Squarespace tip: How to create HTML snippets that don't appear in the main page of the blog

Squarespace tip: How to create HTML snippets that don't appear in the main page of the blog

Squarespace has a very useful way to customize the blog post headers and footers called HTML snippets.

This blog post includes a snippet in the footer to show a small text talking about an iPhone App I've built, and also the share buttons in the main social networks.

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18 popular searches to solve software problems

This morning my wife came to me asking for help with an error using her work computer.

When I saw the error code my first reaction was to type it in Google. The search results included millions of entries in forums with answers that did not help. The error message was very generic and not very helpful. So my wife called the Help Desk and they suggested to turn the computer off and on again. What for are they there if they wouldn't suggest that?.

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The reason why we use Squarespace

We have been hosting our web site in Squarespace for more than a year already and I wouldn’t change the supplier for nothing in this planet. What is the reason?

Low level of stress, reasonable cost, good enough number of features, it can scale without problems and they have a very good customer service. Would you need something more?

Developing enterprise software and developing for the iPhone. Is there a difference?

In the enterprise world, before you even start programming an application you must study the enterprise architecture requirements and guidelines. You must know exactly the environment in which your application will be working and with which other applications it will be sharing the always-limited resources.

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A better architecture for the cloud

Back in 2001 I was working at PeopleSoft as a technical CRM consultant. The company created that year an impressive data center in Pleasanton, California. The idea was to offer hosted web based PeopleSoft applications to the customers. In the present, this product changed shape (and hands) with Oracle on demand, but it is still there.

And PeopleSoft was not alone. This was just the beginning of a big number of web based applications for business and consumers hosted in the cloud. Today we have software applications like salesforce.com, Netsuite.com and many others competing in the "On Demand" market.

I personally do not believe in this model and these are the reason why.

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