Archive for March, 2008

Finding Rural Postal Codes in Canada

March 28th, 2008  |  by clong  |  published in Tips, Well.ca

Yesterday, Alex, who handles marketing at Well.ca, asked for a list of top 50 rural customers in Canada. “Easy!” was my reply, then I thought about it. How to do it? Maybe if I get a list from Canadapost with all the postal codes and their population density I can use that. Maybe I can [...]

A Facebook Clone - Facetropia?

March 23rd, 2008  |  by clong  |  published in Misc

I was relaxing today and watching a new Canadian show The Border. At one point they were investigating some college students of some form of terrorism/protesting/revealing federal secrets/etc. To help this investigation they were browsing these students online profiles, and guess what the screen shot of the computer showed: Facetropia. Look a bit familiar?

Bookmarks for March 10th through March 17th

March 17th, 2008  |  by clong  |  published in Links

Design vs Art Blog ยป Designing a Checkout Process: 8 Rules, 7 Examples - I agree with the 8 rules they’ve outlined, now to implement them on Well.ca.
Echo3 (Beta) | Echo Web Framework - A nifty web framework in Java that makes a web application almost like a desktop application.
Airlines’ Own Sites Can Offer the [...]

Comparing Code Syntax Highlighters for Wordpress

March 17th, 2008  |  by clong  |  published in Web Development

One of the main uses of this blog is for me to post some of the neat things I’m working on at Well.ca or on my own time. To do this, I need to have a decent syntax highlighter to make all the code I post nice and pretty. I searched the web and came [...]

Rules for Startups

March 9th, 2008  |  by clong  |  published in Startups, Well.ca

Recently a few posts have been popping up on the Web about “Rules for Startups”. What’s really neat about these posts are they are written by successful entrepreneurs, they explain their reasoning behind each rule. It’s quite an insight to see why some companies do the things they do.
Some of the rules written by one [...]

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