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I’m happy to announce Quote Robot is taking off. We’ve made a lot of progress and things are looking very promising. The goal is to be able to launch mid-end february. If you haven’t already, please head over to quoterobot.com and sign up for the newsletter. We’ll be giving away a bunch of beta accounts so you might be a lucky winner if you sign up early.

In other news, jQuery 1.4 was released and there is an ass-load of fixes and improvements! Media temple also put up a contest for sites that showcase jQuery nicely, and I submitted and won for sapphiresound.ca! Pretty stoked about this. Check out the mediatemple jQuery winners here. The winners receive free hosting for a year, and the top winner gets a MacBook Pro 13″!

Holy shit! I just wasted an hour of my life, going through all my view options trying to figure out WHY my frames in the timeline aren’t showing up. Hopefully this will save you an hour too. In your timeline, look to the bottom right corner and you will see 3 vertical light grey lines (an icon). Double click this and voila, your frames will appear.

I’m very excited to announce a personal project me and my good friend Shawn have been cooking up: QuoteRobot. The project has been in discussion for over a year, but over the last few months we’ve decided to pick up the pace and put words to action. So… what is Quote Robot? It’s a slick, easy to use, professional quote generation tool. You can drag and drop quote pages as you please onto your ‘canvas’, set your hourly rates,  fill in quote line items with auto complete suggestions, set a time line for your project, and output this all to PDF and web format. You literally cut down your quote & estimate time by hours! There’s a TON of features were implementing but we’re also aiming to keep it as simple, intuitive, and easy to use as possible. Check out some of the screen shots over and Shawn’s blog, and be sure to sign up for the mailing list on the splash page (and you might just get a free account when it’s released).

With the new year here, I’ve decided to start releasing some scripts I use frequently for myself and clients. This is definitely not the first jQuery Banners script out there, but it is certainly one of the most light weight, and easy to use. The script supports the following features:

• Horizontal & Vertical banner image rotating
• Banner rotations triggered by an object, or jQuery Timer
• Linkable banner images
• Easing & Speed control on banner transitions

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Last year, I blogged about 2009 “The Year Of Success”. Like 99% of you, I made a few new years resolutions and forgot about them within the first month. This year, instead of drawing out a long list, I’m going to stick with just one: complete and finish all of my web projects started in 2009. This blog has been all alone since may, 2009. I promised a few themes, a few scripts, and then stopped blogging. Well it’s time to try this again. Best of to all of you who read this, and I hope you can stick to your resolutions!

A lot of people twitter spam. Although twitter has minimized the amount of spammers (fake accounts), some still get through. So why do people spam? Traffic obviously, but wouldn’t you think the traffic is complete garbage? It’s not targeted, there’s no back link weight (they use nofollow) so how can it really effective at all?

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We have officially launched We Don’t Support IE! We Don’t Support IE is a site dedicated to helping the world upgrade. We do this by offering a bunch of small buttons that webmasters can put on their websites, or generate a button if you don’t want to use a premade one. Users can also add their site to the “supported” directory for a free backlink. We are hoping this picks up some speed and becomes popular among IE haters. Check it out and grab a button!

I’m proud to have released the women’s question and answer website AnswerLily.com for a client. I had worked my ass off most of January to get this site done. I’m still reworking the colour theme though to make like a little more like DailyCandy.com. Another site which was launched today (but is still in the works) is We Don’t Support IE. The goal of this website is to start a web movement against IE. I really hope this picks up speed because I am more than frustrated with IE and can’t count how many hours I’ve put into bug fixing for this retarded browser. After talking to several programmers and designers, everyone seems to feel the same and would be more than happy to put the button on their site.

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Today I am proud to have launched my companies website: Moustache Media. Moustache is a web production company which takes on clients and jobs of all sorts, as well as owns our own web projects.  Moustache utilizes our large network of web professionals to meet any web related request a client may have. The new site proudly does not support internet explorer, so if you decide to view it in IE, you won’t have the access to the main site content.

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First off, happy new years to everyone that actually reads this blog! 2008 was a great year, but how can we make 2009 the best year yet? Well, things don’t look good economy right now. Major players and analysts are predicting worse times than the great depression. Look it up on youtube – you’ll find hordes of videos. It’s depressing to see, but don’t focus to much on it. You need to live your life in the present and work your ass off now to ensure you can eat tomorrow! Nobody but yourself is going to make you rich but you. I’m only saying this because I find myself down when I see these kind of videos. It’s better to put your valuable time into work than feeling sad about the situation.
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