Today is a historic day, as major online sites unite to protest
proposed US Legislation. Read the rest of this entry »
SOPA / PIPA Blackout
January 18th, 2012Big Changes for Top Level Domain Names
January 12th, 2012- There are 2 billion Internet users globally
- Starting today ICANN is accepting new applications for top level domain names (ie .com) for first time in 10 years
- Applications cost about $185k and in about 12 to 18 months the applicants will find out if the “ending” has been approved.
- Eco there are definitely 2 applications being submitted. One a Canadian company, and one a US one backed by Al Gore.
Cleaning up Apache logs for generating statistics
October 20th, 2011In a shared hosting environment, sometimes you’ll need to clean up your log files before putting them through your stats package.
In our environment we rotate the logs, once per day, so we end up with:
access_log.20111019.gz access_log.20111018.gz access_log.20111017 access_log.20111016.gz
Depending of the file size, sometimes the files are compressed, sometimes they are not.
What we needed was an easy way to either remove erroneous entries, or split a log into separate files for each domain. The scripts below help us to do that.
Some quick jQuery recipes
October 6th, 2011jQuery is a javascript library that has and still is gaining a lot of momentum in the web development world. At Insiteful Solutions, we frequently use jQuery on our projects to code semantic, standards-compliant web pages. We come back to the following snippets quite frequently, and you are welcome to use them on your own projects as well.
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Supporting your local economy through Open Source Software
August 8th, 2011The benefits of choosing and using open source software for business are many. One of the benefits, not often discussed, is that choosing open source software can be good for your local economy. Read the rest of this entry »
You are invited! Please join us! Insiteful Solutions Presents
July 6th, 2011As part of our continuing Informative Insites series, Insiteful Solutions has posted our upcoming seminar event calendar. At a glance:
- Everyone is Talking About It, But Who Is Really Doing it? ~ Social Media – Wed. May 11th
- Everything You Wanted to Know about WordPress, but were Afraid to Ask – Tues. July 26th
- I Want to Be A Star – Understanding Search Engine Optimization – Thurs. Aug 18th, Lunch ‘N’ Learn
- Everyone is Talking About It, But Who Is Really Doing it? ~ Social Media – Tues. Aug 23rd
- Get Heard! Social Media – The Next Step, YouTube and Twitter – Tues. Sep 20th, Lunch ‘N’ Learn
- Everything You Wanted to Know about WordPress, but were Afraid to Ask – Tues. Sept 27th
Informative Insites
April 26th, 2011Insiteful Solutions is proud to present it’s upcoming schedule for the Informative Insites seminar series. Upcoming events include:
- I Want to Be A Star- Understanding Search Engine – Wed. May 11th
- Everything You Wanted to Know about WordPress – Thurs. June 2nd
- Everyone is Talking About It, But Who Is Really Doing it? ~ Social Media – Wed. June 8th
Looking Through the Magnifying Glass- Landing Pages at a Glance
April 13th, 2011Our mothers always told us never judge a book by the cover, as business people we do judge a business by its website. Moreover, not the whole website, with its detailed information, but we often judge a company by the landing page on which we arrive. The landing page may be the home page of the whole site, or it can be the introductory page to a specific section or department within the website.
Google is the dominant search engine, accounting for over 66% of searches conducted in January 2010. As an innovative company trying to provide better service to their end-users, the general Internet population, they have recently launched Google Preview. Read the rest of this entry »
Lunch ‘N’ Learn Spring Series
March 28th, 2011Topics
Wed. April 13th - Everything You Wanted to Know about WordPress, but were Afraid to Ask
(overview of functionality, back end demonstration, tips and strategies)
Wed. May 11th - I Want to Be Found- Understanding Search Engine Optimization
(how search engines rank your site, what to do your site to improve it’s positioning, includes demonstration)
Wed. June 8th - Everyone is Talking About It, But Who Is Really Doing it? ~ Social Media
(An Overview of why to social media is good for your business, & demonstration of Facebook and LinkedIn)
Time: 11:30am-1:45pm, includes lunch
Location: Insiteful Solutions, 109-610 Alden Rd, Markham ON
Price: $85 session or $220 for the series
Register Now to Avoid Disappointment
Call 905.947.8235 or visit our online registration at isweb.ca/seminars
Usage Based Billing for Internet Services
February 3rd, 2011Usage Based Billing for Internet services is a hot issue in Canada, and the CRTC’s rulings will directly affect Canadian innovation and prosperity.
For background information on the current CRTC policy process, and explain of each sides case, and an overview of the long-term implications, please see
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5611/125/
and
Currently, the Government will ask the CRTC to review its most recent decision approving UBB, due to the overwhelming outrage of Canadians citizens and businesses. The CRTC is being sent back to the drawing board. Read the rest of this entry »