How to prevent duplicative content

by Ryan Doom

Search engines do not care for duplicative content, if you make multiple pages that have the exact same content on your website it can negatively effect your search engine position.  It probably...


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Sunday, March 15, 2009
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Making a better 404 page

by Ryan Doom

I just ran into a 404 page on a website, and realized that it should be a standard practice to customize your websites 404 page to make it more useful to users. The standard...


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Sunday, March 15, 2009
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Getting rid of the admin area of your application

by Ryan Doom

One difference that I have always liked about DotNetNuke versus Drupal and Joomla is that the admin interface is built into the website not a separate area.  When Kevin and I researched all of the top Content Management Systems three years ago we decided ...


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Thursday, January 08, 2009
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Don't forget about the empty screen

by Ryan Doom

When creating web applications designers usually consider what the screen will look like when it is full of data, not empty.  The first impression a user has with your application should not be a blank screen.


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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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Increasing your business by speaking

by Ryan Doom

2009 will most likely be as slow for many businesses as 2008. But you don’t have to participate, a good tip for 2009 is to work on a presentation that you can start giving to local associations and businesses.  All you need to get started…


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Monday, January 05, 2009
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OS X Snow Leopard Features

by Ryan Doom

I think it is brilliant that Apple is not advertising any new features in their next operating system installment for late 2009.  It’s something other companies could not get away with, but it’s acceptable for them to do so.  They will be focusing on performance, just increasing the speed and experience.
Of course there will be some new benefits....


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Monday, January 05, 2009
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My First week with a Macbook

by Ryan Doom

Picked up a Macbook on Craigslist to start to get in touch with this hipster coffee shop, "I use a Mac I'm so cool" lifestyle.  Well, and to rock out some Ruby on Rails development and have a good excuse to do so.

I have outlined 3 days of things I have loved and hated about the Macbook.  I did this entire post, and photo editing on it, so I'm coming along.


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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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Error indicates that IIS is not installed on this machine

by Ryan Doom

“error indicates that IIS is not installed on this machine” when running “aspnet_regiis -i” but you do have IIS installed? This happened to me recently on my new laptop that is running Vista 64bit and IIS 7. The issue


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Monday, December 01, 2008
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Making Custom themes for Gmail

by Ryan Doom

I wonder if Gmail will be allowing us to make custom themes for their web based email client? This week they launched a feature under the settings area to change the look and feel of your Gmail...


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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Presenting at ASTD

by Ryan Doom

I presented at GreenStone Farm Credit Services today from 5:30 to 7:30 about Social Media.


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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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