Anabrach chemical Handling

I purchased an new chemical handling device today so I don't need to touch any dangerous chemical while transferring or handling dangerous liquids.

Here is a little blurb from there website:
Pouring, measuring and transferring concentrated chemicals from a container to a spray tank is recognized as the most hazardous procedure during pesticide use both for the operator and the environment. The Anabranch® Liquid Handling System helps address Occupational Health and Safety risks involved in the manual transfer of hazardous liquids.

fiji accommodation landing page

In my efforts to improve the ranking in google for eworldholidays - fiji accommodation site. I am add many landing pages. These pages are designed to have information based on the keywords that I'm targetting. There is a fine art to these pages, I'm attempting to make these page very useful to the reader, but at the sae some try to rank highly for the keywords I'm targetting. My first in the list of many is fiji accommodation.

Gold Coast Theme Parks

One of my mates asked me to setup a CMS for him so he can develop his own sites without my assitance. After a bit or research I found Drupal and Joomla to be two of the top players in the game. After 30 minute of investigation with Drupal I was able to do pretty much everything that was required. Joomla on the otherhand still had me baffled after 30 minutes, the tool looked great and certainly looked powerful but I decided to give up on it as I needed something simpler for a non techy guy to use. Im sure Joomla was would do a great job at CMSing but if I could not figure out what to do in 30mins, there was no way my mate would be able to use it.

His first site using drupal is about the gold coast theme parks, check out www.gold-coast-theme-parks.com. If you need accommoation nearby, try gold coast accommodation as it has great hotel deals in near by.

eWorldholidays

The eWorldholidays guys are at it again building more travel sites. Here is a list of of travel sites they have build so far.
fiji accommodation
brisbane accommodation
gold coast accommodation
noosa accommodation
great barrier reef accommodation
sydney accommodation
melbourne accommodation

Looks like the new sites are very static in nature atm, I wonder if they will become more searchable like fiji accommodation site?

Twitter

I thought I'll jump on the twitter band wagon and give it a shot to see what twittering is all about. I found a couple of friends in twitter and added myself as a follower. I was hoping I could see what they are doing on a regular basis but it seems they have forgotten about twitter and have left it.

I recently become a twitter follower of fiji holiday since I was thinking about going to fiji soon, I thought I'll see what happening over there. They seem to be an active bunch, adding new functionality to the site and listening to peoples comments that twitter back to them. I always appreciate website owners that take interest in other peoples ideas.


Fiji holiday also shows their recent twitters on their home page. I didn't really think this twitter thing was such a big deal till one starts to participate in it. People not only use it see what friend/family are doing but to also to use it like a mini blog. I guess that probably what it really is.

Fiji Holiday

I'm thinking about going to fiji next year. I found this great website for fiji accommodation that had lots of great info and tops rates on fiji. But I'll think I'll wait a bit it seems like the aussie dollar is getting stronger so I might get a better deal in the coming months.

One of the islands I was thinking of going to was Mamanuca Island. It seems to cater for all sorts of stuff like weddings , romance, scuba diving. I haven't done any scuba diving before that that should be a buzz.

Side Effects and Functional Programming

Side Effects and Functional Programming - Matthew Podwysocki

One of my first posts at CodeBetter was in regards to side effects and how, when unmanaged, can be truly evil. Today, I want to revisit that topic briefly in regards to functional programming and managing side effects. When I was out in Redmond a couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Erik Meijer to discuss functional programming among other topics. In there, we discussed a number of issues around managing side effects and state in your code, and how both C# and F# don't intrinsically support such a concept. Languages like Haskell, of course do with IO monads and other such monadic structures. Whether languages such as F# and Erlang are not pure functional programming languages is another matter, due to the fact that you don't have to declare when you are side effecting (reading a database, writing to console, spawning a process, etc).