Free as in Time

We just launched a new site for a client at the University of Guelph. The Global Environmental Change Group, from the Geography Department, were looking for a simple, effective web presence. GECG members attend a fair number of conferences, and people had been asking about their website, so they brought us in to give their organization an appropriate presence on the web. Nothing too flashy, just something pleasing and professional where they could showcase their work. We hope you like the results.

CBC has cancelled one of my favourite shows, jPod. So, we at Resonant Studios have started an online petition at savejpod.ca to try to convince CBC to put the show back on the air. Head on over there and show your support for a quality product.

I’m not sure how I wound up here, but I found a site for buying and selling Facebook and Open Social apps. It’s called Appbid, and looks kinda cool. I’m sure there must be others out there.

That, in turn, led me to AppHire.com. They’re more a blog/news site for Facebook developers. They’re doing some pieces on Facebook advertising…

Which seems to be the business of AdChap, a company that’ll help you monetize your Facebook application through advertising.

All of these look worth a bit of exploration. We’ve had [...]

I’ve got a client who’d like a guestbook for his WordPress site. In the world of WordPress, what this amounts to is creating a page called ‘Guestbook’, adding a bit of text to encourage people to comment on the page, and then enabling comments for the page. Presto! One guest book.

There can be a bit more to it, though. In putting this together, I came across these two pages. The first walks you through creating a template for the guestbook page and making some changes to closer mimic the guestbooks [...]

Today was one of those days that feels insanely productive, even if you don’t actually spend much time producing things. Bigs wins; small effort. Installing Openfire, for example.

Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a jabber server produced by Jive Software. It’s pretty slick, easy to install, has a web-based admin, and just plain works. It also has a lot of features I haven’t looked at yet, including LDAP integration. My task today was just to get it installed and up and running. That took about 10 whole minutes. Maybe [...]

Testing of Resonant Studios’ next project opened today. The project is called RSSonate. We’ve got a few beta testers on board, but could soon use some more. Comment below if your interested in helping us out.

Oh, and hats off to the tester who thought “davey boobs”, at the address “boobs@boobs.boobs”, was a good test of our signup form. We applaud you.