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Fredric - who has written 19 posts on Black Web 2.0.

Fredric is a professional web developer specializing in Drupal and PHP over at brightplum.com. Although his affinity for all things interweb borderlines on unhealthy, his wife assures him that his son will grow up just as much of a tech nerd as he is. You can also find him giving back and blogging over at ybpguide.com.

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Black Enterprise Goes Beta

Monday, October 27, 2008

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In my constant quest to make sure OUR sites are up-to-par, I am proud to have stumbled across (with the help of Angela) the new beta site for Black Enterprise magazine. Black Enterprise had a brief article about it on the 15th of October stating their new site would launch today, October 27th. While I hope [...]

Navicat, the BEST DB Manager

Friday, October 3, 2008

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If you’re serious about being on the web or any database-driven application, you need the proper professional tool. While anyone can go to Home Depot and, theoretically, renovate their house, hiring the big guns with the best tools, despite the cost, often is the better alternative. While I’ll always be an advocate of free and [...]

Search your server with Grep

Thursday, September 18, 2008

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Grep is a Unix-based utility that does a simple text search on files that you specify. It then returns to the screen where that text is and where it is used. It works just like the search you're use to in Windows, except for your files on a particular server.

Skype as your small biz savior

Thursday, September 4, 2008

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With the first public beta release in 2003, 8-year old Skype is a Godsend for anyone who is looking for a low-cost alternative to their home phone. Dubbed as the original mainstream voice-over-ip service, this eBay owned company does more than act as phone. Skype is a window to a suite of tools that we can all use to stay connected through small business.

Jargon: Firebug

Thursday, August 21, 2008

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If you’re a web developer, this tool is pretty well known…at least….it should be. For those breaking into the industry, this tool is a MUST HAVE. Built as an extension to the very popular Firefox web browser, Firebug allows a user to dive deeper into any page as they browse. From the Mozilla plugin website: Firebug [...]

Jargon: SSH, again, with a Step-by-Step HowTo

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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At Blogging While Brown, it was mentioned in one of the panels that having your own domain name was crucial to establishing your brand. The biggest hurdle for most people, however, is that having a sole domain name usually means looking at a non-free host for your website. While that isn’t completely true, as Wordpress.com [...]

Jargon: Port-forwarding

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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As a web professional, having a testing environment is a must. Yeah, I could spend additional money and time trying to configure a leased virtual private server (VPS), but these days, I’m on a tighter budget. Can’t I just use what I already have to create an online space that my clients can access when [...]

Jargon: Wordpress, SSH, and FTP

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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The web has often been described as a series of pipes. Data shooting back and forth between machines as soon as you can think about it. While this analogy isn’t technically correct, it serves the purpose. Many of the blogs that you frequent within the community are points of origins within these pipes. A popular [...]

Cuil is not Cool

Monday, July 28, 2008

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So, to much fanfare, $30 million dollars in venture capital funds, multiple TechCrunch stalkerage, and even CNN frontpage coverage, a former Google exec’s secret product was officially unveiled today. Pronounced like the world ‘cool’, cuil.com is touting itself as a better search engine, proclaiming to have indexed more than 4x’s the number of sites than Google. Being [...]

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