Jimmy C's Blog

"Coming Soon", the new "Under Construction"

Remember back in 1993 when it was cool to put animated "Under Construction" .gif graphics on an unfinished section of your website. Of course, and on rare occasion we land on one of these pages, only to find that 15 years later it is still being hammered out by little guys in hardhats. more

Clemson CBBS Sets up Shop in Greenville

Watch the video describing the partnership between Clemson's College of Business and Behavioral Science and downtown Greenville.

Glad to see Clemson continuing to make potential win-win investments. The University Center worked out well, but the new building next to Falls Park should make a great home for the MBA program.

Excellent Pecha Kucha video from Aaron and Susan "Nature designs man, man designs nature." Watch it http://bit.ly/yMpWY

Project Amazonas, a River of Opportunity

OrangeCoat stepped up to the plate for the first Aid Joy project, Project Amazonas, and we got a bunch of new experiences and knowledge to show for it. Personally, I'm feeling the karma and liking the new technical know-how that came from this challenging pro-bono work. more

More than Just Good Looks, Valid Too

Underneath the good looks, OC client websites come with valid code. Here's a before and after for the recently launched Adec Group site. more

Who knew the phrase "Do the needful" meant to "do that which is necessary"?

Me (to hosting company): It might be worth checking for, or notifying, customers to update these IPs. (since the host failed to update them after a large data center migration)

Host: We will do the needful to prevent this error.

I've been alive 28 years and don't think I've ever heard that phrase.

Battle of the Useless Labels

Round One

A battle for the title of Most Useless Label. Now accepting your votes and submissions:

Sean Gaffney's Magnetic Clip

Magnetic Clip

versus
Jimmy C's "Tray"

A tray labeled 'tray'

Favorite Sandwich in Greenville

A discussion of favorite sandwiches in Greenville, starting with the Hot Ham and Brie at Coffee Underground on Coffee Street. more

Smaller and Faster Web Pages with gzip, Deflate and Apache

An explanation and code example for using mod_gzip or mod_deflate to make web pages smaller and load faster in Apache 1 and Apache 2. more

APIs and Mashups, Mainstream Buzzwords of the Near Future

A recent Lullabot podcast explained the use of web APIs to build mashups. Here's a general overview of the topic and the podcast. more

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