Outlook vs Gmail

Over the past five years I’ve had extensive experience with both systems.

A few years ago Google launched email/calendar/etc…hosting that you can use for your business email (click here). Basically this means you can have your company emails be setup on the Google system through your own domain.

The Google solution has a lot more implemented functionality than Outlook has by itself. In any case, they are replacements for each other, and so I think it is a fair comparison. Continue reading

How to Build a Successful Career as an Employee

Whether you are in the lowest position, or you own your own business, there are important concepts we can integrate into our working lives to produce better results. This will not only increase how valuable we are in the job market, but it will also increase our value to our current employer. We will get more raises, bonuses and promotions as we progress through our lives, because we are constantly improving what we know and how we work. Continue reading

The Best PHP Framework: CodeIgniter

About a year and a half ago, a friend of mine mentioned a PHP framework that I never heard of called CodeIgniter. At the time, I had been working on a custom framework system for a while that worked fairly well. However, given the fact that I was not able to find time in fine tuning the system because of the work load in the shop (with the company I worked for at the time), I was not able to progress the system as far as I liked. Continue reading