TJ Gamble

Month: April, 2009

How To Get A Great Deal On Apple Products Like MacBooks

Well, the easy answer here is you can’t.  Sorry, I know that is not the answer you are looking for, but I have a little help.  I have been a windows user my entire life.  I’ve had access to Macs, but never have used them regularly.    It’s time for a new laptop, and I’ve decided [...]

Flip’ed Off

I wrote a few days ago about the new Flip Mino HD camera that I got to do my daily video’ing.  I did my research, looked for the best deals, and made sure that was what I wanted before I purchased it.  I was ready, and decided to make the purchase. Just my luck:  less [...]

Does Education Matter In The Web Development World?

Let me start off by saying that I have always believed in the value of education.  From the time I was young, a College degree was one of my most important goals.  I graduated Salutatorian from High School and worked hard on my way to a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science with a [...]

People Are Wasteful Creatures

I was in Talladega today and swung by the campgrounds out next to the track to meet up with someone.  For those who don’t know, yesterday was the big Nascar Race in Talladega and the place was experiencing a mass-exodus of campers when I arrived this morning. After pulling into the campgrounds, I was amazed [...]

Confidence Is An Internal Force, Draw It Out

Thanks to twitter user Kevin Jones for the blog topic.  Kevin is working to become a website designer, and is struggling with self confidence issues that often come when people are first tackling a new venture.  Once the excitement wears off, the energy drain begins and self-doubt can start to set in.  Fighting through this [...]

Instant Camcorder Downgrade – Canon XH A1 to Flip HD

After finally deciding that the Canon XH A1 that I had sitting around was too cumbersome to use practically and way too overkill on the advanced functionality, I decided to put it on Ebay. After it sold, I chose to try and pick up the anti-XH A1 by going with some ultraportable, HD quality, and [...]

Quick Tip For Getting Tweeters to Follow You Back

I don’t use twitter to make myself popular.  It is not my goal to get as many people following me as possible and that is not something I spend time working on. As with most twitter followers, I typically follow people who post on topics I enjoy, link to news I want to read, or [...]

Freelancer tips on Web Design / SEO Contracts

I saw a tweet by Andrew Turner this morning that got me thinking about how hard it is to protect yourself when dealing with clients.  To really be safe, you must write an air tight contract to keep the client from shutting the project down, halting scope creep, and avoiding the other many possible pitfalls [...]

Magento – Not as easy as advertised

Well, let’s say my first dips into Magento commerce have come with mixed results.  I really like their interface right out of the box, and I like a lot of the options that they offer.  I truly believe that with a little more maturity this will be my shopping cart of choice.  However, I’m not [...]

My thoughts on Magento thus far

After spending a few days playing around with Magento Commerce, I really like it.  It was much more difficult to figure out how to create a theme than with just about any other cart I have used.  However, with this complexity comes flexibility.  You can easily do things in this cart and keep your upgradeability [...]