especially FireMonkey. One of the exciting things about it is animations and how easy it is to create them. I’ll start by walking you through a rather simple (and frankly, pointless) application and [...]
December 10, 2010 – 10:38 pm
In my day job I co-run a small retail plant nursery specialising in bedding and patio plants. Recently we where looking for ways to earn extra revenue and the idea of selling on the internet came up. We looked at ebay and did some experiments with a few items, since this is the easiest way [...]
November 1, 2010 – 8:40 pm
When I started the plantality.com project I knew I wanted it to pay a reasonable monthly income after five years. Back in August I realised I hadn’t specified exactly what a ‘reasonable income’ meant. So, after a brief think I figured £1,000 per month would be a good starting place to declare the project a [...]
October 20, 2010 – 9:22 pm
Ruby and Rails development is often seen as a command line activity. I started my development activities on 8-bit home micros which even then featured rudimentary IDEs, before advancing to Turbo Pascal on an IBM compatible. So, when I started Rails development I looked for a suitable IDE. Googling seemed to show that Embarcaderos 3rdRail [...]
September 8, 2010 – 8:29 pm
So, it’s stats time again: Visitors: 374 Pages: 2864 Revenue: £0.42 (about $0.60) I’ve made an adjustment to the pages figure from this month forward: since traffic is low and I’m doing a lot of site access writing entries for the plant database, the stats where being badly skewed, so I have removed my own [...]
August 7, 2010 – 10:10 am
If you google for most plants the first entry you get is usually to Wikipedia. Now, Wikipedia is a great site packed with information, but as far as plant entries go it’s also full of botanical jargon and glaringly short of practical information about how to actually grow a plant. Other search results will return [...]
July 2010 Stats are as follows: Visitors: 196 Pages: 1670 Total earnings: 10p (about 17c) Pagerank: 0 Alexa rank: 7,219,006 So, still very quiet, but that’s hardly surprising considering how little has changed. There is one big area for development, though: Phase II is now available, or rather Phase II beta 0.9, which is to [...]
I just revisited my Twitter page and realised I need to do some more frequent updates in order to attract more followers. I need to do the same for my Facebook page, but I didn’t want to have to visit both of them to send out the same message: I wanted to post to my [...]
(The following article is based on UK practice). In this day and age it’s important to cover your back legally in any business ventures, especially one based on the internet. Here are a the things you will need to think about if you are running a UK based socail networking website. Firstly you will need [...]
Figures for June 2010 are as follows: Visitors: 363 Pages: 2015 New users: 0 Alexa ranking: 7,202,584 Total earnings: £0.17 (about 25c) The good news is that traffic has more than doubled from last month. The bad is that nobody signed up. There where two blips in traffic, the first on the 1st June due [...]